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Marcelle Haddix to Examine Healing Power of Writing Feb. 17
The healing power of writing is the subject of an upcoming 鈥淏rown Bag鈥 event, co-sponsored by the Humanities Center and the Contemplative Collaborative. Marcelle Haddix, Dean鈥檚 Associate Professor and chair of the Reading & Language Arts (RLA) Department in the…
Tonight, for Valentine’s Day: Love and Dreams at Holden Observatory
Holden Observatory, the second-oldest building on the 黑料不打烊 campus, will open its doors at 9:30 p.m. today for a Valentine鈥檚 Day tour. If you鈥檙e lucky, if the gray clouds of February roll away for a few hours, you might…
Deadline for Paris Noir 2017 Extended
The application period for students interested in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Paris Noir Program has been extended to Feb. 20. Paris Noir was developed 16 years ago by Janis Mayes, professor of African-American studies, allowing students to intimately learn about the influence…
Community Folk Art Center Offers Exhibition, Music, Film in Celebration of Black History Month
The Community Folk Art Center (CFAC), a unit of 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, is celebrating Black History Month with an array of cultural programming open to the 黑料不打烊 and…
Maija Tammi鈥擜rt Photographer and Communicator of Science
Photography serves as an accurate means to convey what we observe within a specific context or contexts. From its early days, photography has served an important double role in the recording and communication of science and as art form. Maija…
Geochemist Breathes New Life into 鈥楪reat Oxidation Event鈥
A researcher in the College of Arts and Sciences is providing fresh insights into the 鈥淕reat Oxidation Event鈥 (GOE), in which oxygen first appeared in the Earth鈥檚 atmosphere more than 2.3 billion years ago. Christopher Junium, assistant professor of Earth…
Physicist Joseph Paulsen Receives CAREER Grant from NSF
Joseph Paulsen, assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), has been awarded a five-year Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, titled 鈥淯ltrathin sheets on curved liquid surfaces:…
Carver Reading Series Continues with Author Alexander Chee
The 2016-17 Raymond Carver Reading Series continues on Wednesday, Feb. 15, with Alexander Chee, the Spring 2017 Don McNaughton Reader in the College of Arts and Sciences. He will participate in a Q&A at 3:45 p.m. and will read from…
Wayne Franits Named Distinguished Professor
Wayne Franits, professor of art history in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Distinguished Professor by Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly. The distinction is one of the University鈥檚 highest honors for faculty members, bestowed upon…
University Lectures Hosts Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer-Winning Author of 鈥業nterpreter of Maladies鈥
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri will speak for the University Lectures on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. Lahiri鈥檚 appearance is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Humanities Center. The event is free…