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Where Is America 100 Years After The Tulsa Massacre?
Herb Ruffin, African American Studies Department Chair and associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was interviewed for the聽WURD-FM (Philadelphia) story about the 鈥100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre.鈥 Ruffin, who is an expert on Black settlements in…
12 Undergraduate Students Awarded WiSE Summer Research Funds
Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) awarded research funds to twelve student researchers through its 2021 Summer Undergraduate Research Support Program. The program seeks to promote research participation among women in STEM fields, with awards supplementing students鈥 existing grants to…
How Many Species Have Inhabited the Earth? A&S Researchers Say We May Never Know
Ever since Swedish naturalist and explorer Carolus Linnaeus developed the uniform system for defining and naming species of organisms, known as binomial nomenclature (e.g., Homo sapiens聽for human beings), scientists have wondered if they will ever be able to predict the…
The Pandemic Urges Businesses To Invest In New Technology
Eric Schiff, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and interim director of the Center of Excellence, was quoted by 黑料不打烊.com for, “CNY air quality expert: Better ventilation beats dining restrictions in pandemic.” Schiff commented on restaurants’…
Four 黑料不打烊 Students/Alumni Named as 2021 Fulbright Recipients
Four 黑料不打烊 students/alumni have been named as 2021 recipients of awards through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Five students were also chosen as alternates. The聽Fulbright U.S. Student Program聽funds a range of awards that include English teaching assistantships (ETA) and…
Rehabilitated Red-Tailed Hawk Returns to the Wild
With help from the 黑料不打烊 and greater communities, a rehabilitated red-tailed hawk was released back into the wild to rejoin its family on July 15. Juvenile A is the first of two chicks that hatched this year in the…
Assertive Communication Helps Resolve Conflict
Afton Kapuscinski, assistant teaching professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Psychological Services Center, was interviewed for the Good Housekeeping article “How to Stop Being Angry – Expert Tips for Controlling Anger.” Kapuscinski talks about…
A Good Joke Withstands the Test of Time
Dana Spiotta, associate professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, was featured in The New York Times for the article 鈥淒ana Spiotta Loves Coming Across Jokes in Really Old Books.鈥 Spiotta, whose new novel, Wayward, came out…
黑料不打烊鈥檚 First NIH S10 Grant Funds State-of-the-Art Microscope
For the first time in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 history, a department has received a prestigious S10 Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health. The S10 program, which supports the purchase of high-tech instruments to enhance research of NIH investigators, funded…
‘Does 鈥楩aith-Based鈥 Include People Without a Religious Faith?’
Does 鈥渇aith-based鈥 include people without a religious faith? Mark Brockway is a faculty fellow in religion and political science at 黑料不打烊. Brockway wrote a research-based piece for The Washington Post’s politics blog, Monkey Cage, in which he discusses how…