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Romita Ray鈥檚 Research on Tea Leads to Unexpected Connections and Personal Discovery
Associate professor of art history Romita Ray specializes in the art and architecture of the British Empire in India. With assistance from the University鈥檚 Proposal Support Services and internal grant funding, Ray is doing research she feels an intimate personal…
A Vital Space: CNY Humanities Corridor Offers Unique Resource to Writers
While writing a book is, to a great degree, a solitary venture, collaboration can be a key element in the process of taking a work from rough draft to print. It often takes many sets of eyes to provide the…
Nicolae Babuts, Professor Emeritus of French Language and Literature, Dies
Nicolae Babuts, Ph.D.,聽 professor emeritus of French language and literature in the College of Arts and Sciences, died on Oct. 14, 2020. He taught for over 30 years in the areas of French literature and language and authored six books,…
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Training and Scholarship in Water and Energy Continue to Thrive Despite COVID-19
Entering its final year of National Science Foundation funding, the EMPOWER (Education Model Program on Water-Energy Research) program at 黑料不打烊 has delivered powerful lessons on interdisciplinary approaches to graduate education. Originally led by Principal Investigator Laura Lautz and more…
The Bio-Art Mixer: Where Art and the Sciences Meet
In bio-art, artists and scientists use living tissues, bacteria and organisms to produce intriguing creations. These works are often intended to inspire conversations and action related to the environment, ecology and the effects of human interaction on nature. At 黑料不打烊…
BioInspired Institute Awards First Six Seed Grants
黑料不打烊鈥檚 BioInspired Institute announced today that it has awarded six seed grants to 12 faculty members to advance interdisciplinary, collaborative research in materials and living systems.聽 Seed grants provide funding for innovative ideas, producing data that can be used…
Skepticism of Masks, Vaccinations Isn鈥檛 New: Ph.D. Candidate鈥檚 Research on 19th-Century Britain Provides Lessons for Today
Haejoo Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English, is currently researching and writing her dissertation 鈥淢edical Liberty and Alternative Health Practices in Nineteenth-Century Britain.鈥 She is exploring 19th-century British anti-vaccination periodicals and pamphlets to examine the rhetoric. 鈥淲hen…
Late Alumna Helped Advance Satellite Technology, Understanding of the Sun, Women in Science
Astrophysicist Joan Feynman G鈥58 was a pioneer in solar physics. Her work helped explain the cycles of sunspots, and her insights on high-energy particles helped shape satellite technology. Feynman died on July 22 at 93. Feynman鈥檚 work accurately described the…
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics Professor Awarded for Outstanding Research of a Medieval Monastic Text
Few things in life excite Matthieu Herman van der Meer more than digging into a 1,000-year-old handwritten anonymous text. 鈥淚 have always had a fascination for medieval manuscripts,鈥 says van der Meer, assistant teaching professor of classics in the College…
Stories of Service: Miguel Pica and Janina Rios
In celebration of veterans, the University recognizes the experiences and stories of student, faculty and staff veterans. These stories are just some of the many from among the veteran and military-connected community members on campus whom the University is dedicated…