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‘Racism and the Fallacy of a Few Bad Apples’
Danielle Smith is a professor of African American studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program. “We are witnesses of the monumental transition from the American narrative of individual racism, perpetrated…
Nine Faculty Members Honored with Teaching Recognition Award
Nine faculty members were announced in May as recipients of the 2019-20 Meredith Teaching Recognition Award. Seven faculty members were awarded in the Early Performance category: Walter Freeman, Juliet Golden, Jennifer Grygiel, Fatma Sonmez-Leopold, Shannon Sweeney, Po Tung (Douglas) Yung…
Hawk Nest Cam Moves to Hinds Hall, Chronicling Life of University’s Resident Red-Tailed Hawks and Their Chicks
The new pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) hawk nest camera installed in January 2020 has moved from the roof of the Life Science Complex to Hinds Hall through the generosity of Anne Marie Patti Higgins ’76, G’90, who established ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Red-Tailed Hawk…
Dana Olwan Receives 2020 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award
The last decade has marked a period of rapid political and economic change in the Middle East and North Africa. Among those are growing demands for marriage rights for women in Arab and Muslim cultures. Until recently, the right to…
Professor Karson Finds Important Connection Between Geological and Biological Processes
Did you know that over 70 percent of the Earth’s volcanic activity happens on the seafloor along underwater mountain ranges called mid-ocean ridges (MOR)? Lava flows are fed by subsurface magma chambers that heat the rocks and emit large amounts…
The Physics Behind Tissue Flow in the Embryo
A group of physicists from ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ recently teamed up with researchers from Columbia University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering to study the developing tissue flow in an embryo that has many similar genes and cell behaviors to that of a…
Members of the University Community Honored with 2020 Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence
Several members of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ community have been honored with Chancellor’s Citations for Excellence as part of the 2020 One University Awards. The Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence recognizes members of the University community who have made invaluable contributions to…
Danagogo, Koss Named Class of 2021 Senior Class Marshals
The Division of Enrollment and the Student Experience (ESE) announced today the selection of Alaba Anna Tam Danagogo and Paige Koss as the Senior Class Marshals for the Class of 2021. As Senior Class Marshals, Danagogo and Koss will represent…
Read Top Undergraduate Writing in ‘Intertext’
The Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition has released the 2020 edition of the student-run magazine, “Intertext.” The publication, completed by students working remotely due to COVID-19, features stories written by students enrolled in various WRT courses. The project…
Students Update Indigenous Artists’ Wikipedia Entries
Have you ever scrolled through a Wikipedia page and wondered who wrote the information and if it is accurate? The content for this free online encyclopedia is written collaboratively by the people who use it, making reliability dependent upon its…