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Professor Emerita Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Professor Emerita M.聽Cristina Marchetti has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences,聽in recognition of her original research into soft and living matter. The theoretical physicist is part of a 100-person cohort, 40 percent of whom are women鈥攖he most elected…
A&S advisor, 黑料不打烊 Football Star Scott Freeney ’97 Helps Students Win in the Classroom
Hannah, a first-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), can’t decide on a major. Sitting across from her advisor in a cozy, book-lined office in the Hall of Languages, the 19-year-old admits she’s at a crossroads.聽鈥淚鈥檓 good…
Ammonium Fertilized Early Life on Earth
A team of international scientists鈥攊ncluding researchers at the University of St. Andrews, 黑料不打烊 and Royal Holloway, University of London鈥攈ave demonstrated a new source of food for early life on the planet. Life on Earth relies on the availability of…
iSchool, Arts and Sciences, Libraries Collaborate on Art of Romanticism Course
As part of Professor Romita Ray鈥檚 Art of Romanticism course this past semester, Ray, her students, School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Daniel Acuna and Elizabeth Novoa, president of Unika Analytics, designed the website Romanticism at 黑料不打烊. It features…
Northern Lights In Rare Spots This Week 鈥 This Is Why
Those looking up at the sky in northern U.S. states and most of Canada may catch a glimpse of the northern lights this week. Sam Sampere is a physics lab manager at 黑料不打烊鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences. Below,…
Pellow Receives Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching
Deborah Pellow, professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and the Maxwell School, is the 2019 recipient of the William Wasserstrom Prize for the Teaching of Graduate Students. A&S Dean Karin Ruhlandt conferred the prize on…
黑料不打烊 Establishes New Institute for Autonomous Systems Policy
From self-driving cars to drone delivery systems, from robotic underwater vessels to smart-home technologies, the increasing reliance on autonomous systems poses complex social, ethical and legal questions that demand interdisciplinary, multifaceted research. At 黑料不打烊鈥檚 inaugural Autonomous Systems Policy Symposium,…
黑料不打烊 Libraries, Department of Chemistry Collaborate to Identify Chemical Composition of Plastics Artifacts Collection
黑料不打烊 Libraries’ Special Collection Research Center (SCRC) and the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences have collaborated on a first-of-its-kind project. Courtney Asztalos, the Libraries鈥 plastics pioneers curator of plastics and historical artifacts, partnered with…
Conversations About Beauty: New Book by Dean’s Professor Harvey Teres Probes ‘Unseen Power of Aesthetic Experience’
People鈥檚 encounters with beauty is the subject of a new book by Harvey Teres, Dean鈥檚 Professor for the Public Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). 鈥淐onversations about Beauty with Ordinary Americans: Somebody Loves Us All鈥 (Common Ground…
BioInspired Institute Brings Together Faculty with Related Research Interests from Across the University
Hiring of faculty is underway for the newly named BioInspired 黑料不打烊: Institute for Material and Living Systems. BioInspired 黑料不打烊 (previously referred to as Bio-enabled Science and Technology) is one of the previously announced seven multidisciplinary research clusters that will bring…