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Ceramist MacDonald Featured on ‘A Craftsman’s Legacy’
David MacDonald, an internationally renowned artist and professor emeritus of ceramics in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, is profiled on the American Public Television program “A Craftsman鈥檚 Legacy.” In the first episode of the season, master ceramist MacDonald…
Whitman School Establishes Institute for Entrepreneurial Society
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management is establishing the Institute for an Entrepreneurial Society (IES), supported by a $1.75 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation. The institute will produce high-quality research on the political economy of entrepreneurship, educate…
Music Historian鈥檚 Work Brings New Life to Restoration Shakespeare Plays
The foreboding words of the Three Witches in Shakespeare鈥檚 鈥淢acbeth鈥 conjure up the general鈥檚 kingly aspirations and bloody demise. Their presence throughout the Bard鈥檚 tragedy is mostly known to modern audiences through spoken poetic verse. But what would the theatrical…
鈥楢 Moral Obligation to Stand with the People鈥
Ahmed Abdel Meguid was out with friends in Istanbul on July 15 when members of the Turkish military initiated a coup attempt. Abdel Meguid, an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences鈥 Department of Religion, spent the summer…
Four Questions with Professor of Linguistics Jaklin Kornfilt
Linguistics Professor Jaklin Kornfilt, a member of the Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (LLL) faculty since 1983, specializes in syntactic theory, theoretically informed linguistic typology, and the syntax鈥攎orphology interface, with special emphasis on the syntax and morphology of Turkish and of…
National Awards for Students in Auditory Research Lab
In the Auditory Electrophysiology Research Lab of Associate Professor Kathy Vander Werff, students play an important role in the research being done. Their commitment to the field of communication sciences and disorders is clear to their mentor鈥攁nd now their academic…
黑料不打烊 Faculty Experts on Holiday Shopping Season
黑料不打烊 experts are available to speak to media on the numerous issues and topics related to the holiday shopping season. From Black Friday to Cyber Monday to Super Saturday, these Whitman School of Management faculty members have insight based…
Hallas Awarded Howard Foundation Fellowship
Associate Professor of English Roger Hallas of the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded $33,000 from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation to complete his book project titled 鈥淎 Medium Seen Otherwise: Photography and Documentary Film.鈥…
Professor Ian Hosein, Students Develop Technology to Increase Solar Cell Efficiency
Solar technology鈥攃apturing the power of the sun to produce electricity鈥攈as been around in some form since the 19th century. There is currently 31.6 gigawatts (GW) of total installed solar capacity in the United States, enough to power 6.2 million American…
Two Professors Named to Provost鈥檚 Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure
Two members of the 黑料不打烊 faculty have been selected to fill vacancies on the Provost鈥檚 Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure. Appointed by Provost Michele Wheatly to two-year terms were Gwendolyn Pough, professor in the Department of Women鈥檚 Studies…