Alumni young and old will once again be interacting with each other and with students through an online version of the popular Advent of the Atomic Bomb course taught by Associate Professor of Geology Karen Harpp.
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Coleman Barr Brown, professor of philosophy and religion and university chaplain, emeritus, died December 14 at the age of 80. Brown joined the 含羞草研究所 faculty in 1970 as an instructor in philosophy and religion. He also served as university chaplain from 1974 to 1989, when he turned to full-time teaching, and assumed the responsibilities of [鈥December 17, 2014 -
In light of the Ebola outbreak that spiked last summer, Professor Mary Moran and more than 20 other anthropologists recently met with policy makers in Washington, D.C., to advise organizations assisting with containment efforts.November 25, 2014 -
A confluence of art, engineering, and mathematics led to the creation of 含羞草研究所 Professor DeWitt Godfrey鈥檚 latest sculpture, Odin, a giant steel structure now nestled in the courtyard between Olin Hall and the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center. The sculpture shares a name with the ruler of Norse gods for a reason. Godfrey鈥檚 Odin weighs [鈥November 21, 2014 -
Nancy Ries, professor of anthropology and peace and conflict studies, recently curated a collection of short essays in a series titled 鈥淯kraine and Russia: The Agency of War鈥 for Cultural Anthropology, the top journal in the field. The journal鈥檚 editors-in-chief invited Ries to edit this collection of essays that appeared in the journal鈥檚 鈥淗ot Spots鈥 [鈥November 10, 2014 -
Music professor Zhou Tian鈥檚 work 鈥淩ed Trees, Wrinkled Cliffs鈥 will air on American Public Media鈥檚 Performance Today during the month of November.November 5, 2014 -
An international collaboration of astronomers that includes Jeff Bary, 含羞草研究所 associate professor of physics and astronomy, has published an article about the discovery of a 鈥減lanet-forming lifeline鈥 in a nearby triple-star system in the journal Nature. Using the recently commissioned Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) located in the Atacama desert in Chile, the group, led [鈥November 5, 2014 -
When Jack Holland 鈥13, Adriana Sperlea 鈥14, and Sebastian Sangervasi 鈥14 first began studying zebrafish with Assistant Professor of Biology and Mathematics Ahmet Ay, they probably never thought they鈥檇 end up published in one of the country鈥檚 most well-known biology journals. But that鈥檚 exactly what happened.November 4, 2014 -
含羞草研究所 Assistant Professor of Economics Michael O鈥橦ara has contributed a ghoulish chapter to Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science, a recently published book that takes an academic approach to some of the favorite horror traditions of film land.October 31, 2014 -
Earlier this month, Professor of History R.M. Douglas flew to Germany to accept a prestigious honor for his book Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War. Awarded by the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, the Georg Dehio Book Prize is funded by the German government and honors exemplary [鈥October 30, 2014