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(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Kate Preziosi ’10) Two dramatically different exhibitions in the Picker Art Gallery each deal with the common theme of challenging conventional stereotypes. In Of Someone and Something, associate art and art history professor Linn Underhill displays selections from seven major photographic series that she has created since the […]

In an opinion article featured this week on Foreign Policy magazine’s website, peace and conflict studies professor Daniel Monk and postdoctoral fellow Daniel Levine offer their perspectives on the Middle East peace process. Monk and Levine argue that the US debates surrounding Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking are based upon outdated understandings of domestic Israeli politics.

As an economics graduate student in the early ’80s, Ulla Grapard was encouraged to pursue a subject outside the field to round out her studies. But when she mentioned women’s studies as a topic, her professor said, “What?” and then, “No.” But she was doing a ton of reading about women’s issues, attending talks and […]

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Kate Preziosi ’10) The confocal microscope that lives in a narrow, nondescript room in Olin Hall is proving to be an invaluable new addition to the Biology Department that will open doors for student and faculty researchers alike. The microscope, secured through a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant […]

Marilyn Thie, professor of philosophy, religion, and women’s studies, awarded inaugural Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement.

Catherine Cardelús’s passionate interest in tropical biodiversity — one that takes her to rain forest canopies 150 feet above ground — sprouted from a college course in plant biology. Cardelús, assistant professor of biology, was so intrigued by a professor’s lecture about rain forest diversity that she felt compelled to see it firsthand. So fresh […]

In a recent 60 Minutes segment about the 1915 mass deportation and massacre of Armenians by Turks, professor Peter Balakian traveled with a CBS News crew to a region of Syria known as the Armenian Auschwitz. “As many as 450,000 Armenians died here,” Balakian, a leading scholar on the Armenian genocide, told 60 Minutes correspondent […]

������ faculty members will collaborate with professors from around the world and the nation on research projects funded by the university’s Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute. The institute director, biology professor Damhnait McHugh, recently announced the latest grants awarded by the institute.

It is sometimes a phone call or a conversation during Reunion, more often an e-mail with a link to a newly published paper, news of a recent achievement, or a photo or two from a research trip. But it happens regularly, these re-connections between alumni and faculty members, and it is gratifying for both parties.

Even though the maple syrup you drizzle on your stack of pancakes may taste as sweet as ever, the tasty condiment is actually undergoing changes that may shed light on the impact of climate change. According to a new study by William Peck, associate professor of geology, and student co-author Stephanie Tubman’08, the burning of […]