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Professor Featured in Exhibition Highlighting Work of Women Paleontologists
As a young girl, Linda Ivany ’88 was fascinated by the natural sciences. Flipping through the pages of National Geographic magazine, she would learn about the work of noted female scientists Eugenie Clark, known for her pioneering research with sharks…
Earth Sciences Professor Helping Shape Future of Paleoclimate Research
Tripti Bhattacharya, Thonis Family Professor of earth and environmental sciences, recently served as one of eight leading climate scholars on a panel to identify potential future paleoclimate research directions that will help advance understanding of current and future change in…
Ifeyinwa Ojukwu Named a 2022 Marshall Scholar
Ifeyinwa Ojukwu, a biology and psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences with a minor in public health in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, has been named a 2022 Marshall Scholar. Founded in 1953, the…
Professor George Saunders Reflects On His New Book, “The Mom of Bold Action”
“The Mom of Bold Action”, a short story written by George Saunders, professor of English in the College of Arts and Science, was covered in The New Statesman article “George Sauders: ‘We’re in this intimate tennis game, the reader and the…
Rachelly Buzzi Named as a 2022 Pickering Fellow
Rachelly Buzzi ’22, an international relations major in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2022 Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellow. She is one of only…
Jillian Scheer Named Inaugural Cobb-Jones Professor of Clinical Psychology
When Janet Gretchen Jones’ wife Faith (“Chris”) Maltby Cobb ’51, G’66, G’74 (Ph.D.) passed away in 2018, Jones considered different ways to honor her partner’s legacy. Out of all the different institutions and organizations her wife was involved with throughout…
Physicist and Chemist in College of Arts and Sciences Awarded NIH MIRA Grants
Researchers from the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry have been awarded Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) grants from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The funding,…
Native American and Indigenous Studies Program Expands With Addition of Two New Scholars
Two leading scholars in the areas of global Indigenous environmental studies are joining the Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) program in the College of Arts and Sciences | Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (A&S | Maxwell). Mariaelena Huambachano, assistant professor…
What Those Who Are and Are Not Vaccinated Have in Common
Afton Kapuscinski, assistant teaching professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Psychological Services Center, was quoted by CNBC for the article, “Use this 4-step guide for Covid-safe and conflict-free holiday gatherings.” Kapuscinski discussed the controversy…
Government Agency Features A&S Physicist’s Pentaquark Research
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) 2020 Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate (MPS) bi-annual brochure highlighted research by Tomasz Skwarnicki, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), and a team of his collaborators. The brochure featured the…