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Jay Geller, the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies, will give the keynote lecture at the annual conference of the University College London's Institute of Jewish Studies on June 17. This year's subject of the conference is the life and work of Gershom Scholem, one the leading Jewish think...

Professor Ron Wilson has received praise throughout his career as an actor, director, playwright, fight choreographer, musician and teacher. Now, he’s gaining fame—or infamy, as he calls it—as an artist, due to the recent attention his drawings received on the popular website Reddit. Work by Wilson...

���ϳԹ��� political scientist Karen Beckwith received a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to the United Kingdom. She will spend six months next year in Scotland and attend political science meetings in England and Spain. Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor of Pol...

Nicole Pucci remembers what it felt like to not fit in during middle school. “No one feels like they belong. It is an awkward stage where you are trying to figure out how to relate to others.” Amy Przeworski reached her adult height of 5 feet 9 inches in sixth grade and struggled to blend in with c...

An accomplished organist, Alanna Ropchock’s performances for religious services and festivals fueled a curiosity for liturgical­­ music history. From that interest, Josquin des Prez’s Missa Pange lingua, an important Renaissance mass for the celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi, became the top...

Anthropology’s Eileen Anderson-Fye started the academic year by giving the first-ever faculty address to the incoming undergraduate class. She finished it by becoming the only person in university history to win its top award for undergraduate teaching 12 months after claiming the campus prize for ...

For Mary Grimm, writing is all about creativity. An associate professor of English, she teaches courses that demand imagination: fiction writing, urban fantasy, graphic novel, science fiction, and contemporary American literature. But her favorite to teach is the aptly named creative writing course,...

Chemistry graduate student Jim Heckler won the International Precious Metals Institute's Johnson Matthey Graduate Student Award for his study of precious metals. Heckler is a member of associate professor of chemistry Thomas Gray's lab, which focuses on the design of novel and useful complexes of go...

The Spring Semester in Review Exhibition will take place April 29-May 3 at the Art Studio Gallery, featuring works of architecture, ceramics, painting, drawing, design, photography, enameling, jewelry and textiles. The exhibition will kick off April 29 with an opening reception from 5 to 7:30 p.m. ...

The College of Arts and Sciences has narrowed its search to four candidates for the next director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities. Each candidate will travel to ���ϳԹ��� over the next two weeks and, during his or her stay, will make a presentation on goals for “Current and Fu...