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An article co-authored by Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stephen Tomasetti appears in the Journal Environmental Pollution.
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Aaron Simons ’22 shares what it was like to direct his mentor and former theatre professor Mark Cryer in a one-man play about Thurgood Marshall at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland in early August.
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Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang gave several invited talks during the summer break.
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Trigger Warning: This article references a case of sexual assault. Please engage in self-care as you read it. In 2015, Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner sexually assaulted an unconscious woman. He received six months in prison. Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Rebecca Dyer remembers the public trial, especially the use of his good character as defense. Inspired by this case and her previous work on moral character, Dyer decided to study the interaction between blame and moral character with three students this summer.
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Associate Professor of Geosciences Catherine “Cat” Beck and students, Sara Shedroff ’23 and Marcella Winget ’24, traveled to the Loperot Camp in the Turkana Basin of Kenya’s Rift Valley in June and part of July to conduct research as part of the Turkana Miocene Project funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Solving example problems is only the first step in mathematical research. The most important part, the part that allows researchers to establish mathematical rules, occurs when they create generalizations about said problems.
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Associate Professor of Asian Studies Abhishek S. Amar recently delivered a special lecture at an International conference on “Buddhist Cultural Heritage of India: Recent Archaeological Findings” which was organized by Savitribai Phule Pune University, India.
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John Myles ’24 has now spent two summers in Utqiagvik, Alaska, a small city in northern Alaska with a dense and unique shorebird population. As part of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service research team, he searched for shorebird nests, monitored chick hatches, and tagged adult birds.
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Associate Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas presented her research on the changing moral landscape of the federal government under the Trump administration and career civil servants' likelihood of speaking up in the face of democratic decline in a session on Advances in Political Sociology at the American Sociological Association meetings in Los Angeles on Aug. 9.
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“The home” cannot be defined by one thing. As a place of significance to billions of people, it takes on different meanings in different contexts, transforming walls and floors into a dimensional concept that is ripe for philosophical study.
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