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The Society of Italian Historical Studies has awarded Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley the 2019 Cappadocia Prize for Best Unpublished Manuscript. She received this award for her doctoral dissertation, "Animal Empires: The Perfection of Nature between Europe and the Americas, 1492-1630," completed at Stanford University in 2018.

The Mindful Elite - Mobilizing from the Inside Out by Assistant Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas is a sociological account of the spread of mindfulness in science, healthcare, education, business, and the military.

Forecasting Private Consumption with Google Trends Data, a paper co-authored Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, and alumnus Jaemin Woo ’17, appeared in the Journal of Forecasting in October.

Scientific American published an essay titled How Capital Influences Attitudes toward Capital Punishment by Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams in which she explained, “When people think the economy is poor, support for the death penalty rise.”

A story published by the Florida Museum of Natural History about a 37-year survey of monarch populations in North Central Florida shows that caterpillars and butterflies have been declining since 1985 and have dropped by 80 percent since 2005.

Approximately 30 students and parents had the unusual opportunity to see more than two dozen northern saw-whet owls on college land beyond the glen.

A paper co-authored by Assistant Professor of Biology Rhea Datta was recently published in the peer reviewed journal eLife. “Ancient mechanisms for the evolution of the Bicoid homeodomain's function in fly development” found that two mutations that arose 140 million years ago changed the function of a critical developmental gene, which now regulates development of the head and other structures in virtually all species of present-day flies.

Oxford University Press has published Perpetua Athlete of God by Edward North Professor of Classics Emerita Barbara K. Gold. This major new investigation of an important early Christian martyr confronts contemporary questions of gender, religion, and martyrdom, according to the publisher.

Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, was interviewed by American Public Media's Marketplace senior reporter Tracey Samuelson on research released by the Boston Federal Reserve that showed that “historically, a low unemployment rate can signal trouble for the economy.”