Academic News

Jun 18, 2003

Sarah Bassin ’04 Receives Fellowship to Promote Interfaith Understanding

Sarah Bassin ’04 (Overland Park, Kan.) is building bridges between people of different religions in Chicago this summer through a fellowship from the American…

Jun 18, 2003

Christopher Reich ’03 Determines Effects of U.S. News Rankings on College Policy Decisions

Christopher Reich ’03 (New Providence, N.J.) earned honors in mathematics and economics & business last month by completing a year-long research project…

Jun 17, 2003

Nancy Waters Studies the Use of Plants to Improve Water Quality

“My students love fieldwork,” says Nancy M. Waters, associate professor of biology, whose field ecology program has extensive fieldwork. “Classes and research…

Jun 17, 2003

Gregory LaConte ’03 Helps Low-Income Families through Summer Internship

Gregory LaConte ’03 (Wayne, N.J.) will begin working towards a master’s in public administration this fall, but already he’s gaining valuable experience…

Jun 17, 2003

Amy Emerick ’03 Exhibits Political Savvy as Congressional Staff Assistant

Amy Emerick ’03 (Loudonville, N.Y.) is quickly climbing her way to the top of Capitol Hill. After graduating summa cum laude with a government and law…

Jun 13, 2003

Professors Emeriti Bernard Fried, Joseph Sherma Co-Edit Third Edition of Handbook of Thin-Layer Chromatography

Bernard Fried and Joseph Sherma, professors emeriti of biology and chemistry, respectively, have edited the revised and expanded third edition of the Handbook…

Jun 11, 2003

Raisa Sheynberg ’04 Influences Public Policy at Population Resource Center

International Affairs major Raisa Sheynberg ’04 (Pennington, N.J.) is influencing public policy this summer through an internship with The Population Resource…

Jun 9, 2003

Maureen Auro ’03 Participating in Coastal Ecology Learning Program

This summer, Maureen Auro ’03 (Garden City, N.Y.) will have an opportunity to explore marine science up close through The Coastal Ecology Learning Program…

Jun 9, 2003

Yvonne Gindt Receives $100,000 National Institutes of Health Grant to Continue Research with Students on Processes Linked to Wide Range of Diseases

Yvonne Gindt, assistant professor of chemistry, has received a three-year, $100,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue her research…

Jun 5, 2003

Robert Brown ’03 Develops Computer Network Security System through Artificial Intelligence

Marquis Scholar Robert Brown ’03 (Liverpool, N.Y.) earned honors in computer science through a project using artificial intelligence to develop a computer…