Jan 28, 2011
Math Professor Elizabeth McMahon Loves Getting Students Excited about Concepts
What’s a math professor doing teaching a women’s and gender studies course? The answer, or rather the genesis to that question lies in the frustrating…
Faculty Profiles
Jan 28, 2011
Professor Paul Cefalu Explores Modern Fascination with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessed. Hoarding: Buried Alive. Animal Hoarders. A&E, TLC, Animal Planet, and other channels are finding an audience for latest reality TV about obsessive-compulsive…
Jan 7, 2011
Land Reform in Africa: Prof. Rexford Ahene Helps Developing Countries Put Policies in Place
After receiving a master’s in economics from the University of Virginia, Rexford Ahene couldn’t afford to fly home to Ghana. But he couldn’t stay in…
Jan 7, 2011
Accomplished Writer Lee Upton Uses Her Passion to Inspire Students
Within the rollicking pages of her next book, Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition, Boredom, Purity & Secrecy, Lee Upton asserts that “writing is…
Dec 17, 2010
Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem Uses Mathematics to Study Malaria
Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem, assistant professor of mathematics, still remembers the hot ache in her bones and exploding chills from one of the worst cases…
Dec 17, 2010
Book by Prof. Eric Ziolkowski Will Examine Writing of Danish Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard
Eric Ziolkowski, Dana Professor of Religious Studies, took an interest in Danish writer Søren Kierkegaard at an early age, first reading the 19th century…
Dec 3, 2010
English Professor Alix Ohlin Encourages Student Writers to Take Risks
When Alix Ohlin was in graduate school at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, she had an idea for a novel, but lacked the confidence to start…
Dec 3, 2010
Professor John McCartney Uses Political Experiences in Bahamas to Enlighten Students about Democracy
When John McCartney talks about the political struggles of the Bahamas and other Caribbean nations, he’s not reciting facts from a textbook. That’s…
Nov 12, 2010
The World Is Their Lab: Five Anthropologists Journey to Peru, St. John, France, Japan, and India
Why is a classical Indian dance dating from the 2nd century B.C. popular again? Why is the donkey, a non-native species, allowed to remain in the park…
Oct 29, 2010
Professor Manuel Ospina-Giraldo Receives USDA Grant to Study Organism that Caused the Irish Potato Famine
Research by Professor Manuel Ospina-Giraldo on the organism that caused the Irish Potato Famine is being funded as part of a $999,900 “Education in Genomics-Based…