James Ferri has always understood how a well-rounded education fits in with the study of engineering. When he started college at Johns Hopkins University…
Growing up, Curlee Raven Holton always admired his older brother Homer’s drawings and tried to follow in his footsteps. It wasn’t until college that…
While checking into a hotel in Latvia, Joshua Sanborn got a lesson in global politics from an unlikely source – the front desk clerk. “He spoke Russian…
Jamila Bookwala couldn’t wait to turn 40. That’s because the associate professor of psychology, now 46, has done enough research in the field of aging…
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…
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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…
Within the rollicking pages of her next book, Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition, Boredom, Purity & Secrecy, Lee Upton asserts that “writing is…
Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem, assistant professor of mathematics, still remembers the hot ache in her bones and exploding chills from one of the worst cases…
Eric Ziolkowski, Dana Professor of Religious Studies, took an interest in Danish writer Søren Kierkegaard at an early age, first reading the 19th century…