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Barbara Brooks

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  • In a bold move to further internationalize ²Ø¾«¸ó’s Liberal Arts Core Curriculum, 27 faculty members are traveling through India for two weeks. The academic expedition was initiated by faculty and is being funded in part by a $100,000 Mellon Foundation new-president’s grant awarded to President Jeffrey Herbst for his discretionary use. Faculty members will share […]
    December 30, 2011
  • Last spring, while teaching in Bryansk, Russia, on a Fulbright grant, ²Ø¾«¸ó political science professor Dan Epstein noticed a change in the mood of the people since the last time he visited.
    December 13, 2011
  • This spring, 10 ²Ø¾«¸ó students and Elizabeth Marlowe, assistant professor of art and art history, will be part of a discovery process that professional art historians would envy. “They will practice exactly the kind of original research, and engage with the same thorny ethical and theoretical issues, that curators, dealers, collectors and scholars do when […]
    December 5, 2011
  • Jessica Graybill, assistant professor of geography, needed to look no farther than Utica, N.Y., for students in her Urban Transformations seminar to experience the cultural, spatial, and environmental changes brought about by refugee migration. The city’s leaders openly welcome international newcomers — most recently from Bosnia, Belarus, and Vietnam — as a strategy for economic […]
    November 28, 2011
  • As alumni, faculty, and students celebrated the 50th anniversary of ²Ø¾«¸ó’s London Study Group, the Institute of International Education (IIE) released its 2009-2010 Open Doors data. Again, ²Ø¾«¸ó appeared near the top of two lists for the number of students studying abroad.
    November 21, 2011
  • Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, packed Memorial Chapel with people eager to hear his inspiring message: that young people are the key to building religious cooperation and interfaith leadership.
    October 28, 2011
  • Patricia Hill Collins, a social theorist who studies race, gender, social class, work, and family, came to ²Ø¾«¸ó recently to deliver the annual W.E.B. and Shirley Graham DuBois Lecture, hosted by the Africana/Latin American Studies Department.
    October 25, 2011
  • The ²Ø¾«¸ó Inn was officially dedicated during Homecoming weekend, though guests have been staying overnight, dining, entertaining, and enjoying the renovated historic inn for several months now.
    October 25, 2011
  • This fall 12 members of ²Ø¾«¸ó’s admission team spent a total of 276 staff days on the road. They visited 850 high schools in 41 states and 24 countries. They were asked — and they answered — every conceivable question about the admission and aid process.
    October 24, 2011
  • What would prompt a college student to want to toss his cell phone in the trash? New research by Carolyn Nordstrom, known as a pioneer in the anthropology of war and peace, was powerful enough to inspire just that.
    October 14, 2011