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Two �ؾ��� students accompanied Mahadevi Ramakrishnan, senior lecturer in French, to Santa Marta last month to present at the 44th Caribbean Studies Conference, hosted by the Caribbean Studies Association.

A new $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will help Geologist Joe Levy study permafrost thaw in Antarctica and create a new integrated education plan for training student research drone pilots.

By 2022, it is projected that New York State will have a shortage of 10,000 teachers. To help address the deficit, two �ؾ��� professors have been tasked with building and enhancing the high school physics teacher education program.

Two newly published student-faculty research papers explore depression in young adults and gender-based risk taking.

�ؾ��� Professor of Physics Ken Segall is embarking upon collaborative research with Microsoft to progress neuromorphic computing.

The BBC writes, “Some forests are more than 1,000 years old ... Paradoxically, humans have both protected them yet pose the biggest threat to their future.”

Peter Balakian joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Theodore Roethke’s poem “In a Dark Time” and his own poem “Eggplant.”

Ellen Percy Kraly, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of geography and environmental studies, has taken up the 2019 Willy Brandt Guest Professorship in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) at Sweden’s Malmö University. The professorship brings senior migration scholars like Kraly to Malmö to contribute research in IMER, offer public lectures and seminars, and guide graduate students.

�ؾ��� physicist Beth Parks has described a new way to wring even more energy from a solar panel.

The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has named �ؾ��� as one of the nation’s top producers of Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the 2018–2019 academic year.