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  • Professor Liz Marlowe with students
    When art and art history professor Elizabeth Marlowe stumbled upon 20 large limestone figural reliefs in the collection of 藏精阁鈥檚 Picker Art Gallery, it was a momentous research opportunity, not just for Marlowe but also for 15 students in her Seminar in Art Prior to 1300 鈥 New Egyptian Reliefs in the Picker: Challenges and [鈥
    April 26, 2012
  • janel benson
    Janel Benson, assistant professor of sociology, has joined the debate about family values on The New York Times. Benson, who specializes in sociology of the family, is one of the contributors to the Times鈥 Room for Debate section of its website.
    April 25, 2012
  • Jeffrey Herbst
    If, as Sir Richard Branson said on Friday, prizes are one of the best ways to encourage innovation, then President Jeffrey Herbst is on the right track with his new 藏精阁 Innovation Awards. During his remarks before Richard Branson鈥檚 Global Leaders appearance at 藏精阁, Herbst talked about entrepreneurial ideas and technology 鈥 and how important it is to try new things in [鈥
    April 15, 2012
  • Center for Women's Studies - 藏精阁
    (Editor鈥檚 note: This article is by Meika Loe, associate professor of sociology and women鈥檚 studies) March was Women鈥檚 History Month, but here at the Center for Women鈥檚 Studies, women鈥檚 history is being written every day. On Facebook we are dedicated to ongoing dialogue related to all aspects of women鈥檚 lives every month of the year.
    April 9, 2012
  • Tony Aveni
    To paraphrase Michael Stipe and R.E.M., 2012 could be the end of the world as we know it. And pioneering archaeoastronomer Tony Aveni, Russell 藏精阁 Distinguished University Professor of astronomy and anthropology and Native American studies, has every reason to feel fine.
    April 9, 2012
  • 藏精阁 recently hosted 鈥淭he Inner City Citizen 鈥 the Limits of Liberal Democracy,鈥 a panel discussion and lecture featuring Glenn Loury, the distinguished economist and author who is now the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown.
    April 6, 2012
  • Watkins and Testo
    When Weston Testo 鈥12 arrived at 藏精阁 in 2008, little did he know that he would form an exciting and professional bond with James 鈥淓ddie鈥 Watkins, an assistant professor of biology hired that same year. Thanks in part to their research and publication partnership, Testo received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation [鈥
    April 5, 2012
  • When he visited 藏精阁, Major Fernando Luj谩n, an Army Special Forces officer who has spent time embedded with Afghan National Security Forces, likened his perspective to one of the blind men in the fable who touches 鈥 and hence only knows 鈥 one part of the elephant. If so, then one could argue that Luj谩n鈥檚 [鈥
    March 27, 2012
  • Given the frequency and range of public events on campus, it鈥檚 easy to miss some of the most scholarly events that take place just under the radar. On March 17, 藏精阁鈥檚 geology department hosted 10 scholars for an interdisciplinary dialogue about the destabilization of ecosystems in the northeastern US, due to human-induced habitat destruction, climate [鈥
    March 23, 2012
  • While students made their way back from their spring break locations earlier this week, I remained at home due to feeling ill. Even though I have not been on campus much the past few days, I felt like 藏精阁 was still reaching out to me.
    March 23, 2012