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Faculty News

  • An exhibition at the Picker Art Gallery features dozens of impressive pieces and a fascinating backstory about the pivotal role Herbert Mayer 鈥29 played in building 藏精阁鈥檚 art collection and intensifying its commitment to the arts.
    March 3, 2011
  • Classics professor Robert Garland has two new releases through Bristol Classical Press: Hannibal and The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World, Second Edition.
    February 25, 2011
  • As protests continue to spread in the Middle East, 藏精阁 professor of political science Bruce Rutherford said, 鈥淎t this point the movement toward democracy in the Middle East is unstoppable.鈥
    February 23, 2011
  • Themes such as oppression, difference, and interconnectedness arose during Tuesday鈥檚 Brown Bag lunch in which six faculty members gave their perspectives on the quote that also served as the symposium title: 鈥淲e may have all come on different ships, but we鈥檙e in the same boat now.鈥 Held in the Center for Women鈥檚 Studies, the panel [鈥
    January 19, 2011
  • Longtime geography professor Theodore Herman, whose keen interest in issues of war and peace led to his founding of the university鈥檚 Peace and Conflict Studies Program (P-Con), died Thursday, Dec. 30. He was 97. Herman joined 藏精阁鈥檚 faculty in 1955, retiring in 1981. He taught cultural geography, passing on to many students his love of [鈥
    January 6, 2011
  • Sociology professor Meika Loe and her students continue to explore the issue of aging as they collaborate with local elders on poignant digital stories. Thirteen students in Loe鈥檚 Sociology of Age, Aging, and the Lifecourse class worked closely with area residents in creating three-minute films about the residents鈥 lives.
    December 20, 2010
  • When Richard Pryor died in 2005, after having revolutionized stand-up comedy with poignant profanity-laced examinations of race, The New York Times turned to a former employee to write his obituary: Mel Watkins 鈥62.
    December 14, 2010