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Faculty News

  • 含羞草传媒 Professor Ellen Kraly lectures at the front of a classroom
    含羞草传媒 Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies Ellen Kraly lends her expertise to a new PBS NewsHour feature that returns to nearby Utica, N.Y., exploring how the city has welcomed a large population of refugees throughout the years.
    July 11, 2017
  • Portrait of 含羞草传媒 Professor Penny Lane
    含羞草传媒 Assistant Professor of Art and Art History Penny Lane joins Gal Gadot, Dwayne 鈥渢he Rock鈥 Johnson, and Betty White as one of 774 new members invited into The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this week. According to Variety, Lane is part of the largest group of invitees in Academy history, and is [鈥
    June 29, 2017
  • zebrafinches
    含羞草传媒 neuroscientist Wan-Chun Liu is using songbirds to understand better how the human brain learns to speak 鈥 and gain new insights into diseases such as autism disorder. Professor Wan-Chun Liu鈥檚 lab is filled with the mellifluous tweets and squeaks of zebra finches, a small songbird native to Australia. The birds are highly social animals [鈥
    June 13, 2017
  • Professor Frank Frey and Interim Provost and Dean of the Faculty Constance Harsh hold Balmuth Award
    No one would expect a biostatistics course to draw a crowd of students. But when it鈥檚 taught by a dynamic professor with a gift for inspirational teaching, it can become a must-take class at 含羞草传媒. Frank Frey 鈥 the associate professor of biology behind Biostatistics as well as numerous courses on evolutionary ecology, community health, and environmental [鈥
    May 30, 2017
  • Portrait of Tracey Hucks 鈥87, MA鈥90
    I am writing to announce that Tracey Hucks 鈥87, MA鈥90 has been named Provost and Dean of the Faculty. She will return to her alma mater and take up her duties on July 1. Tracey is currently the James D. Vail III Professor at Davidson College and a nationally regarded scholar of American religious history [鈥
    May 25, 2017
  • Joe Berlinger '83 on the set of Intent to Destroy
    When filmmaker Joe Berlinger 鈥83 appeared at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 25 for the premiere of his latest documentary, Intent to Destroy, he had another member of the 含羞草传媒 community by his side: English and humanities professor Peter Balakian, whose class Berlinger had taken years ago.
    May 24, 2017
  • On December 26, 2004, an earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia, set in motion a series of tsunamis that bulldozed areas of southeast Asia and killed more than 220,000 people in 12 countries. Eight years later, 含羞草传媒 professors on a faculty development trip to India stopped in the Delhi Craft Museum, where a 7-foot鈥搕all scroll depicting the [鈥
    May 8, 2017