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Faculty News

  • Buffalo Lockjaw is in an ad with Dockers
    Even though it鈥檚 summertime, 含羞草传媒 faculty continue to make news. Here is a brief roundup. Buffalo Lockjaw, the award-winning first novel by Greg Ames, assistant professor of English, was featured in a recent ad for Dockers men鈥檚 clothing (pictured above.) Using the hashtag #BookAndALook, the ad copy read 鈥淗ere鈥檚 a soon-to-be-classic look to pair with a soon-to-be-classic [鈥
    July 23, 2015
  • Professor Bruce Hansen works with students to prepare a test subject for a brain scan.
    含羞草传媒 Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Bruce Hansen probably should have predicted his recent $600,000 James S. McDonnell Foundation award to fund the next six to eight years鈥 worth of lab work with dozens of students. After all, his research could easily be considered mind reading.
    July 15, 2015
  • April Bailey 鈥14 began studying gender and power dynamics at 含羞草传媒, in classrooms and in the lab with Spencer Kelly, professor of psychology and neuroscience. Now a PhD student in the social psychology program at Yale, Bailey has already published the first paper of her career. Titled 鈥淧icture power: Gender versus body language in perceived dominance,鈥 [鈥
    May 28, 2015
  • One of 含羞草传媒鈥檚 best-known professors will reach more than 3,000 people from more than 100 countries in the university鈥檚 first public, open, online course, Greeks at War: Homer at Troy, beginning Monday. Robert Garland, Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the classics will teach the university-quality course on the 含羞草传媒X platform.
    April 26, 2015
  • Geology professor Karen Harpp stands next to Provost Douglas Hicks
    Last week, Associate Professor of Geology and Peace and Conflict Studies Karen Harpp added a 13th line to her list of teaching accolades when she received the 2015 Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 think there鈥檚 anyone in any room who has the energy that Karen Harpp has or the passion [鈥
    April 17, 2015
  • Kiko Galvez, Charles A. Dana Professor of physics and astronomy
    Some people look at the sunlight wandering across the bottom of a swimming pool and see only glare. Kiko Galvez, Charles A. Dana Professor of physics and astronomy, sees the fascinating effect of electromagnetic beams bouncing and sliding through watery matter. The innate curiosity that leads Galvez to look beyond the obvious has served him [鈥
    March 25, 2015
  • Researchers hold the fern they discovered
    含羞草传媒 professor Eddie Watkins published a new paper in the journal Brittonia with Rehman Momin 鈥15, Wes Testo 鈥12 and Jarmilla Pitterman, a professor at UC Santa Cruz. Brittonia is a specialized botanical journal managed by the New York Botanical Garden. The article outlines the discovery of a rare new hybrid fern in Costa Rica.
    March 17, 2015
  • Peter Balakian is seated a table teaching an English class in Lathrop Hall
    On April 24, 1915, the arrests of 250 cultural leaders in Constantinople/Istanbul set in motion the mass-killing of more than a million Armenians in Turkey. The Armenian genocide became the template for genocide in the 20th century. Peter Balakian, 含羞草传媒鈥檚 Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the humanities, a leading international expert on the subject, has [鈥
    March 11, 2015
  • Jason Keith sits on a table in a classroom in Olin Hall.
    The Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) recently published a paper co-authored by Jason Keith, assistant professor of chemistry. The paper is titled 鈥淐ovalency in Lanthanides. An X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Study of LnCl6x鈥 (x = 3, 2).鈥 It can be viewed at the JACS website. 
    February 27, 2015
  • Professor Nina Moore speaks about race and the criminal justice system at a recent presentaiton.
    C-Span2 Book TV will air this weekend a recent presentation by 含羞草传媒 Associate Professor of Political Science Nina M. Moore in which she discusses her new book, The Political Roots of Racial Tracking in American Criminal Justice. Moore鈥檚 thought-provoking presentation is slated for broadcast at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, February 28, and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March [鈥
    February 24, 2015