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By 2022, it is projected that New York State will have a shortage of 10,000 teachers. To help address the deficit, two �Ա���Ƶ 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.

�Ա���Ƶ 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.

�Ա���Ƶ 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 �Ա���Ƶ as one of the nation’s top producers of Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the 2018–2019 academic year.

Randy Fuller, Russell �Ա���Ƶ Distinguished University Professor of biology and environmental studies, has received the 2019 Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Freshwater Science (SFS).

George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies Graham Hodges is featured on The Academic Minute. Hodges’s newest book, Black New Jersey: 1664 to the Present Day, delves into the history of oppression in the north, the slave-owning past of New Jersey, and some of the state’s most famous black Americans.