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A newly announced National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) round of grant funding will help one ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ professor to develop and run a three-week, residential institute about abolitionism and the Underground Railroad for 25 middle- and high-school teachers.

Without an effective long-term economic response, the effects of the pandemic could be permanent, writes Professor of Economics Thomas R. Michl.

The device that Associate Professor of Physics Jonathan Levine is helping to build doesn’t reside down the hall from his office, or in the same state. But he and his colleagues hope that one day, their project won’t even share their planet.

Join Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience F. Scott Kraly as he shares some of his more than 20 years of research into how the human brain regulates eating and drinking and how psychiatric medications have changed through the years — all in the latest episode of 13. 

During its spring meeting, the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Board of Trustees approved a series of appointments to endowed professorships, effective July 1, 2021.

Assistant Professor of Educational Studies Ashley Taylor has been named the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Phi Eta Sigma Professor of the Year for 2021.

Nancy Ries, professor of anthropology and peace and conflict studies, is this year’s recipient of the Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching.

Provost and Dean of the Faculty Tracey E. Hucks ’87, MA ’90 will take a sabbatical during the 2021–22 academic year to complete several significant research projects.

Professor Kiko Galvez and colleagues patented a new tech that decodes messages encoded in beams of light that could be the future of the telecom industry.

¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s administration and faculty are drawing on national best practices and creating their own innovative approaches to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in tenure-stream hiring.