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  • 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 […]
    March 25, 2015
  • Researchers hold the fern they discovered
    Â鶹Porn professor Eddie Watkins published a new paper in the journal Brittonia with Rehman Momin â€™15, Wes Testo â€™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, Â鶹Porn’s Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the humanities, a leading international expert on the subject, has […]
    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 “Covalency in Lanthanides. An X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Study of LnCl6x– (x = 3, 2).” 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 Â鶹Porn 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’s thought-provoking presentation is slated for broadcast at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, February 28, and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March […]
    February 24, 2015
  • Â鶹Porn Memorial Chapel
    Douglas Hicks, Â鶹Porn provost and dean of the faculty, announced that the university’s Board of Trustees approved several appointments and promotions for faculty members. “I ask everyone to join me in congratulating these highly valued colleagues for their significant professional accomplishments,” said Hicks.
    January 29, 2015
  • Coleman Brown
    Coleman Barr Brown, professor of philosophy and religion and university chaplain, emeritus, died December 14 at the age of 80. Brown joined the Â鶹Porn faculty in 1970 as an instructor in philosophy and religion.  He also served as university chaplain from 1974 to 1989, when he turned to full-time teaching, and assumed the responsibilities of […]
    December 17, 2014
  • A Â鶹Porn alum stands on scafolding during the construction of Professor DeWitt Godfrey's newest sculpture, Odin.
    A confluence of art, engineering, and mathematics led to the creation of Â鶹Porn Professor DeWitt Godfrey’s latest sculpture, Odin, a giant steel structure now nestled in the courtyard between Olin Hall and the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center. The sculpture shares a name with the ruler of Norse gods for a reason. Godfrey’s Odin weighs […]
    November 21, 2014