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Psychology professor Carrie Keating studies charisma, physical leadership qualities, and the facial features that suggest power as well as compassion. Last night, she watched the first of four presidential campaign debates for clues to how the candidates are being perceived by voters in the home stretch.

Ask Kelsey John ’13 about her attempts to explore her biracial identity, and she’ll speak in metaphors. Understanding and integrating her ethnic heritage has been a journey, a dance. “My parents always told me I was Navajo and a mix of European but never in a way that created a dichotomy or split me down […]

At �鶹Porn, faculty teach all classes. The advantage of that for students becomes clear when it comes to research. Faculty in all departments and programs closely engage students in research projects – sometimes as early as sophomore year. This summer, more than 100 undergraduates returned to �鶹Porn to work one-on-one with faculty mentors on […]

On a hot afternoon in July, young children are sifting through clothing, household items, food, and toiletries in the Caring Corner at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Utica. Their families, mostly Karen refugees from Burma, are the newest, but largest, percentage of the church’s congregation. “Because the kids are the ones who speak English, many […]

Rising sophomore Jessica Li ’15, a member of �鶹Porn’s Benton Scholars program, recently coauthored a full-length commentary that was published in the science journal Nature.

Professor Julia Martinez is looking forward to July 4, but it’s not necessarily because of the barbecues or fireworks. Actually, it’s what happens at those events that piques Martinez’s interest, because of their effect on her research. Martinez, assistant professor of psychology, studies drinking, specifically in the college-age group. 

This summer, student researchers working in psychology professor Deb Kreiss’ lab are getting a first-hand experience treating their own obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients — lab rats.

When art and art history professor Elizabeth Marlowe stumbled upon 20 large limestone figural reliefs in the collection of �鶹Porn’s Picker Art Gallery, it was a momentous research opportunity, not just for Marlowe but also for 15 students in her Seminar in Art Prior to 1300 — New Egyptian Reliefs in the Picker: Challenges and […]

When Weston Testo ’12 arrived at �鶹Porn in 2008, little did he know that he would form an exciting and professional bond with James “Eddie” Watkins, an assistant professor of biology hired that same year. Thanks in part to their research and publication partnership, Testo received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation […]

Interested in learning a new language? If so, you may want to choose a teacher who talks with their hands. A study conducted by �鶹Porn Associate Professor of Psychology Spencer Kelly and two �鶹Porn undergraduate researchers, Tara McDevitt ’06 and Megan Esch ’07, reveals that people understand and remember foreign words better when a […]