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Each year, endowed academic chairs and professorships provide resources that support the work of 91����Ƶ faculty members across campus. 91����Ƶ’s Board of Trustees approved a new slate of endowed chairholders during its autumn meeting, September 28–29.

The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center is pleased to announce Amy Leventer, Orville Whitnall Professor of geology, as the 2018 winner of the Goldthwait Polar Medal in recognition of her distinguished record of scholarship and service in polar science.

Described by Human Rights Review as a “thoughtful and sophisticated” interdisciplinary exploration, Seeing the Myth in Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press) offers an in-depth look at the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

According to “Circadian Effects on Performance and Effort in Collegiate Swimmers,” a recent article by Associate Professor of Biology and Chair of the Biology Department Krista Ingram, night owls may make less efficient swimmers in the morning.

New international agreements with universities in Geneva, Italy, and Japan will provide 91����Ƶ students with exciting new ways to expand and deepen their educational opportunities both on campus and abroad starting in 2019. A five-year joint AB-MA program with the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) now offers students the ability to […]

According to Assistant Professor of Geology Joe Levy, “The big thaw that Antarctica had been dodging has arrived.” A geomorphologist and field geologist by training, Levy recently worked with what he calls an international dream team of scientists to explore the intensity of permafrost thaw and glacier thinning in the Mcmurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. The […]

Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in Humanities and Professor of English, has authored a travel memoir for the New York Times.

91����Ƶ Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Department of Psychology Carrie Keating told the Washington Post that she was, “almost slack-jawed with amazement by the end of President Trump’s news conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin Monday.” Keating, whose research focuses on nonverbal and physiognomic elements of social dominance, influence, power, status, leadership, and […]

The San Francisco Chronicle writes: It’s a documentarian’s job to depict reality and truth. But what if the reality itself is in question? That was the conundrum filmmaker Penny Lane — her real name — faced when putting together her found-footage documentary The Pain of Others.

The May 28, 2018, edition of the New Yorker includes the poem “Eggplant,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in the humanities and professor of English.