College of Arts and Sciences
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October 21, 2022
Undergraduate student Nihal Manjila won the nationally competitive Lynn W. Turner Prize for best paper by an undergraduate member of Phi Alpha Theta for a paper titled “Substance of Joy: Serotonin Research at Cleveland Clinic, 1948-1968.” Jonathan Sadowsky, chair of the Department of History and…
October 21, 2022
Alumni couple commits $1.2 million to establish the Henderson Family Fund Marjorie and Norman Henderson in 2005 Norman Henderson, PhD (GRS ‘60, ‘61, psychology), remembers clearly the moment he decided to study psychology. It was 1958, just a few months before he was supposed to begin his senior…
October 21, 2022
Lee Hoffer, associate professor of anthropology, recently received funding for two new projects. The first project, “Understanding psylocibin (‘magic mushrooms’) in the context of the modern ‘psychedelic renaissance’”, received funding by the College of Arts and Sciences’ “Expanding Horizons…
October 21, 2022
October is Filipino American History Month, which commemorates the first recorded presence of Filipinos in the continental United States. To learn more about Filipino culture, The Daily is putting the spotlight on Filipino American members of the ӰƵ community to…
October 20, 2022
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Graduate Work-in-Progress lecture with Samuel Nemeth, PhD candidate in the Department of Music, Tuesday, Nov. 1, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Nemeth will present “Battle of the Bands: Instruments, Mechanical Cultures, and Sonic…
October 18, 2022
Members of the ӰƵ community are invited to the Case Men's Glee Club and University Chorale Concert Thursday, Oct. 20, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Harkness Chapel. This concert will feature the University Chorale, a campuswide treble ensemble, and the Case Men's Glee Club,…
October 17, 2022
Members of the ӰƵ community are invited to a book launch for the translation of contemporary Chilean author Beatriz García Huidobro’s Hasta ya no ir (Until She Goes No More) by Jacqueline Nanfito, associate professor of Spanish. The book launch will be held Wednesday,…
October 17, 2022
The Department of Anthropology will host the 2022-23 Kassen Lecturer Thursday, Oct. 27, at 4 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center Senior Classroom. Alexandra Brewis, President’s Professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, will present “All…
October 13, 2022
If you don’t know what’s worth dying for, you don’t know what’s worth living for, either. That’s a topic of military ethics that Shannon French has explored for decades, both in her role as the Inamori Professor of Ethics at ӰƵ and, before that, when she was…
October 13, 2022
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will host a book launch for Margaretmary Daley’s Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770–1820. David Price, professor of religious studies at Vanderbilt University, will present during this event, which will be held today (Oct. 13)…