College of Arts and Sciences
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Canonizing a millennial saint: CWRU experts weigh in on what Carlo Acutis means for today’s church
Yesterday (Sept. 7) at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV officially canonized Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old computer enthusiast from Italy who died in 2006 and has since become known as the “patron saint of the internet.” To learn more about the significance of Acutis’s canonization, we spoke with Brian J…
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April 09, 2021
The Department of Dance will continue its 2020-21 season with “Alchemy,” a thesis concert featuring dance works by Master of Fine Arts candidates Katie Nabors and Christian Mintah, and Master of Arts candidate Stephen Markwei, with additional work by department chair Karen Potter.
The concert will ...
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April 09, 2021
The Department of Sociology, Department of History and African and African American Studies will collaborate to host a talk by Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, assistant professor of sociology and McArthur Foundation Chair in International Justice and Human Rights at the University of California, Merced. L...
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April 09, 2021
Heather McKee Hurwitz, lecturer in the Department of Sociology, has been speaking across the country about the themes in her new book, Are We the 99%?, including intersectionality, contemporary protest, the Occupy movement and its legacies, and the current moment of protest—including responding to t...
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April 08, 2021
By Jonathan Sadowsky, the Castele Professor of Medical History
I often start a new class by asking why we should study history. I don’t allow the cliché “History repeats itself,” without specific examples. The history of epidemics provides some: racist scapegoating, denialism, resistance to public...
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April 06, 2021
Program: Physics PhDYear: Second year
When Ayesha Gonzales received a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship this year for her work in Associate Professor Michael Hinczewski’s lab, it came as no surprise to those around her.
“With Ayesha's machine learning expertise, the sky's the limit,” s...
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April 06, 2021
The Department of Anthropology will host a lecture with Sienna Craig, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, Thursday, April 22, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. via Zoom.
Craig will present “Kinship, Care and Attunement to Stories: Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York...
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April 02, 2021
In a piece published by Common Reader, Deepak Sarma contemplated the meaning of hair among Hindus.
Sarma, professor in the Department of Religious Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, drew from passages that relate to the topic as well as his own personal experiences.
Read the piece, title...
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March 31, 2021
Members of the ӰƵ community are invited to attend a webinar about the military ethics program Tuesday, April 6, at 4 p.m. Attendees will learn about the country’s only master’s degree program in military ethics.
All are welcome to attend. The deadline for post-baccalaur...
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March 29, 2021
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will host a talk with Ángel Mato Díaz titled “Emigración y Alfabetización: Fuentes Escritas y Gráficas” Wednesday, March 31, at 3:20 p.m.
Ángel Mato Díaz received his PhD in history from the University of Oviedo. He has served as a professor of geo...
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March 25, 2021
The Department of Anthropology will host Patricia Sunderland, founding principal at Cultural Research and Analysis, for a presentation titled “Mining Cultural Metaphors in Product Development and Design” Thursday, April 8, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. via Zoom.
Sunderland is a specialist in the anthropologi...