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Joseph Manning 14 receives Udall Scholarship

 

Mathematics Professor Solomon Friedberg is the new McIntyre Professor

 

Students and educators at work within each of Stokes Hall’s 36 classrooms

Unspoken messages

Psychology professor Joseph Tecce, an expert in body language, interprets Aaron Hernandez's demeanor in court.

Intrinsic value of the arts

Arts for Art's Sake? The Impact of Arts Education is a new book by Psychology Professor Ellen Winner, her former graduate student Thalia Goldstein Ph.D. '10 and Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. A related post for OECD's 'Education Today'

Physics 'top paper' honor

Physics Professor Krzysztof Kempa’s report 'Controlling light propagation with nanowires,' co-authored with researcher Yun Peng, has been selected as one of the most notable papers of 2012 by the journal Applied Physics Letters.

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Practical humanities

Full and effective participation in a postindustrial society and economy requires advanced analytical and expressive ability, and studying the humanities and social sciences is essential to developing those abilities, writes English Professor and Director of American Studies Carlo Rotella for the Boston Globe.

CTSA president

Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology Richard Gaillardetz has assumed presidency of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the world's largest association of its kind.

Research Highlight

Thomas Seyfried

Nontoxic combo slows tumors

Laboratory tests show combining two nontoxic therapies can slow the growth of tumors, according to a report in the international journal PLOS ONE that builds upon and supports Biology Professor Thomas Seyfried's groundbreaking research in the field. BC News Release