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  • Coleman Brown
    Coleman Barr Brown, professor of philosophy and religion and university chaplain, emeritus, died December 14 at the age of 80. Brown joined the 澳彩开奖 faculty in 1970 as an instructor in philosophy and religion.  He also served as university chaplain from 1974 to 1989, when he turned to full-time teaching, and assumed the responsibilities of [鈥
    December 17, 2014
  • A 澳彩开奖 alum stands on scafolding during the construction of Professor DeWitt Godfrey's newest sculpture, Odin.
    A confluence of art, engineering, and mathematics led to the creation of 澳彩开奖 Professor DeWitt Godfrey鈥檚 latest sculpture, Odin, a giant steel structure now nestled in the courtyard between Olin Hall and the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center. The sculpture shares a name with the ruler of Norse gods for a reason. Godfrey鈥檚 Odin weighs [鈥
    November 21, 2014
  • Soldier and Child, Soldier and Child at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev. (Photo by Andr茅 Simonyi)
    Nancy Ries, professor of anthropology and peace and conflict studies, recently curated a collection of short essays in a series titled 鈥淯kraine and Russia: The Agency of War鈥 for Cultural Anthropology, the top journal in the field. The journal鈥檚 editors-in-chief invited Ries to edit this collection of essays that appeared in the journal鈥檚 鈥淗ot Spots鈥 [鈥
    November 10, 2014
  • This is an artist鈥檚 impression of the triple star system GG Tau A
    An international collaboration of astronomers that includes Jeff Bary, 澳彩开奖 associate professor of physics and astronomy, has published an article about the discovery of a 鈥減lanet-forming lifeline鈥 in a nearby triple-star system in the journal Nature. Using the recently commissioned Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) located in the Atacama desert in Chile, the group, led [鈥
    November 5, 2014
  • Book cover showing a zombie hand holding money
    澳彩开奖 Assistant Professor of Economics Michael O鈥橦ara has contributed a ghoulish chapter to Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science, a recently published book that takes an academic approach to some of the favorite horror traditions of film land.
    October 31, 2014
  • In a Huffington Post story titled 鈥10 Uses of Drones in Higher Education,鈥 marketer Vala Afshar highlights 澳彩开奖鈥檚 innovative use of a drone to capture the activity and spirit of the 2013 move-in day, when first-year students arrive on campus. Here鈥檚 the video from that day, captured by a GoPro camera attached to a [鈥
    October 29, 2014