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Given the frequency and range of public events on campus, it’s easy to miss some of the most scholarly events that take place just under the radar. On March 17, �IJʿ���’s geology department hosted 10 scholars for an interdisciplinary dialogue about the destabilization of ecosystems in the northeastern US, due to human-induced habitat destruction, climate […]

Ken Belanger, Raab Family Chair and associate professor of biology, has received another prestigious grant that builds on the biology department’s momentum and further expands the research opportunities on campus for undergraduate biology students.

“Understanding the role that church forests play in the provision of ecosystem services is critical,” wrote �IJʿ��� biology professor Catherine Cardelús and two colleagues in a letter published in Science, the world’s leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.

Two �IJʿ��� professors — Rebecca Miller Ammerman, classics, and Randy Fuller, biology — along with seven collaborative partners across the globe, received major research grants from �IJʿ���’s Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute. Both projects, as envisioned by Harvey M. Picker ’36 when he established the institute in 2006, extend the reach and resources of �IJʿ��� faculty members […]

When a businessman in the village of Hamilton had a question about how best to gauge employees’ abilities, he turned to a �IJʿ��� faculty member for advice. That request has turned into an interesting collaborative project involving a student, a professor, and an innkeeper.

In the past week, �IJʿ��� faculty answered the call to journalists who sought out qualified experts. As 2012 approaches, journalists are calling on Professor Anthony Aveni for his insights into the Mayan calendar. Bookshelves and movie theaters are full of prophecies, theories, and predictions that this date marks the end of the world, or […]

Kevin M. Carlsmith, a highly regarded �IJʿ��� professor and researcher who battled cancer for the past three years, died Nov. 19 in his boyhood home in California surrounded by members of his family. He was 44.

David K. Lewis, a chemistry professor at �IJʿ��� for more than 25 years who now teaches at Connecticut College, has been awarded the American Chemical Society’s Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution.

Shujing Wang ’12 and Daniel Michev ’14 were both excited and nervous when presenting the results of their summer research projects to a classroom full of students last week.

It’s hard to imagine the common earthworm as an “alien invader,” but those near �IJʿ��� are not native to North America, and it’s been found that they could be harmful to the environment.