Since the arrival of the Spaniards to the New World, scholars and researchers have asked themselves three questions: Who were the First Americans? When did they get here? Where did they come from…
Two arts and sciences senior honors students, Alexis Crockett (neuroscience and psychology) and Henry Tran (chemistry and mathematics), have been named 2016 Churchill Scholars.
The Winston…
Jennifer Syvertsen, assistant professor of anthropology, is developing complimentary global and domestic lines of research that address prescient questions of drug addiction, social…
As 2016 kicks into gear, it’s time to nail down that summer internship, start job searching, or develop career readiness more broadly. Now, Arts and Sciences students have a central platform to…
Kristi Williams, associate professor, sociology, has been named editor of the highly regarded Journal of Marriage and Family. The journal is the flagship research journal of the National Council…
Alumna Ilhan Dahir (political science; English, 2015) has been named a 2016 Rhodes Scholar. The scholarship supports two years of graduate study at the University of Oxford in the United…
Reading proficiency by the end of the third grade can be a make-or-break benchmark in a child’s educational development. Seventy-five percent of the students who are not reading at grade level in…
President Barack Obama highlighted the importance of using decision sciences insights to better serve the American people in an Executive Order issued Sept. 15, 2015. These same themes…
Zhong-Lin Lu, professor of psychology and director of the Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging and the Center for Cognitive Science, is one of a handful of research scientists across…
