Last spring, Kishwar Rizvi, professor of the history of art, led a group of eight graduate students to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of her seminar “Museum and Nation.” Rizvi’s students conducted fieldwork there and later hosted a symposium on...
Professors Amy Hungerford and Alan Gerber have been reappointed as the deans of humanities and social sciences, respectively, for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Both terms are for five years, effective July 1, announced FAS Dean Tamar Gendler....
Jeffrey Brock, Joanne B. Freeman, and Catherine Panter-Brick were appointed to endowed professorships.
Brock, named as the Zhao and Ji Professor of Mathematics, focuses his research on low-dimensional geometry and topology, particularly hyperbolic...
Just in the first two months of 2019 alone, the night sky has been illuminated by a blood moon, a winter moon, and a super moon. Throughout time, celestial events such as these have — in equal parts — piqued curiosity and portended evil.
Ancient...
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders — known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner Jr. of Illinois — was an 11-member presidential commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of...