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Before last summer, Arielle Sperling ’14 hadn’t so much as gone fishing, never mind touched a fish. But during her internship in Ashton, Idaho, Sperling found herself hip-deep in trout. The environmental studies major from White Plains, N.Y., was the only �鶹��Ʒ student in a group of researchers who were looking at the habitat selection […]

�鶹��Ʒ student researchers met with community members recently to discuss a problem that affects not only the town and village of Hamilton, but the entire nation — the overpopulation of white-tailed deer. The students presented their findings from a semester-long research project that was an integral part of the Community-based Study of Environmental Issues course […]

Yesterday, the �鶹��Ʒ community joined South Africans and people across the world in honoring the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela.

�鶹��Ʒ students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by peace and conflict studies major Sarah Dickson, of Wayne, Penn. In January 2011, almost a month after street protests broke out in Tunisia against high unemployment rates and government corruption, the nation’s president gave […]

Where in the world is Madison Grant ’16? From Newport Beach, Calif., to Hamilton, N.Y., to Cairo, Egypt, to Brooklyn, N.Y., there’s no telling where Grant will end up next. One thing is for certain, though — she’ll always feel at home in the Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Civilizations academic program. While at �鶹��Ʒ […]

The W.M. Keck Humanities Resource Center, located in Lawrence Hall, has been transformed from a quiet computer lab to a high-tech space that focuses on foreign language learning. The center recently was renovated to allow for more interaction between students and faculty members and language interns. A grand opening was held October 24. Complete with […]

John Trudell’s lecture at Golden Auditorium was anything but conventional. A veritable man of many trades, from activist for the American Indian movement to author to musician  to poet, Trudell visited campus November 7 to speak on “Intelligence as Alternative Energy.”

Last Wednesday marked the final campus event for Coming Out Month, with keynote speakers Alexis Gumbs and Julia Wallace, founders of an oral history project called Mobile Homecoming. Focused on giving a voice to gay black women, trans men, and gender queer visionaries, Mobile Homecoming involved collecting the oral histories of the LGBTQ community.

Meika Loe, associate professor of sociology and women’s studies and director of LGBTQ and Women’s Studies, was a guest on WRVO’s “Take Care” program. In a 15-minute segment that aired Sunday, Loe discusses the history and the effects of Viagra. She is the author of The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed […]

Erica Chenoweth, associate professor at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies and associate senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo, came to �鶹��Ʒ on October 3 to deliver the fifth annual Schaehrer Memorial Lecture. The event was hosted by the university’s Peace and Conflict Studies program.