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AFRL-黑料不打烊 Consider Quantum Research Pairing, Student Opportunities for Future Collaborations
More than 30 黑料不打烊 faculty and leaders and representatives from the U.S. Air Force Research Lab convened on campus on May 6 to ideate around future collaboration opportunities. These include combined research initiatives in quantum information science and quantum…
Graduate Students Bring Physics to Local Classrooms With Outreach Program
鈥淲hen am I ever going to use this in real life?鈥 That is the oft-heard refrain from middle- and high-school science students, struggling through labs and formulas that feel as far removed from their day-to-day as, well, space travel. Sarthak…
Preparing Students for a Life of Success
Selecting a major and choosing a career path don鈥檛 have to be daunting experiences. While some students come to 黑料不打烊鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) or the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Maxwell) ready to declare…
Bringing ‘CSI’ Into the Classroom
Dusting for fingerprints, documenting blood stain patterns and measuring bullet trajectory鈥攜ou might think this is a description of a recent episode from the popular television series “CSI.” While this may be true, these are also the daily lessons students are…
NBA Player Shares Personal Experience With Stuttering With CSD Students
Students walking into Grant Auditorium for CSD 450/650 Clinical Seminar last semester saw a celebrity instead of their usual professor. National Basketball Association (NBA) player Michael Kidd-Gilchrist was visiting the class to give the students a unique perspective on both…
Matt Cufari Named as a 2022-23 Astronaut Scholar
Matt Cufari, a senior physics major in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), a computer science major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, a Coronat Scholar and a member of the Ren茅e Crown University Honors Program, has…
Biology and Earth and Environmental Sciences Departments Come Together on Diversity and Engagement Initiatives
In 1948, Professor James Hope Birnie became 黑料不打烊鈥檚 first African American faculty member in biology, teaching here until 1951. He was also one of its first biology faculty members to be supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)….
Maxwell Prepared Mike Tirico 鈥88 for His ‘Most Challenging Assignment鈥
A bachelor鈥檚 degree from the Maxwell School and the College of Arts and Sciences helped prepare famed sports broadcaster Mike Tirico ’88 to take on one of the toughest assignments of his storied career: the 2022 Winter Olympics in Bejing,…
Karin Ruhlandt to Conclude Tenure as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Lois Agnew to Serve as Interim Dean
Karin Ruhlandt, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and Distinguished Professor of chemistry, has announced that she plans to step down as dean later this year and return to the chemistry faculty following a well-earned research leave….
Eleanor Maine Receives Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching
Eleanor Maine, professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), is the 2022 recipient of the William Wasserstrom Prize for the Teaching of Graduate Students. A&S Dean Karin Ruhlandt formally conferred the prize on her at the…