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African American and African Studies Department at 50
Department celebrates 50 years of excellence this fall with events, reunions and more.
Q&A with magician and alum Joshua Jay
Every day is magical for 2005 English alumnus Joshua Jay, a globally known magician and instructional magic author who has performed for the likes of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Fallon and…
ASC Eats: Sweet Carrot
Angela Petro (BA, political science, history, 1995) appreciates the freedom a liberal arts education has offered her as she navigates the culinary scene as owner of the restaurant, Sweet Carrot, and…
Linguistics professor receives $2.4 million Facebook award
Michael White, professor of linguistics, has received a three-year, $2.4 million Collaborative Research award from Facebook to further his research on neural natural language generation.
M.S. Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies finds clues to unknown Arabic history
Ahmad Al-Jallad, M.S. Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies, is renowned as one of the world's experts on early Arabic texts. By exhaustively inspecting the hot, rocky deserts of North Arabia, he looks for…
Arts and Sciences students receive Rising Star Awards
Four College of Arts and Sciences students were recently honored with Rising Star Awards from the college's Office of Undergraduate Recruitment.
Climate change, humanities converge in Louisiana field school
Associate professors Thomas Davis of English and Mary Thomas of women’s, gender and sexuality studies recently took a group of students to a field school in southern Louisiana, where they grappled…
Cynthia Clopper named chair of Department of Linguistics
Cynthia Clopper, professor in the Department of Linguistics, was named chair of the department, effective July 1, 2019. Clopper has served as interim chair since August 2018.
American Religious Sounds Project breaks new ground in religious studies
A new resource developed by researchers at Ohio State and Michigan State, is breaking new ground in the area of religious studies by offering scholars and the public a new way to think about and…