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Eleven ASC Scholars and Teachers Receive 2016 Distinguished OAA Awards
Eleven Arts and Sciences scholars and teachers — covering the diverse range of disciplines in arts and humanities, natural and physical sciences and social and behavioral sciences — won top…
ASC Students Win Competition at Clinton Global Initiative University
Nima Dahir and Jackson Frazier (economics and mathematics) and fellow student Abd Al-Rahman Traboulsi (biomedical engineering), won the Resolution Social Venture Challenge (SVC) at the 2016…
Thirty-eight ASC Students Earn Top Undergraduate Research Prizes
Arts and Sciences undergraduates — including aspiring dancers, writers and historians; physicists, Earth scientists and biologists; economists, psychologists and journalists — were among the…
Arts and Sciences Graduate Programs Rank Among Nation’s Top
Five graduate disciplines within the College of Arts and Sciences are newly ranked among the nation’s top, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 edition of “America’s Best Graduate…
The Underground Astronaut
In 2013, alumna Hannah Morris (MA, anthropology, 2012) answered an ad on Facebook posted by Lee Berger, professor of human evolution studies at the University of Witwatersrand, for archaeologists…
In Search of the First Americans
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…
ASC Students Named Churchill Scholars
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…
Addiction and Social Justice: Global and Local
Jennifer Syvertsen, assistant professor of anthropology, is developing complimentary global and domestic lines of research that address prescient questions of drug addiction, social…
New Career-Prep Tool Available to ASC Students
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…