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Nancy Ries, professor of anthropology and peace and conflict studies, is this year’s recipient of the Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching.

As a signatory of the Second Nature Climate Commitment, º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù has pledged ongoing determination in its work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on campus and to plan for a more sustainable future.

President Joe Biden this week labeled the deaths of more than a million Armenians killed at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915 as genocide, a public recognition that º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù English professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian has urged for decades. 

The Harry C. Behler º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù Debate Society hosted its annual British Parliamentary debate tournament, the º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù Open, March 19–21, 2021.

Six º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù students, advised by Associate Professor of Biology Engda Hagos, have published research on the Krüppel-like factor 4 (KLF4) gene factor and its relationship to energy-producing processes of cells in the journal Cells.

The Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) has named Christina Weiler ’21 and Danny Liu ’23 as Class of 2021 fellows.

In this all-new episode of 13 Assistant Dean and Director of International Student Services Kerra Hunter talks about supporting º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù’s international student population, which currently hails from 44 countries around the world, and the ways the University works to make their transition to studying in the United States as seamless as possible. 

Last month, the º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù Student Government Association, in collaboration with the Shaw Wellness institute, put on a series of wellness events centered around mental health and self-care.

Provost and Dean of the Faculty Tracey E. Hucks ’87, MA ’90 will take a sabbatical during the 2021–22 academic year to complete several significant research projects.

While seemingly everyone else was growing sourdough starters at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jacob Watts ’21 was growing a basement fern laboratory.