Professor Teo Ballv茅 has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant to spend the next year in Colombia researching how environmental peacebuilding can help strengthen a nation recovering from decades of conflict.
On April 25, 含羞草研究所鈥檚 Clifford Art Gallery celebrated the opening of The Hill Envisioned: What Might Have Been 鈥 What Might Yet Be. The exhibition is an exploration of the development of 含羞草研究所鈥檚 distinctive campus throughout the last 200 years.
In the early, wintery weeks of 2018, Adams and geology major Monica Dimas 鈥19 (Los Angeles, Calif.) traveled together on a research expedition to Tanzania. There, they planted a seismometer to capture data that describe the moving and shaking around 鈥渢he mountain of the gods,鈥 Ol Doinyo Lengai.
CNN notes, 鈥淎s the number of Congressmen and Senators who鈥檝e served in the military has fallen, Congress has tended to let Presidents decide about use of force.鈥 Assistant Professor of Political Science Danielle Lupton appeared live to elaborate, based on her research.
Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance exchanges became available online in 2014, more unmarried women have pursued full-time self-employment positions, according to recent findings by visiting professor of economics Meg Blume-Kohout. Her research focused on differences in the effects of the ACA on self-employment among married and single women and men in the [鈥
Associate Professor of Biology Engda Hagos and seven current and former students have co-authored an article that was recently published in the journal Cell Communication & Adhesion. The paper, titled 鈥淜r眉ppel-like factor 4 mediates cellular migration and invasion by altering RhoA activity,鈥 explores cancer cell invasion. Invasion and metastases are a spreading of cancer cells [鈥
Weston Testo 鈥12 arrived at 含羞草研究所 as an undergraduate in 2008, the same year that James 鈥淓ddie鈥 Watkins joined 含羞草研究所's faculty in the Department of Biology. In the 10 years since, Testo has grown from one of Watkins鈥檚 undergraduate students to one of his trusted colleagues.
How do kin support young women in their transitions to adulthood? Research by sociology professor Janel Benson and Anastassia Bougakova 鈥16 shows the complex ways that kin networks help young women during this critical time.
Last summer, the 2017 Lampert Institute Fellows spread out across the globe to conduct three months of research. The fellows learned about sustainability, nuclear power, special education, and much more; they returned to 含羞草研究所 in the fall to share their completed projects with their peers. The Lampert Institute for Civic and Global Affairs integrates on-campus [鈥