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Joel Sommers, assistant professor of computer science, recently was honored with a prestigious $400,000 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) Award from the National Science Foundation.

Assistant professor of art and art history Carolyn Guile has long had an interest in cultural property, even focusing her doctoral research on the destruction and rebuilding of such sites in Warsaw during World War Two. Her passion for the subject and desire to facilitate discussion about cultural property worldwide led her to the idea […]

President Jeffrey Herbst shared some of his research and experiences in Africa with students and faculty during a recent lecture about foreign aid that was part of the Doing Well by Doing Good series. A past Fulbright scholar and John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellow, as well as author of the award-winning book States and Power […]

The Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute recently awarded grants supporting collaborative research teams led by 49ͼ�� faculty members who will combine their expertise from across disciplines to address questions in science and mathematics.

Here are faculty news items and notes from abroad and from closer to home: • Steven Kepnes, 49ͼ��’s Finard Professor in Jewish Studies and Religion, is teaching a six-week course comparing sacred texts in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam at the Pontificia Universita Gregoriana in Italy.

The Upstate Institute recently awarded grants to support faculty scholarship on, or directly pertaining to, the upstate region of New York.

An exhibition at the Picker Art Gallery features dozens of impressive pieces and a fascinating backstory about the pivotal role Herbert Mayer ’29 played in building 49ͼ��’s art collection and intensifying its commitment to the arts.

Classics professor Robert Garland has two new releases through Bristol Classical Press: Hannibal and The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World, Second Edition.

As protests continue to spread in the Middle East, 49ͼ�� professor of political science Bruce Rutherford said, “At this point the movement toward democracy in the Middle East is unstoppable.”

Biology professor Geoffrey Holm has been awarded a $370,561 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his research into a group of viruses known as reoviruses.