Academics
With offers from the Fulbright program, a number of 91¸£ÀûÉç graduate students and alumni are eyeing research and teaching in such places as the Netherlands, India, France and Chile.
Graduate student Julie Byle is delving into a new, transformative approach to science education thanks to a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.
With environmental justice programs showing minimal success in bringing equality to low-income communities, Jill Harrison is actively researching bureaucratic causes, thanks to funding from American Council of Learned Societies.
In a 23-0 decision among voting members on Friday, the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) granted full reaccreditation to 91¸£ÀûÉç's undergraduate and graduate journalism programs.
91¸£ÀûÉç Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the appointment of Leslie Reynolds as the interim dean of University Libraries.
The 91¸£ÀûÉç is one of only two academic institutions to contribute expertise, testing and refinements to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC's) newly-launched, experimental licensing system for wireless research. The online system, which helps qualified programs and researchers acquire experimental licenses in a matter of days rather than months, is the only one of its kind worldwide and clears the way for more innovative wireless research in the U.S.
With the end of the semester in view, there is still time to refine your study and test-taking skills. The Academic Skills Program is offering several workshops on study skills and finals preparation over the next couple of weeks. All of the workshops are free and open to all 91¸£ÀûÉç students.
Alejandro Cremaschi will teach the finer points of beginner piano playing this summer in an online course geared toward non-music majors. The class is now open for registration and limited to 15 to 20 students.
Professors Alison Jaggar, of philosophy, and Karolin Luger, of biochemistry, join singer-songwriter John Legend, award-winning actress Carol Burnett, mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and a host of other scholars and big thinkers as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced this week.
A team of engineering students, using their 4.5-pound vehicle propelled entirely by chemical reactions, won the regional Chem-E-Car competition on April 1 and will advance to the national competition.