Year of Science
º£½ÇÔ´´ College of Arts and Sciences is celebrating a Year of Science!
A Poetic Celebration
Oct. 7, 2014
For 30 years, º£½ÇÔ´´â€™s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the…
Read More »º£½ÇÔ´´ Professor Awarded Grant to Study How Plants Respond to Environmental Stress
Oct. 7, 2014
Each year, droughts cost crop farmers dearly. They experience not only a loss in yield, but also a reduction in the quality of the crops produced. But, what if new breeds of plants could be created that still thrive even without a drop of rain for weeks?
Read More »ISIS & The Politics of Horror
Oct. 1, 2014
ISIS & The Politics of Horror Globalization, Triangulation and the Violent Mutations of Contemporary Islamism Tuesday, October 7th, 2014 12:30-2:30pm Governance Chambers º£½ÇÔ´´ Student Center Room 252
Read More »º£½ÇÔ´´ Dedicates the New Home of the Wick Poetry Center and Poetry Park
Sept. 26, 2014
For 30 years, º£½ÇÔ´´â€™s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the…
Read More »º£½ÇÔ´´â€™s Institute for Applied Linguistics Receives NEH Grant to Host Translation Institute
Sept. 19, 2014
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded º£½ÇÔ´´â€™s Institute for Applied Linguistics (IAL), in the College of Arts and Sciences, a $166,000 grant to host a three-week summer institute on literature in translation as a means of enhancing cross-…
Read More »The Science of Learning and Education (SOLE) to Host Summit on Improving Student Scholarship
Sept. 8, 2014
Thursday, Oct. 9 will feature Keynote speaker Mark McDaniel, Ph.D. at the º£½ÇÔ´´ Hotel and Conference Center. The public is invited to attend. The following day, Friday, Oct. 10, will include multiple presentations by world-renowned scholars, including:
Read More »Mindy Farmer Selected as the New Director of º£½ÇÔ´´â€™s May 4 Visitors Center
Sept. 3, 2014
Mindy Farmer, Ph.D., has been selected as the new director of the May 4 Visitors Center in the College of Arts and Sciences at º£½ÇÔ´´. She started her new position on July 1. Farmer also will teach public history courses in º£½ÇÔ´´â€™s Department of History as an…
Read More »º£½ÇÔ´´ to host Midwest Jewish Studies Association Academic Conference
Aug. 29, 2014
The Jewish Studies Program, in º£½ÇÔ´´â€™s College of Arts and Sciences, will host the 26th Annual Midwest Jewish Studies Association Academic Conference on Sept. 14 – 15 at the º£½ÇÔ´´ Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Kent. Approximately 30 scholars and…
Read More »º£½ÇÔ´´ Hosts Global Adolescence Research Summer School
Aug. 28, 2014
º£½ÇÔ´´ will host the annual 2013 European Society for Research on Adolescence (EARA)/Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) Summer School from June 16-22. The summer school brings together established researchers, who are recognized for their expertise and…
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