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Published:In Spring 2022, Associate Professor Jacqueline Olvera, PhD, became director of Latin American Studies. She succeeded Raysa Amador, PhD, now professor emerita of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, who became the first head of the program in the early 1970s. Dr. Olvera began planning a transition for the program, based on review of the program over two…
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Published:Longtime ºüÀêÊÓÆµ political science faculty member Regina Axelrod, PhD, died on November 3, 2022, with a legacy as an esteemed professor, campus leader, and faculty and student advocate.Â
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Mariano Torras, PhD, professor and chair of finance and economics, authors a letter on treasury bills. Financial Times reaches 23 million viewers each month and has a paid readership of 1.2 million.
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Stories of Immigration, Set in Song: University Professor Paul Moravec's "A Nation of Others"
CategoriesPublished:"A Nation of Others," the latest work by Pulitzer Prize-winning University Professor Paul Moravec, DMA (left), explores the lives of refugees arriving at Ellis Island on a single day in 1921. It recently premiered at Carnegie Hall.
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Published:The ºüÀêÊÓÆµ community lost a longtime professor, campus leader and student advocate with the death of Regina Axelrod, PhD, on November 3. Colleagues and alumni share their recollections.
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Published:When Deborah Hunt, PhD '12, learned that patient errors are on the rise despite years of new protocols, the dean of the ºüÀêÊÓÆµ College of Nursing and Public Health decided to provide best practices for all healthcare workers.
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Published:Associate professor of theatre John McDermott has designed sets for more than 250 shows off-Broadway and regionally since 1992.
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Published:Recent works by faculty members Robert Mendelsohn, Joel Weinberger, Jairo N. Fuertes, Jacques Barber and J. Christopher Muran burnish the Derner School’s reputation as a world leader in psychoanalytic research.
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Published:The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Adjunct Faculty Development Grant supports the current research of adjunct faculty members with a $500 award.
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Published:The Dean’s Innovation Grant is the result of an Envisioning CAS Implementation Committee recommendation to support faculty who are investing in evidence-based teaching—pedagogy that's based on empirical evidence rather than tradition or personal judgments—as well as faculty investing in developing interdisciplinary work.
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A response to Howard Marks’ piece “Macro models only provide an illusion of knowledge†in the Fiancial Times from Mariano Torras, PhD.
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Mariano Torras, PhD, professor and chair of finance and economics, authors a letter on economic forecasting.
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Published:“How do we experience being alive?†That’s the question Igor Webb, PhD, professor in ºüÀêÊÓÆµâ€™s Department of English, explores in his latest book, Buster Brown’s America: Recollections, Reveries, Reflections—and incorporating This Old Writer: A Journal of a Plague Year. “In everyday life, we don’t experience being alive in the same way,†said Dr. Webb. “It’s not…
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Remembering Abe Shenitzer, PhD: Mathematics Professor and Holocaust Survivor (1921–2022)
CategoriesPublished:ºüÀêÊÓÆµ recently lost a truly remarkable former member of our faculty: Abe Shenitzer, PhD, professor of mathematics, who survived the Holocaust to go on to a noteworthy career as a mathematician, translator and advocate who spoke publicly about his experience, passed away at the age of 101 in June 2022.
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Published:In addition to teaching, Derner faculty members engage in scholarship and research. Here are recent highlights of their work.
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Published:Renowned for her research on parent-child attachment, she is committed to building Derner's legacy of setting the standard in clinical training.
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Published:Mary Beth Cresci, PhD, adjunct professor, who served from 2005 to 2018 as director of the postgraduate programs at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, received the Founders Award from the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (SPPP), Division 39 of the American Psychological Association (APA), at its April meeting.
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Published:For the past 19 years, ºüÀêÊÓÆµ has honored students, student organizations and faculty members who have made a commitment to pursue excellence in their various endeavors.
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Published:In 2019, Miriam Velsor, clinical supervisor of speech-language pathology, and Ryan Lee-James, PhD, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders, developed an exciting speech-language pathology course—over the summer, graduate students would travel together to Mustard Seed Communities, a home for children with disabilities in Kingston, Jamaica. They would learn best practices for serving diverse populations with…
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Mariano Torras, PhD, professor and chair of finance and economics, responds to a Financial Times article, “Talk of doing good things rings hollow at Davos.â€
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Published:Courses in jazz and blues literature and race and gender in film added to African, Black and Caribbean Studies offerings.
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Published:Unique to ºüÀêÊÓÆµ, the Viret Family Faculty Leadership Fellows Program develops aspiring University administrators and leaders. Paris-based donor Lionel Viret ’95 established this innovative program with a $1 million donation. (This year's Fellows, above.)
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Celebrating National Poetry Month: Creative Writing Professors Share Their Favorite Poems
CategoriesPublished:In honor of National Poetry Month, alumni of ºüÀêÊÓÆµ's MFA in Creative Writing program were asked to share excerpts of their favorite poems and what they mean to them.
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Published:Check your favorite provider: Africa Talk Podcast is here.
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Katie Laatikainen, PhD, professor and acting chair of political science, is one of the 10 experts quoted extensively in this piece. She was quoted in a follow-up Newsweek story on the topic.
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Published:Bienvenidos a todos and thank you for visiting the evolving Latin American Studies Program.