Faculty News

Professor of Mathematics Sally Cockburn and Sean McAvoy ’23 worked on a research project exploring what happens when graph automorphisms that are usually applied to vertices are instead applied to edges.

An article co-authored by Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stephen Tomasetti appears in the Journal Environmental Pollution.

Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang gave several invited talks during the summer break.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Jose Ceniceros was invited to contribute to a special Hispanic Heritage Month issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

Trigger Warning: This article references a case of sexual assault. Please engage in self-care as you read it. In 2015, Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner sexually assaulted an unconscious woman. He received six months in prison. Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Rebecca Dyer remembers the public trial, especially the use of his good character as defense. Inspired by this case and her previous work on moral character, Dyer decided to study the interaction between blame and moral character with three students this summer.

Associate Professor of Geosciences Catherine “Cat” Beck and students, Sara Shedroff ’23 and Marcella Winget ’24, traveled to the Loperot Camp in the Turkana Basin of Kenya’s Rift Valley in June and part of July to conduct research as part of the Turkana Miocene Project funded by the National Science Foundation.

Phil 122: Infinity, a course taught by Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus, was recently featured as a Syllabus Showcase on the Blog of the American Philosophical Association.

“Transgender Saints: Perpetua’s Legacy,” by Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor Classics and Greek Literature Emerita, appears as a chapter in a new addition to The Routledge Companion series.

Associate Professor of Asian Studies Abhishek S. Amar recently delivered a special lecture at an International conference on “Buddhist Cultural Heritage of India: Recent Archaeological Findings” which was organized by Savitribai Phule Pune University, India.

An article co-authored by Professor of Economics Emily Conover and Daniel Kraynak ’15 was recently published in the Journal of Development Economics.