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An article by Shreya Kanakiya, visiting assistant professor of geosciences, was published in the October 2024 issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research—Earth Surface.

Associate Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Aaron Strong were awarded a National Science Foundation grant from the Sociology Program. Under the five-year $346,149 grant, they will study rural community perceptions of climate action pathways in New York, New Zealand, and Sweden.

Learn about just a few of our students’ and faculty members' accomplishments this summer and as the academic year gets underway.

Julian Damashek, assistant professor of biology, was awarded a prestigious Community Science Program grant through the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a user facility of the Department of Energy Office of Science.

Assistant Professor of Classics Amy Koenig presented an invited lecture at Bryn Mawr College as part of their Classics Colloquium series on Sept. 20.

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History Shoshana Keller presented an interactive website that she created, "Mapping the Peoples of Kazakhstan," at the annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, held at Syracuse University, Sept. 13 to 15.

Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and its Manuscript Contexts, a new book by Professor of History John Eldevik, was recently published by Arc-Humanities Press. It examines the legend of Prester John, a powerful Christian monarch believed to have ruled a vast empire in Asia during the Middle Ages.

Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus gave the 2024 presidential address at the American Association of Philosophy Teachers biennial conference in July at Otterbein University (Ohio). His talk "Collaboration and Serious Engagement in the Philosophy Classroom" marked the second and final year of his presidency. Marcus has been an AAPT board member or committee chair since 2010, and served as vice president in 2021-22.

“More Than You Can Know,” a film by Naomi Guttman, the Jane Watson Irwin Professor in the Humanities, was recently screened at the Manhattan Film Festival Expo and the Maine International Film Festival (Waterville). Guttman also participated in a filmmaker's panel at the Hamilton New York International Film Festival, where the film was screened.

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Claire Mouflard chaired a panel and presented a paper at the Council of European Studies conference in Lyon, France, in July. The theme of the conference was "Radical Europe: Violence, Emancipation, and Reaction."