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Andrew P. Miller, associate professor of political science at Wilkes University, has received the Carpenter Award for Teaching. The award, considered Wilkes’…

Crystal Feimster, a historian of African-American history, U.S. women’s history, and the American South, has been appointed the next Head of Pierson College.

During the Smithsonians inaugural Educators Day program, teachers learned about classroom-ready tools, transferable teaching approaches, and opportunities for ongoing professional learning.

Date Time UNITAR and Mount Kenya University are joining forces to empower people and transform lives Thika, Kenya – To further advance the implementation of the Agenda for Sustainable Development and particularly Goals 4 of Quality Education, 16 of Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions and 17 of Parnerships for Development, the Division for Peace of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has entered a new strategic partnership with Mount Kenya University with the off...

Our Ecosystem at Risk A student’s study of bacteria in water suggests low levels of antibiotics could have an outsized impact By Andrew Thurston In early fall 2015, Corliss Kanazawa crouched at the edge of Hall’s Pond in Brookline, Massachusetts, and skimmed a test tube along the surface. Her shoes sloshing, Kanazawa (’16, SAR’18) took the sample back to a lab at the College of General Studies, where she is scrutinizing the pond’s tiniest residents—the bacteria—to learn how antib...

of Humanities “Grace under pressure”—that’s the phrase that most comes to mind when I think about Linda. When I was an untenured professor, I had the privilege of having Linda as the chair of my department, and I was always amazed by how effortlessly and graciously she juggled the demands of being an administrator, professor, and mother. She made it look easy; she never seemed rattled and she always had time for a chat. Even when we had to hire six or seven professors in one summer, she...