Board approves faculty appointments
May 26, 2021 11:52 a.m.
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The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of faculty members, including one full professor, one associate professor and eight assistant professors.
Professor
Emily Greenwood, in classics and the University Center for Human Values, specializes in ancient Greek prose literature and classical receptions. Her appointment is effective July 1, 2021.
Greenwood comes to Princeton from Yale University, where she has taught since 2009, most recently as a professor of classics with a courtesy secondary appointment in African American studies. She previously taught at St. Andrews University as a lecturer from 2000 to 2008
ROCHESTER, NY (WXXI) – Cornell University’s prison educational programs have been on hold during the pandemic, but a theater professor has found a way to keep connected with incarcerated people.
For decades, performing arts professor Bruce Levitt has used theater as a way to engage with people who are incarcerated.
A student stands in front of a videocamera during a recording of her performance in the play Credit provided by Bruce Levitt
“To see people discover themselves in front of you is very exciting,” said Levitt, who is also a facilitator for the Phoenix Players Theatre Group at Auburn Maximum Security Prison. “To help them on that journey, particularly people who have been reduced to a number and a crime find and rediscover their wholeness as human beings is a pretty exciting process.”
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“What I was able to do was to recognize young men and women who had entrepreneurial gifts, who knew how to create organizations,” recalled Campolo, who used the term
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The University of Oregon has received a $4.52 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a new initiative envisioning a transformative.