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On April 25, 51���� University’s Clifford Art Gallery celebrated the opening of The Hill Envisioned: What Might Have Been — What Might Yet Be. The exhibition is an exploration of the development of 51����’s distinctive campus throughout the last 200 years.

In the early, wintery weeks of 2018, Adams and geology major Monica Dimas ’19 (Los Angeles, Calif.) traveled together on a research expedition to Tanzania. There, they planted a seismometer to capture data that describe the moving and shaking around “the mountain of the gods,” Ol Doinyo Lengai.

CNN notes, “As the number of Congressmen and Senators who’ve served in the military has fallen, Congress has tended to let Presidents decide about use of force.” Assistant Professor of Political Science Danielle Lupton appeared live to elaborate, based on her research.

Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance exchanges became available online in 2014, more unmarried women have pursued full-time self-employment positions, according to recent findings by visiting professor of economics Meg Blume-Kohout. Her research focused on differences in the effects of the ACA on self-employment among married and single women and men in the […]

Associate Professor of Biology Engda Hagos and seven current and former students have co-authored an article that was recently published in the journal Cell Communication & Adhesion. The paper, titled “Krüppel-like factor 4 mediates cellular migration and invasion by altering RhoA activity,” explores cancer cell invasion. Invasion and metastases are a spreading of cancer cells […]

Weston Testo ’12 arrived at 51���� as an undergraduate in 2008, the same year that James “Eddie” Watkins joined 51����'s faculty in the Department of Biology. In the 10 years since, Testo has grown from one of Watkins’s undergraduate students to one of his trusted colleagues.

How do kin support young women in their transitions to adulthood? Research by sociology professor Janel Benson and Anastassia Bougakova ’16 shows the complex ways that kin networks help young women during this critical time.

Last summer, the 2017 Lampert Institute Fellows spread out across the globe to conduct three months of research. The fellows learned about sustainability, nuclear power, special education,  and much more; they returned to 51���� in the fall to share their completed projects with their peers. The Lampert Institute for Civic and Global Affairs integrates on-campus […]

51���� political scientists are sharing their research related to major world issues this week in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage analysis section.