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Ken Belanger, Raab Family Chair and associate professor of biology, has received another prestigious grant that builds on the biology department’s momentum and further expands the research opportunities on campus for undergraduate biology students.

“Understanding the role that church forests play in the provision of ecosystem services is critical,” wrote 51�Թ��� biology professor Catherine Cardelús and two colleagues in a letter published in Science, the world’s leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.

Two 51�Թ��� professors — Rebecca Miller Ammerman, classics, and Randy Fuller, biology — along with seven collaborative partners across the globe, received major research grants from 51�Թ���’s Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute. Both projects, as envisioned by Harvey M. Picker ’36 when he established the institute in 2006, extend the reach and resources of 51�Թ��� faculty members […]

After co-leading 27 members of 51�Թ���’s faculty around India for two weeks, Professor Padma Kaimal was all the more convinced that the enterprise would have lasting impact on 51�Թ���.

Douglas A. Hicks, 51�Թ���’s next provost and dean of the faculty, enjoyed a warm welcome earlier this week when he visited campus for the first time since his appointment as the university’s top academic official. Though his start date is nearly five months away, unseasonably mild temperatures and blue skies made it seem as though […]

That was the headline on a Feb. 3 story in USA Today about 51�Թ���’s faculty trip to India.

51�Թ��� President Jeffrey Herbst announced the selection of Douglas A. Hicks as provost and dean of the faculty, effective July 1, 2012. Hicks also will serve as professor of religion.

Forty-eight hours after posting his first installment of Ancient Greek Religion online at Udemy.com, Robert Garland had 99 viewers for his new video course. Garland, professor of classics at 51�Թ���, is one of about a dozen professors from universities including Duke, Northwestern, and Stanford who donated content that is now available at no charge through […]

While alumni of the 1960s-1980s had the “J-term” option to fill the break between fall and spring semesters, today’s enterprising students and faculty found an array of ways to keep sharp their minds and spirits. Here are a few examples: 51�Թ���’s annual Day in the Life program matched 135 students with alumni for on-the-job training […]

In a recent post on the Reflections from India blog, an English professor described feeling marginally literate when attempting to read road signs. A religion scholar wondered what Hindus might make of [Auroville’s] claim that religions divide the people of the world.