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The editorial staff of Book XI, led by Marianne Janack, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, has just published the latest issue of the journal.
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Highlights of August’s coverage have been compiled by the Media Relations Office. Links are provided, but some may require subscriptions to access content. Please contact Senior Director of Media Relations Vige Barrie if you cannot open the link and do not have a subscription.
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As the principal investigator on an international team of scholars, Professor of Comparative Literature and Creative Writing Emerita Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz recently published the first two chapters of Queering the Past(s).
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Plato’s Dialogues of Definition: Causal and Conceptual Investigations, by Assistant Professor of Philosophy Justin Clark, was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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Professor of Mathematics Sally Cockburn and Sean McAvoy ’23 worked on a research project exploring what happens when graph automorphisms that are usually applied to vertices are instead applied to edges.
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An article co-authored by Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stephen Tomasetti appears in the Journal Environmental Pollution.
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Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang gave several invited talks during the summer break.
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Assistant Professor of Mathematics Jose Ceniceros was invited to contribute to a special Hispanic Heritage Month issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
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Trigger Warning: This article references a case of sexual assault. Please engage in self-care as you read it. In 2015, Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner sexually assaulted an unconscious woman. He received six months in prison. Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Rebecca Dyer remembers the public trial, especially the use of his good character as defense. Inspired by this case and her previous work on moral character, Dyer decided to study the interaction between blame and moral character with three students this summer.
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Associate Professor of Geosciences Catherine “Cat” Beck and students, Sara Shedroff ’23 and Marcella Winget ’24, traveled to the Loperot Camp in the Turkana Basin of Kenya’s Rift Valley in June and part of July to conduct research as part of the Turkana Miocene Project funded by the National Science Foundation.
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