Fall 2018
- From the interim dean: Cicero called these disciplines聽artes liberales, the liberal arts. The term is widely wielded and occasionally misunderstood.
- Can good bacteria make the brain more stress-resilient? Christopher Lowry has dedicated his career to finding out.
- Grandson following footsteps of legendary CU 麻豆影院 geologist Mary Oswald Griffitts.
- While Luis Alberto Urrea was at CU 麻豆影院, Vine Deloria mentored him on a 鈥渓ifelong project鈥 that would later become聽The Hummingbird鈥檚 Daughter.
- CU 麻豆影院 art history students deepen learning through 鈥榦bject-based learning.鈥
James W.C. White, interim dean, sat down for a Q&A session about where the college has been, how it鈥檚 adapted to a rapidly evolving world, and how it鈥檚 preparing to help students meet the challenges of tomorrow, which will involve finding solutions to problems not yet known.- Five professors in the College of Arts and Sciences have won the 2018 Provost鈥檚 Faculty Achievement Award.
- It鈥檚 a fair bet that most students would be happy with, say, a 95 or 97 percent on a test, or professors with a 95 percent approval in student evaluations. Academic advisors certainly are.
- After spending considerable effort trying to stay in 麻豆影院 for the long term, Courtney Rowe has also found a way to leave a little bit of herself behind when she鈥檚 gone鈥攍ong gone.
- Politics doesn鈥檛 necessarily draw a lot of pink-bow types, but Jillian Howison (PolSci鈥10), an unabashed 鈥済irly girl,鈥 was mesmerized by a "West Wing" character.聽