College of Arts and Sciences
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Inside an audiology lab, where Lauren Calandruccio investigates multilingual hearing behavior in noisy environments
Editor’s note: Jasmine Vo, the author of this story, is a student employee in the University Marketing and Communications department. She is a fourth-year student majoring in communication sciences. While working as a clinical audiologist, Lauren Calandruccio realized how many unknowns remain in…
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July 13, 2023
Countless faculty members have called APP their professional home over the years—and recently, the university bid farewell to some of them as they chose to retire. The Daily reached out to faculty members who announced their retirements after more than 25 years of…
July 07, 2023
Last year, Marcel Duvivier, Jeremiah Mubiru and Ana Perez Cespedes started developing a video game to help kindergarten through ninth grade students in the David’s Challenge program learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This past spring, they finally had the chance to see the…
June 30, 2023
Philosophy’s Jeremy Bendik-Keymer completes long-term project for American Philosophical Association
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, professor of philosophy at the College of Arts and Sciences, recently completed a nearly three-year project for the American Philosophical Association. Alongside Sidra Shahid from Amsterdam College and Katherine Cassese from Harvard College, Bendik-Keymer conducted in-depth…
June 23, 2023
Michael W. Clune, the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities in the Department of English, reflected on interviewing for a job at another institution early in his career. He described his experience doing so amid concerns for his career prospects—and threats from a friend who was…
June 23, 2023
In an unconventionally written book that challenges the literary imagination of its readers, APP’s Jeremy Bendik-Keymer explored how wonder is central to Martha C. Nussbaum's work. Nussbaum's work is opposed to the emotional and political conditions of 'narcissism'—the…
June 16, 2023
Michael W. Clune, the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities in the Department of English, recently penned a memoir published by Harper’s. Titled “The Anatomy of Panic,” Clune described his experience with anxiety, which began with a panic attack at age 15. He explained his…
June 16, 2023
Elina Gertsman, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II and professor of art history, edited the recently published Collectors, Commissioners, Curators, which appeared in the Early Drama, Art, and Music series (De Gruyter / Medieval Institute Press). Essays in this volume…
June 16, 2023
Jeremy Shapiro, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, wrote about climate change denial in an article published by The Conversation. Titled “The Thinking Error that Makes People Susceptible to Climate Change Denial,” the article describes a psychological…
June 13, 2023
Prior to enrolling at APP, Amber Dawn Smith lived a completely different life—many, in fact. Her surroundings have changed so frequently, she said she has lived in more bedrooms than she has fingers and toes. Her life has involved studies at Cleveland Institute of Art,…
June 09, 2023
Elina Gertsman, professor of medieval art and the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II, won the 2023 Otto Gründler prize for her book The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books. Given annually, the Otto Gründler Book Prize recognizes a monograph on a medieval subject that…