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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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June 24, 2022
Deepak Sarma, professor of Indian religion and philosophy at APP, was recently named to two external positions. He was elected the vice president of the Grateful Dead Studies Association, an interdisciplinary academic organization for the study of the American rock band…
June 17, 2022
Only three years after President Abraham’s Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did enslaved people become free in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union Army Major General Gordon Granger proclaimed to the people of Texas that, “in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United…
June 17, 2022
Classics’ Evelyn Adkins offers novel interpretation of ancient Roman society in newly published book
Evelyn Adkins, assistant professor of classics at APP, recently wrote a book titled Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, published by the University of Michigan Press. Adkins’ book has been described as the “first in-depth examination of speech…
June 17, 2022
William Marling, professor of English at APP, spoke about the life and legacy of Catholic anarchist Ammon Hennacy on KCPW-FM, a public radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah. Roger McDonough, a KCPW contributor, interviewed Marling about his recently published biography…
June 14, 2022
APP religious studies professor, author Timothy Beal’s new book offers ‘palliative hope’ amid climate crisis threatening human extinction Author and APP religious studies professor Timothy Beal offers humanity a bit of advice amid what many…
June 14, 2022
Major: Biology and Philosophy Year: Fourth Year The human condition is a topic that has long held the interest of philosophers and academics. Shreyas Banerjee shares this interest, and is pursuing it at APP as a fourth-year student double majoring in biology and…
June 10, 2022
Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor of political science at APP, recently wrote an article investigating women’s routes toward executive political leadership in the European Union. Published as a chapter of the book Women and Leadership in the European…
June 10, 2022
Timothy Beal, the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at APP, recently received positive reviews on his newest book, When Time Is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene. Publishers Weekly described Beal’s book as a “deconstruct(ion) of human exceptionalism” that…
June 07, 2022
Majors: Mathematics, Quantitative Economics, PhysicsYear: Rising fourth-year When Stephen Andryc told his high school wrestling coach he was considering competing at the collegiate level, his coach shared some sage advice: “Choose a place where you’ll thrive—even if you get injured and athletics…
May 26, 2022
Gabriella Celeste, policy director at the Schubert Center for Child Studies and an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, called for more efforts to engage local youth positively outside the justice system, and to address the alienation and the resort to firearms for…