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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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April 09, 2021
Heather McKee Hurwitz, lecturer in the Department of Sociology, has been speaking across the country about the themes in her new book, Are We the 99%?, including intersectionality, contemporary protest, the Occupy movement and its legacies, and the current moment of protest—including responding to…
April 08, 2021
By Jonathan Sadowsky, the Castele Professor of Medical History I often start a new class by asking why we should study history. I don’t allow the cliché “History repeats itself,” without specific examples. The history of epidemics provides some: racist scapegoating, denialism, resistance to…
April 06, 2021
Program: Physics PhDYear: Second year When Ayesha Gonzales received a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship this year for her work in Associate Professor Michael Hinczewski’s lab, it came as no surprise to those around her. “With Ayesha's machine learning expertise, the sky's the limit,”…
April 06, 2021
The Department of Anthropology will host a lecture with Sienna Craig, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, Thursday, April 22, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. Craig will present “Kinship, Care and Attunement to Stories: Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New…
April 02, 2021
In a piece published by Common Reader, Deepak Sarma contemplated the meaning of hair among Hindus. Sarma, professor in the Department of Religious Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, drew from passages that relate to the topic as well as his own personal experiences. Read the piece,…
March 31, 2021
Members of the APP community are invited to attend a webinar about the military ethics program Tuesday, April 6, at 4 p.m. Attendees will learn about the country’s only master’s degree program in military ethics. All are welcome to attend. The deadline for…
March 29, 2021
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will host a talk with Ángel Mato Díaz titled “Emigración y Alfabetización: Fuentes Escritas y Gráficas” Wednesday, March 31, at 3:20 p.m. Ángel Mato Díaz received his PhD in history from the University of Oviedo. He has served as a professor of…
March 25, 2021
The Department of Anthropology will host Patricia Sunderland, founding principal at Cultural Research and Analysis, for a presentation titled “Mining Cultural Metaphors in Product Development and Design” Thursday, April 8, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. Sunderland is a specialist in the…
March 24, 2021
Over the next two months, the annual festival from APP partners with numerous cultural organizations to stage a diverse spate of events on race, class, gender, ethnicity and other identity-related topics The 2021 Cleveland Humanities Festival (CHF) will explore a theme…
March 23, 2021
The Dittrick Medical History Center will host the 2021 Percy Skuy Annual Lecture with a talk presented by Lauren Macivor Thompson titled “Doctors, Suffragists, Socialists, Eugenicists: Identities and Politics in the Early Birth Control Movement” Thursday, April 1, from 6 to 7 p.m. Lauren Macivor…