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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August 28, 2020
Caleb Curry, a student in the College of Arts and Sciences, led a study about how asthma prevalence relates to race, ethnicity and sexual identity. Curry received support and mentorship from his colleagues at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern…
August 25, 2020
Melvyn C. Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet at APP (CWRU), is widely considered to be the world’s leading scholar of Tibet in anthropology. He is the first Western anthropologist to conduct…
August 07, 2020
Georgia Cowart, professor of music, was elected to honorary membership in the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) by the organization’s governing board. Honorary members are chosen for “their outstanding contribution to the study and presentation of seventeenth-century music.” She is one…
August 05, 2020
Launched at APP this summer, the open-source Occupy Archive offers citizens and scholars a chance to revisit the multi-faceted movement—and recognize its roots in contemporary calls for reform and justice The Occupy Movement was one of the first massive demonstrations…
July 31, 2020
The College of Arts and Sciences recognized two undergraduate students with Francis J. and Earla E. Rocks Fellowships through Experiential Learning Fellowships this summer. Kimberly Osbern and Alex Van Belleghem were the honorees. Osbern received $3,000 for the research project titled “Homophobic…
July 31, 2020
Lydia Kisley, the Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor of Physics, was selected to participate in the 2020-21 Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell initiative, sponsored by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The event’s goal is to identify…
July 29, 2020
From trying to understand lung immunity in COVID-19 patients to recognizing the impact the pandemic has had on mental health, researchers at APP and affiliated health care systems have joined forces to expand and improve research on the virus in the community and beyond.…
July 24, 2020
John Broich, associate professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences, penned a piece about a group of Spanish Civil War veterans who continued combat into World War II. The group hoped to bring representative freedoms to their country, but they found democracy was abandoned following the…
July 24, 2020
Pavel Fileviez Perez, associate professor in the Department of Physics, will be a convener at the American Physical Society's Snowmass 2021. The event is held every 10 years with scientists from around the world, allowing them to identify the most pressing issues in the field of particle…
July 24, 2020
Timothy Beal, chair of the Department of Religious Studies and the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, recently participated in an episode of the Unholier than Thou podcast, which is produced by Crooked Media. The episode is titled "Apocalypse Now?" and explores how speculations of an…