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Video: Foreseeing the Swing — Senior Comp Stories

Christian Lussier ’21, a computer science major and economics minor, credits his professors and advisors for preparing him for life after graduation and giving him the tools and intellectual capacity to finish his senior comp. Lussier used machine learning algorithms and data to try to predict stock price swings in the hopes of helping people […]

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Video: Beehives on Campus — Senior Comp Stories

Candace Burkhammer ’21 played a key role in bringing beehives to the ´óÏóÊÓÆµ campus, building on previous work by student researchers. Candace’s passion for beekeeping began with an internship — and ultimately became the topic of her Senior Comp.

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People & Places: October 2021

People & Places is published monthly during the academic year. It reports on the professional activities of members of the College community and highlights student achievement. Associate Professor of History Guo Wu was invited by H-Diplomacy to contribute a review of a research article published in The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, and the review […]

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People & Places: June 2021

People & Places is published monthly during the academic year. It reports on the professional activities of members of the College community and highlights student achievement. On May 5, 2021, Professor of Political Science and International Studies Shannan Mattiace shared her co-authored work on “Indian Resistance to Criminal Violence in Mexico,” with master’s students at the Autonomous […]

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People & Places: April 2021

People & Places is published monthly during the academic year. It reports on the professional activities of members of the College community and highlights student achievement. ´óÏóÊÓÆµ received $100,000 from the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation of The Pittsburgh Foundation for an Integrated Research-Education Grant to support Associate Professor of Chemistry Mark Ams’ research project, […]

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People & Places: March 2021

People & Places is published monthly during the academic year. It reports on the professional activities of members of the College community and highlights student achievement.   Associate Professor of History Guo Wu was invited by Quansheng Zhao, Professor of International Relations and Chair of the Asian Studies Research Council at American University, to contribute […]

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People & Places: February 2021

People & Places is published monthly during the academic year by the Office of College Relations. It reports on the professional activities of members of the College community and highlights student achievement. Michael Michaelides, assistant professor in economics, recently had published an article in the scholarly journal Finance Research Letters. Titled “Large Sample Size Bias […]

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People & Places: December 2020

Professor of Mathematics Anthony Lo Bello is the authorized translator of the memoirs of Italian lexicographer Antonio Cardinal Bacci, first published in Rome in 1964 by Editrice Studium under the title “Con il Latino a Servizio di Quattro Papi”. The new English language edition has the title “With Latin in the Service of the Popes” (ISBN […]

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People & Places: November 2020

People & Places is published monthly during the academic year by the Office of College Relations. It reports on the professional activities of members of the College community and highlights student achievement.   Assistant Professor of Economics Kathryn Bender, along with co-authors at Ohio State University and Louisiana State University, recently had published an article entitled […]

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People & Places: October 2020

Assistant Professor of English John MacNeill Miller published an article on Charles Darwin and Thomas Hardy in Texas Studies in Literature and Language. The article, “Mischaracterizing the Environment: Hardy, Darwin, and the Art of Environmental Storytelling,” analyzes literary and scientific accounts of English heathland to demonstrate how particular formal features of narrative writing can work […]