Research in the College of Arts and Sciences spans disciplines from history to mathematics, anthropology to chemistry and everything in between to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of today.
Digging Deeper into Liquid Crystals
Digging Deeper into Liquid Crystals
*Photo by Ji-Hoon Lee
Determining the Age of our Human Ancestor
Determining the Age of our Human Ancestor
Photo courtesy of Dale Omori, CMNH
Overcoming Depression
Overcoming Depression
Psychologist James Overholser and his colleagues combat an upsurge in hopelessness
Understanding the Changing Habits of Butterflies
Understanding the Changing Habits of Butterflies
Sarah Diamond wins prestigious NSF CAREER award to research changing habits of butterflies.
Understanding the Math behind Music
Understanding the Math Behind Music
Physicist Jesse Berezovsky applies tools of statistical mechanics to explain patterns in music
Guggenheim Fellow Pairs Creative and Academic Writing
Guggenheim Fellow Pairs Creative and Academic Writing
Michael Clune named a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow to complete an academic compliment to his second memoir
Making Sense of Emotion and Choice
Making sense of emotion and choice
Evolutionary Adaptions to High Altitude Environments
Evolutionary Adaptions to High Altitude Environments
Researchers Search for Meteorites in the Antarctic
Antarctic Researchers Search for Meteorites
Faculty Bookshelf
20
Sep
Genetics and Genomics of Linum
Christopher Cullis, Francis Hobart Herrick Professor of Biology, Department of Biology (Springer). Linum (flax) is a genus of about 200 species in the flowering plant family Linaceae. The genus includes common flax, which is one of the best fibers to produce linen, the seeds to produce linseed oil and has...
05
Sep
Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender
Karen Beckwith, Flora Stone Mather Professor and Chair Department of Political Science (Oxford University Press) Historically, men have been more likely to be appointed to governing cabinets, but gendered patterns of appointment vary cross-nationally, and women's inclusion in cabinets has grown significantly over time. This book breaks new theoretical...
09
Aug
Capital Culture: Perspectives in Ethnic Studies II
Cheryl Toman, Professor of French, and Gilbert Doho, Associate Professor of French, (La Doxa Editions) The book united 11 scholars from four countries (U.S., Cameroon, Ghana and the U.K.) and plays with the various meanings of “capital,” exploring social justice and diversity. Immigration, war, natural disasters, prostitution, corruption and marginalization are...
09
Aug
The Random Matrix Theory of Classical Compact Groups
Elizabeth Meckes, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics & Statistics (Cambridge University Press). This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of foundational results and recent progress in the study of random matrices from the classical compact groups, drawing on the subject's deep connections to geometry, analysis,...
22
Mar
Geometry and Martingales in Banach Spaces
Wojbor Woyczynski, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics & Statistics
(CRC Press) Geometry and Martingales in Banach Spaces provides a compact exposition of the results explaining the interrelations existing between the metric geometry of Banach spaces and the theory of martingales, and general random vectors with values in those Banach spaces....
22
Mar
The Passions of Peter Sellars: Staging the Music
Susan McClary, Professor, Department of Music
(University of Michigan Press) Recognized as one of the most innovative and influential directors of our time, Peter Sellars has produced acclaimed—and often controversial—versions of many beloved operas and oratorios. He has also collaborated with several composers, including John C. Adams and Kaija Saariaho,...
22
Mar
The Scholems from Emancipation to Destruction
Jay Geller, Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies, Department of History
(Cornell University Press) The evocative and riveting stories of four brothers—Gershom the Zionist, Werner the Communist, Reinhold the nationalist, and Erich the liberal—weave together in The Scholems, a biography of an eminent middle-class Jewish Berlin family and a social...
15
Mar
Incremental Polarization
Justin Buchler, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
(Oxford University Press) As the last decade has shown, ideological polarization in Congress has reached historic levels. Yet, spatial theory has become increasingly important for how scholars understand Congress and legislative elections. In spatial models, candidates select positions along an ideological spectrum,...
11
Jan
The Wind~ An Unruly Living
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics, Department of Philosophy
(Punctum Books) A process begun in Pisa, Italy in April of 2016 during a workshop on political theory in the Anthropocene, The Wind ~ An Unruly Living is a philosophical exercise (askêsis, translated, following Ignatius of Loyola, as “spiritual exercise”). In...
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