Professors Dean and Parker posing with College of LAS Dean Venetria Patton

Tim Dean and Robert Dale Parker receive named positions

In a joint ceremony held earlier this fall, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences celebrated the investitures of Tim Dean as James M. Benson Professor in English and Robert Dale Parker as Frank Hodgins Chair in American Literature.
Janice Harrington with her book, "Rooting for Plants"

Janice Harrington writes children’s biography of pioneering Black botanist

Professor Janice Harrington hopes that book on pioneering Black botanist inspires young readers to overcome obstacles and pay attention to the world around them.
Professor Jamie L. Jones

The long afterlife of whaling

The whaling industry helped drive industrialization in the 19th century, with whale oil used to light lamps and lubricate machinery. Even after petroleum replaced whale oil as an energy source in the U.S., whaling continued to be part of our cultural imagination and helped develop the idea of an...
John Levi Barnard

Believing in the necessary

There are things we’ve trained to do, and then there are the things we change for. Professor John Levi Barnard describes how his scholarship and teaching add perspective to current crises.
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