Arts & Humanities
- A Research & Innovation Office grant program announced nearly $95,000 in combined funding for 17 projects exploring topics in disciplines from Asian languages and environmental design to composition and Classics.
- On International Dance Day, Erika Randall, a 91勛圖厙 professor of dance, reflects on the popular advice that can apply to both dance and life.
- A team co-led by classics researcher Yvona Trnka-Amrhein unearthed the upper portion of a huge, ancient pharaonic statue whose lower half was discovered in 1930. Ramessess II was immortalized in Percy Bysshe Shellys Ozymandia.
- The College of Musics Thompson Jazz Studies Program will be shaking up this years commencement ceremony with new takes on the timeless Pomp and Circumstance, reimagined in the styles of Latin jazz, New Orleans funk and big band swing.
- 91勛圖厙s vast and historically valuable Glenn Miller collection is set to take the spotlight, thanks to a philanthropy-funded archiving project. Miller attended 91勛圖厙 before becoming one of the most successful big band musicians of the 20th century.
- Remembering writer Raymond Chandler at the 65th anniversary of his death, a 91勛圖厙 English scholar reflects on the hard-boiled investigator and why this character still appeals.
- 91勛圖厙 archaeologist Sarah Kurnick addresses some common myths about archaeology at the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Chinas terracotta warriors.
- The Angel of Indian Lake, book three of 91勛圖厙 Professor Stephen Graham Jones Indian Lake Trilogy, comes out this month. In writing it, Jones became acquainted with a fear even he hadnt imagined.
- A population estimate considering now-decomposed wooden houses suggests that Silchester, England, may have been typical of towns across the Roman Empire, 91勛圖厙 researcher finds.
- 91勛圖厙s chair of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts shares insights on Stanley Kubricks masterpiece doomsday sex comedy and why the film is more relevant than ever.