Perspectives

Ena Selimovic, a doctoral candidate in comparative literature in Arts & Sciences, discusses her book collection in a Q&A on the Library of Congress blog. She won this year’s National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest.

Lerone Martin, of the John C Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, discusses the importance of technology in the classroom and how it can make the humanities come to life and engage today’s students, in a Q&A on The Teaching Center’s website.

Geoff Childs, professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, co-authored the book “From a Trickle to a Torrent” with doctoral student Namgyal Choedup, examining what happens to a community when the majority of its young people leave home to pursue an education.

Statistician Liberty Vittert, visiting assistant professor in Arts & Sciences, writes in The Conversation about racial profiling and why metrics in use today to track police-motorist encounters don’t give the full picture.

As the biggest dust storm on Mars that humans have ever seen calms, NASA announced it will continue attempting to contact the Opportunity rover. Ray Arvidson, of Arts & Sciences, deputy principal investigator for the Mars rover mission, shares details of the space agency’s efforts.

In the new book “The Fragmented Personality,” Dragan Svrakic, MD, PhD, at the School of Medicine, and Mirjana Divac-Jovanovic, of Sigidunum University in Serbia, introduce a new model for diagnosing and caring for patients with personality disorder. The approach yields a diagnosis sensitive to fluctuations in mental functioning over time and context and gives clinicians […]

Jean Allman, director of the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, discusses her research on Ghana, women and gender for an episode of “Africa Past and Present,” a podcast produced at Michigan State University.

Marie Griffith, director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, writes in the online journal Religion & Politics about the killings in Louisville, Ky., and in Pittsburgh. “Honoring the latest thirteen lives callously stolen by hate, and so many who came before them, requires audible, visible action, even among those made uncomfortable […]

Aaron Bobick, dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, writes an expert piece on the Axios website about measures that voters in Arizona and Nevada will consider tomorrow to require utilities to invest in clean energy.

Ahead of the midterm elections, Steve Fazzari, chair of sociology in Arts & Sciences, explores the state of the economy and explains for a “Hold That Thought” episode why unemployment and growth figures don’t tell the full story.