Arts & Sciences

First there was HEAO, then SOFIE, then CRIS and now TIGER. For an astrophysicist whose major research projects over the past 36 years have had these acronyms, it is only fitting that Martin H. Israel, Ph.D., drives a car with license plates that read “COSMC” — as in cosmic rays. Since he arrived at the […]

Veteran author, critic, essayist and poet Richard Stern will read from his work at 4 p.m. March 22 for The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences’ Writers Series. The reading, to be followed by a question-and-answer session, will be in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 201. Over his 50-year career, Stern, the Helen […]

The PAD’s spring MainStage production is a provocative modern parable about the tensions and alliances between virtue and ruthlessness.

He is being recognized for Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care.

She was recognized with a Teaching and Mentoring Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.

Distinguished scholar Iain Boyd Whyte, professor of architectural history at the University of Edinburgh and a senior visiting program officer for the Getty Grant Program, will speak on “Expressionist Architecture” at 7 p.m. Oct. 2 for the Gallery of Art. The lecture is free and open to the public and will take place in Steinberg […]

Anton Chekhov’s late masterwork, The Three Sisters, is considered by many critics to be the finest drama of the 20th century.

A major gift from Eric P. and Evelyn E. Newman will create a state-of-the art numismatic museum as part of the Sam Fox Arts Center, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced Dec. 10. The Newman Money Museum will house exhibitions and audiovisual displays on a variety of topics relating to the history of coins and currency, […]

The Master of Liberal Arts (MLA) Saturday Lecture series, sponsored by the MLA Program of University College in Arts & Sciences, will feature four University experts addressing the concept of “Commemoration: Public Memories of the Past in the Present for the Future.” “In selecting the MLA series theme for this year, we drew inspiration from […]

Doctoral student Ann Nguyen and adviser Ernst K. Zinner found nine specks of silicate stardust from one of the most primitive meteorites known.