We explore questions of the moment—the liberal arts are truly the front page of the newspaper—and enduring questions that help us to understand the present and the past and to anticipate the future.
Irina Zaykovskay, a new Russian lecturer, encourages her students to delve into the “new, and challenging, and messy” aspects of learning a language from scratch.
Daniel Haataja spent the 1988-89 academic year in Iceland as a Val Björnson exchange student, which he credits with inspiring his interest in languages. He went on to earn his…
As a social justice theatre teacher, Crystal Spring (BA ‘06, theatre arts) shows students that theatre can be here and now, existing as a reflection of our own stories and…
Sara C. Olson (BA ‘91, theatre and music) works as a cutter-fitter and patternmaker for costumes for major motion pictures, creating looks for Ant-Man and other iconic…
Alumna Betsy Nelson found her career in restaurants and food styling. Little did she know that her campus job would ultimately play a major role in her career—first as a…
"What many depictions miss is that LGBTQ communities of color were easy prey for Dahmer due to histories of police violence and indifference," PhD alumnus Kidiocus King…
BA undergrad Jada Lilleboe is enhancing her computer science skills through her technical writing minor in the Department of Writing Studies. "Sometimes the documentation for…
Ruggles is renowned for building the world’s largest publicly available database of population statistics, an invaluable tool for comparative research across time and space.
Smile, the new blockbuster horror film, takes a common facial characteristic and turns it into something sinister - but just why are altered smiles so disturbing? Dr. Helwig…