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Campus & Community

Welcome Back, Responding to Challenges

Wednesday, January 19, 2022, By News Staff

Dear Colleagues, Next Monday, Jan. 24, we begin the spring semester. This will be the fifth semester that we will be doing our work under the frustration and exhaustion that comes from enduring this seemingly never-ending pandemic. While I think…

Campus & Community

Students Learn Craft of Creative Writing With Stellar Faculty, New Undergraduate Degrees

Tuesday, January 18, 2022, By News Staff

In a 2019 interview, National Public Radio’s Scott Simon asked Chanelle Benz G’12 a pointed, and timely, question about her debut novel, “The Gone Dead,” in which the lead character returns to the Mississippi Delta shack her father owned in the…

Campus & Community

Call for Proposals: 2022 CUSE Grants

Monday, January 10, 2022, By Ellen de Graffenreid

Faculty are invited to submit a proposal for the 2022 Collaboration for Unprecedented Success and Excellence (CUSE) grant program. The deadline for proposals is Thursday, Feb. 24 at 5 p.m. CUSE grants, managed by the Office of Research, are intended…

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Important Information About Quarantine and Isolation

Monday, January 10, 2022, By News Staff

Dear Division Heads, Deans and Directors: We approach the start of the spring semester facing a new and different challenge related to operating the University during the COVID-19 pandemic—the highly infectious omicron variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 illness….

Media, Law & Policy

Faculty Student Research Team Will Examine Media Portrayal of Native Americans

Tuesday, January 4, 2022, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Representations of indigenous populations in the news media is the focus of a funded research project spearheaded by Hector Rendon, assistant professor of communications in the Newhouse School. The project, to be conducted from January to May, is funded by…

Campus & Community

Social Work Students Help Homeless ‘Rise Above the Streets’ This Holiday Season

Thursday, December 23, 2021, By Matt Michael

Falk College professor Jennifer Cornish Genovese first met Al-amin Muhammad in March 2018, when Muhammad gave the keynote address at Falk’s annual Dan and Mary Lou Rubenstein Social Justice Awards program. Muhammad is the founder of We Rise Above the…

Campus & Community

COVID-19 Update: Important Information About the Spring 2022 Semester

Wednesday, December 22, 2021, By News Staff

Dear Students, Families, Faculty and Staff: Earlier today, you received a message from Chancellor Syverud regarding the University’s decision to delay the start of the spring semester. We are taking this action based on the counsel we’ve received from many…

STEM

Professor Kevin Du Receives ‘Test of Time’ Award from the Computer Security Applications Conference

Wednesday, December 22, 2021, By Alex Dunbar

Kevin Du, Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, was awarded the Test of Time award at the 2021 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) for…

Campus & Community

Shifting the Start of the Spring Semester

Wednesday, December 22, 2021, By News Staff

Dear Students, Families, Faculty and Staff: I write to you today to share important information regarding the Spring 2022 semester. Given the sharp increase in COVID cases, the rapid spread of the omicron variant and warnings from public health officials…

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law Honors December LL.M. Graduates and Exchange Students

Tuesday, December 21, 2021, By Robert Conrad

At the conclusion of the fall 2021 semester, five LL.M. students graduated from the College of Law. These graduates, from Brazil, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, join more than 200 foreign-trained lawyers from around the world who are now College of…