2024 News
Irish Theatre Summer Studio Offers Unique Dramatic, Cultural and Historical Experience
August 19, 2024 - This summer, °®°®Ö±²¥ Theatre graduate student Grace Acquilano participated in the prestigious Irish Summer Studio at The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. This three-week intensive program begins in Galway, Ireland, where students can conduct independent research on a chosen topic using the Abbey Theatre archives at the University of Galway library. The course culminates in three major writing assignments: an artist’s reflection, a performance review of a production currently playing in Ireland and a final research paper. The research component allows students the potential opportunity to publish their work after the program.
Theology Master’s Graduates Follow Diverse Paths to Serve and Lead
August 18, 2024 - Master's students in Theology at °®°®Ö±²¥ are dedicated scholars who explore how faith engages culture in the church and world today. These recent Theology master’s graduates, Theresa Gardner ’24 MA, Dane Litchfield ’24 MTS and Matthew Zanowic ’24 MA, are traveling diverse pathways to serve their communities and lead important theological scholarship.
°®°®Ö±²¥ Graduate HRD Program Leads to Leadership Role for Resource Management Professional
July 29, 2024 - With years working in learning and development, talent acquisition and resource management, Ligia Vail ’24 MS was at a crossroads. She was an experienced human resource professional, but felt she needed something more to reach the next level in her career. After first starting down a different path, Vail found that earning a Master of Science in Human Resource Development (HRD) at °®°®Ö±²¥ helped her grow her knowledge and fast-tracked her to a leadership role in her organization.
Psychology Thesis Award Recognizes Postpartum Depression Research
July 25, 2024 - The °®°®Ö±²¥ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences is pleased to announce Kerry Buckhaults '23 MS as this year's Ingeborg L. and O. Byron Ward Outstanding Thesis Award winner. This award honors one Psychology master's student each year for a particularly excellent thesis and thesis project, Buckhaults conducted her thesis project, "Examining Estrogen Withdrawal Following Hormone-Simulated Pregnancy as a Model of Postpartum Depression and Anxiety in C57BL/6 Mice," under the direction of Benjamin Sachs, PhD.
Philosophy PhD Graduate Works at the Forefront of the Ethics of Technology
June 27, 2024 - “Christopher Quintana ’24 PhD sees the value of philosophy for the world,” says °®°®Ö±²¥ Professor of Philosophy Sally Scholz, PhD. Dr. Quintana, who graduated from °®°®Ö±²¥’s Philosophy doctoral program in May, specializes in the philosophy and ethics of technology. His dissertation, Characterizing Digital Design: A Philosophical Approach, evaluates user interface and experience design through Aristotle’s ideas of virtues, especially the virtue of practical rationality. Specifically, he explores how technology design can impact and undermine an individual’s capacity for independent practical reasoning. What happens to us when so much of our social and personal activity is mediated by technology? How do our relationships to technology change?
CONCEPT Celebrates Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Scholarship
June 24, 2024 - This spring, graduate students, faculty and staff in the °®°®Ö±²¥ College of Liberal Arts and Sciences celebrated the launch of 47th edition of CONCEPT, the interdisciplinary scholarly journal of CLAS graduate students. The CONCEPT Graduate Research Prize was awarded to graduate English student Sarah Gregory '24 MA for her paper, "In a Mirror Clearly: Narrative-based Interventional and Restorative Possibilities in There There."
Ethical Leadership Drives MPA Students’ Success at NASPAA Simulation Competition
April 30, 2024 - The mission of the °®°®Ö±²¥ Master of Public Administration program is to provide graduates the knowledge, values, skills and practices to be ethical, intelligent, inclusive and creative leaders in the field of public service. These qualities were on display at the 2024 Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) Student Simulation Competition this March as five °®°®Ö±²¥ MPA students competed in the regional competitions, with one student taking home a first-place finish in the Virginia region at Old Dominion University.
Psychology Colloquium Highlights Diverse Careers and Research Interests of Graduate Program Alumni
April 25, 2024 - On April 5, the °®°®Ö±²¥ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences hosted a special colloquium that featured presentations from four alumni from the master's program in Psychology. This daylong event in a packed Dougherty Hall East Lounge showcased the diverse research interests of successful alumni and was made more notable by the presence of each presenter's faculty thesis mentors, all of whom are recently retired or are retiring this year.
Biology, Environmental Science Students Take Top Spots at °®°®Ö±²¥ Three Minute Thesis Competition
March 25, 2024 - °®°®Ö±²¥ graduate Biology student Claire Jones took first place, and graduate Environmental Science student Lorina Holterhoff took second place at the University's Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) on March 15 in the Mullen Center for the Performing Arts. Jones, whose presentation “How do chickadees communicate about the presence and absence of food?,” was rated the highest by a panel of faculty judges, advances to the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools regional 3MT competition on April 26.
Prestigious Oxford Summer Program Lays Groundwork for °®°®Ö±²¥ Theatre Graduate’s Acting Career
February 26, 2024 - This past summer, °®°®Ö±²¥ Theatre alumna Taahira Davis ’23 MA participated in the prestigious British American Drama Academy (BADA) Midsummer Program at the historic Magdalen College at the University of Oxford. The BADA program runs in association with the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. The program is designed for committed actors and focuses on classical theatre craft with an emphasis on Shakespeare. Its faculty consists of leading British theatre practitioners and faculty from top American graduate programs.
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