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Anthropology and Africana Studies

Africana alumna starts charter school in Arkansas

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Economics

CICER brings China experts across campus together

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CICER helps coordinate the efforts of scholars across campus and supports research to understand economic growth in China and its impact on the world economy.

Women's Political History

Women's revolt transformed Nigeria, says historian

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New research by Judith Byfield, associate professor of history, offers a different lens through which to understand women’s political history in post-World War II Nigeria.

Asian studies

Alum spends time in Taiwan immersed in art, language

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To master Chinese calligraphy, Vincent Chong writes each character over and over on paper, while consulting his book of 1,000 characters.

Creative writing

Sally Wen Mao: A honey badger of a poet

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The fearless honey badger steals lions' prey and gobbles cobras for dinner. Tenacious and determined, it devours honeycombs despite countless bee stings. This is the totem animal of Sally Wen Mao, MFA '13, and an inspiration for her first book of poems, "Mad Honey Symposium," published in May by Alice James Books.

College Scholars

Alumnus's interactive technology takes the guesswork out of teaching

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Brian Lukoff '04 loves math.This is not true for many Americans (30 percent according to a recent survey), who say they're just "not good at math."Lukoff thinks there's a way to change that statistic, believing that part of the problem is the way students are learning in math and other disciplines as well. He has developed a tool that helps teachers and professors gauge what their students know and address gaps right away.

College Scholars

Editing genes to target disease: Katrine Bosley's work targets poorly served diseases, patients

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Although Katrine Bosley '90 doesn't get a lot of time to talk to patients as CEO of Editas Medicine, she relishes the opportunity."You only have to talk to one patient with one disease that you're working on to know why you go to work every day," says Bosley, whose company is working to translate genome editing technology into new drugs and treatments for poorly treated diseases and patients.

Mathematics

Math alum combines tech, creativity with Fly app

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If you hear Tim Novikoff, Ph.D. '13, speak and you're of a certain age, you might recognize him as the voice of Jeffy from MTV's "Daria" animated series from the mid-1990s.But if you look at his LinkedIn profile, you'll see that his career has followed a path that marries his love of the technical world with the joy he finds in being creative.

Creative writing

Author Jandy Nelson '87's 'magical, inspiring' creative writing experience

Jandy Nelson '87 decided at a very young age that she wanted to be a poet. "I was probably about 13," she says. "I don't know where it came from -- I still don't. My parents always thought I would grow out of it, and I didn't."

Career exploration

Alumna's varied career benefits students weighing options

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The course of Carol Rattray's '78 career has veered from finance to philanthropy to entrepreneurship, so she's a popular person when she volunteers her time for the Arts and Sciences Career Services office.