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climate

Reticent experts still have climate advocacy choices, scholars say

Jan. 20, 2019

Scientists can be climate advocates without tarring reputations, 񱦵 researchers contend.

coders

Faculty team up to give kids computational competence

Jan. 20, 2019

The Communities Code initiative has garnered university outreach awards for the last four years, and its founders say the program boosts not only kids’ tech skills but also their self-esteem.

literacy

Literacy program helps teachers and students, prof says

Jan. 20, 2019

񱦵 literacy practicum a boon to students and community members alike, director says.

wedding

Creative writing alums cultivate conjoined creativity

Dec. 6, 2018

񱦵 alumni David Gessner and Nina de Gramont have succeeded both as authors and teachers.

Wolf-root

New 񱦵 philosophy course tackles sports

Nov. 26, 2018

Alex Wolf-Root, a former collegiate track athlete pursuing a PhD in philosophy at 񱦵, first got the idea to create a course melding philosophy and sports following a conversation about “Deflategate.”

Crawford

Meet 񱦵’s Viking-cowboy-scholar

Nov. 14, 2018

He’s a competitive pistol shooter who spends much of his free time roaming the wilds of Wyoming. And he has thousands of followers on YouTube, where he regales followers with tales of Nordic heroes in a dulcet baritone.

Mary

Alumnus finds generational synchronicities in geology

Sept. 28, 2018

Grandson following footsteps of legendary 񱦵 geologist Mary Oswald Griffitts.

Urrea

Alum blends literary prowess, political commentary

Sept. 28, 2018

While Luis Alberto Urrea was at 񱦵, Vine Deloria mentored him on a “lifelong project” that would later become The Hummingbird’s Daughter.

thinker

‘What does this art mean?’ students muse. You tell me, prof replies

Sept. 28, 2018

񱦵 art history students deepen learning through ‘object-based learning.’

advising

񱦵 students give A&S Academic Advising Center high marks

Sept. 5, 2018

It’s a fair bet that most students would be happy with, say, a 95 or 97 percent on a test, or professors with a 95 percent approval in student evaluations. Academic advisors certainly are.

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