Search

capstone project was very much inspired by my passion for plant science, food security and agriculture. I completed my capstone project last spring, where I wrote a literature review focusing on genetic engineering mechanisms to combat environmental stressors — such as flooding and drought — in important agricultural crops … food security is being threatened by the severe weather patterns as a result of climate change. One potential solution to the severe crop losses, loss of food security and economic

creativity, writing a column for The Mast that was based on his experiences studying abroad. Evanishyn’s overseas experiences included a year in Aix-en-Provence, France, a Tacoma-sized city located about 20 miles from Marseilles. There he studied subjects ranging from European literature to the ecology of the Mediterranean Sea, all the while soaking up the majestic ambiance of France’s wine country. “It’s a really beautiful area,” he said. “There’s a very dry, beautiful mountain (Mont Sainte-Victoire

undergraduate.  “I didn’t really know what I wanted to study. Philosophy was something I had always interacted with but didn’t really have a name for. Then I took this philosophy class and it was like oh, this is what I have been interested in.” Dr. Arnold says, “Broadly speaking, all areas of the academy and education have elements of philosophy to them. You could do the philosophy of just about anything: physics, religion, literature etc. I don’t think philosophy is done only in its department. The way it

the idea for the book while they were doing research together at the Folger Shakespeare Library a few years ago. “We were doing some research into handwriting and paleography, but we realized that we both had an interest in consciousness and what it meant to be awake and what it meant to be asleep, and the philosophical implications of that, as they manifested in literature.” Professor Nancy Simpson-Younger Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance CoEdited by Nancy

teaching career in earnest. After spending most of my life in the Midwest, I loved being out on the west coast, especially the San Francisco Bay Area. Being a composer working with programmers, engineers, artists, and game designers taught me a lot about collaboration and teams.  We were trying to come up with unique game worlds. Music and sound were key elements in this process. So whether it was a shooting game that needed an action/thriller score, a Medieval fantasy game that required an epic

important to help them understand that the idea of the liberal arts is rooted in ancient Greek and Roman culture and the term describes those skills and subjects that were deemed necessary for the education of free people—libera being the Latin root for liberty. In the medieval period, those arts were identified with seven subjects—grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. I like to refer to these by name to emphasize that the liberal arts have always included the sciences

and how it is used in literature since her time as an undergraduate student at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. It began with a teacher who brought to life 18th century British novels – and in particular, the role women played in the development of such novels. Her interest in understanding how women are portrayed, led Ramos to become interested in how language is used to describe other things. “When I was in grad school, I started to focus my work on animals and how they are portrayed in

., a small town which clings a point of land on the Olympic Peninsula. Each is carrying a sensitive directional microphone aimed at the canopy of a Sitka Spruce stand. About 100 feet above the trail, a chit-chit-chit sound drifts down. It’s the call of a particular type of North American Crossbill-unglamorously named “call type 10.” Predictably, the types range from one through ten, with type 10, the elusive bird over our head, having been described in scientific literature only 18 months ago

pyramids. Click to view larger. For students of literature, it can be thrilling to see how the people and places in a work of fiction can crossover into the real world. This is especially true for books where location plays an important role, such as in James Joyce’s classic, Ulysses. Using a map like the one below, students can follow, chapter-by-chapter, as the protagonists journey around real-life Dublin. Click on the locations in this interactive map to see how context has been applied. Likewise

project? My capstone project was very much inspired by my passion for plant science, food security and agriculture. I completed my capstone project last spring, where I wrote a literature review focusing on genetic engineering mechanisms to combat environmental stressors — such as flooding and drought — in important agricultural crops … food security is being threatened by the severe weather patterns as a result of climate change. One potential solution to the severe crop losses, loss of food security