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University Staff Council Presents Larry Atkins Awards

On April 21, the USC celebrated this year’s three exceptional winners of the Larry Atkins Award. Nominees for the award are typically the unsung heroes of their departments who always go above and beyond to help and to set a positive example for the community.The pool of nominees was competitive. Each nomination featured so many […]

Powers Publishes Chapter in Edited Volume

Scott Powers, Professor of French, published an essay on ecofeminism in contemporary fiction of Quebec entitled “L’écoféminisme d’Audrée Wilhelmy. Le ‘devenir-animal’ de la femme dans Le corps des bêtes.” The essay appears as a chapter in the edited volume  Animal et animalité : stratégies de représentation dans les littératures d’expression française (Classiques Garnier, 2022).

Barrenechea Receives Research Fellowship

Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, was recently awarded the 2022-2023 Reese Fellowship in American Bibliography and History of the Book in the Americas, from the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. His project “One Hemisphere Many Nations: Boltonian Americanism and Literary Historiography” will explore the Herbert Bolton archive in relation to the emergence of […]

Farnsworth Lectures on Presidential Communication

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of Political Science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented an online lecture, “Presidents, Presidential Candidates and Shaping the Public Discourse,” to political science and communication students at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The talk drew on Professor Farnsworth’s recently published book, Presidential Communication and Character: White House […]

Larus Comments on Ukraine War on Vietnam News

Elizabeth Freund Larus, Professor Emerita of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, offered commentary on Russia’s war in Ukraine on Vietnam News. Dr. Larus claimed that Ukraine and Russia are locked in a war of attrition and that the war is going to last months or perhaps years. Dr. Larus indicated that supplying […]