Elly R. Truitt, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science, discusses the history of robots and automata in medieval Latin culture, the impulses that drove their creation, and shared characteristics with modern-day robots.
What the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History is looking forward to reading this summer.
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
by Katelyn Silva
Discover the stories behind the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Africana Studies’ office items—in her own words.
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Photography by Brooke Sietinsons
From beach grass to fallen leaves, Philip A. Rea, Professor of Biology, uses a camera to give a new view of the things around us.
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
By Susan Ahlborn
Friday, February 3, 2023
Discover the stories behind the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Religious Studies’ office items—in his own words.
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Discover the stories behind the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Africana Studies’ office items—in her own words.
Thursday, October 27, 2022
A sampling of some of our spookiest stories.
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
From beach grass to fallen leaves, Philip A. Rea, Professor of Biology, uses a camera to give a new view of the things around us.
Friday, March 30, 2018
Carmen Maria Machado, Writer-in-Residence at Kelly Writers House, combines science fiction, horror, folk tales, and pop culture references in stories that are utterly modern and unabashedly focused on female experience. Her debut collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award.
Thursday, February 3, 2022
The Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy on his early love of biology, his turn into the philosophy of science, and his educational journey from Nashville to Cornell to Stanford.
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
The Lauder Professor of Political Science on his journey from Ireland to Nigeria to Northern Ireland to England to the U.S., and what he learned along the way.
Friday, March 30, 2018
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