Faculty
Moving in Circles: Path Cells Show the Way
Psychologist Michael Kahana identifies a type of brain cell that senses direction.
In Search of the Best Medicine for Depression
New research explores why different patients respond better to different treatments.
Examining Religion's Past With an Eye on the Present
Associate Professor of Sociology Melissa Wilde looks to policies of the past and how they've shaped the current religious landscape.
The Big Thaw
Geologist Doug Jerolmack and students track landscape degradation in Alaska.
Cognition Without Control
Neuroscientist Sharon Thompson-Schill shows that a little bit of frontal lobe goes a long way in learning.
Semper Zen
Cognitive neuroscientist Amishi Jha studies mindfulness training for military preparedness.
Actuarial Criminology
Criminologist Richard Berk designs software aimed at reducing recidivism.
Math Mystery
Mathematicians Phillip Gressman and Robert Strain solve a 140-year old equation describing the motion of gas molecules.
Confederate Reckoning
Historian Stephanie McCurry tells how women and slaves drove old Dixie down.
Crash! Bang! Reflect
English professor Nancy Bentley probes the artistic dimensions of shock and awe.
Fictional Realities
Historian Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet's debut novel chronicles lives upended by the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.
Ancient Rome and America
Roman historian Campbell Grey helps curate exhibition exploring America's Roman inheritance.
Ancient Cylinder Seal
Art historian Holly Pittman analyzes the oldest seal found on the Arabian Peninsula.
The Real Thing
Music professor co-curates Smithsonian exhibit on the history of Harlem's Apollo Theater.
The Deaths of Seneca
Classical scholar James Ker presents the first comprehensive cultural history of one of antiquity's most studied death scenes.