Fall/Winter 2022
Fall/Winter 2022
In this issue of OMNIA, we explore how living matter could impact everything from medicine to robotics. We also spotlight two interdisciplinary research initiatives that provide insight on worldwide climate disasters and water crises, learn how a fateful trip to Eastern Europe inspired a professor to pursue a career studying the impact of war, highlight an initiative that guides students in curating a digital portfolio, follow two students as they create detailed portraits of life around campus, and more.
Features
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Physicists are studying how living matter works, and find that it breaks the standard rules and produces fascinating new phenomena.
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A fateful trip to Eastern Europe in 1989 inspired Kristen Ghodsee, Professor and Chair of Russian and East European Studies, to pursue a career studying the impact of the Cold War and its aftermath on the lives of ordinary people.
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Four programs in the University’s academic community are celebrating anniversaries.
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Students from Senior Lecturer in English Paul Hendrickson’s long-form nonfiction master class share powerful passages from their intensely personal projects.
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In an ambitious new project, Simcha Gross, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, studies hundreds of ancient incantation bowls in the hopes of eventually building a worldwide database.
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Nikhil Anand, Associate Professor of Anthropology, leads two interdisciplinary research initiatives that provide insight on worldwide climate disasters and water crises.
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The B.A.A.S. Senior Portfolio demonstrates LPS students’ transferrable skills to the workplace and beyond.