The Explanation for Everything, the newest novel from Lauren Grodstein, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing and Graduate Director of the Creative Writing program, explores the debate between Darwinism and intelligent design through the lens of a college professor and the student he is advising on a research project. Learn more about The Explanation … Continue reading Lauren Grodstein Publishes New Novel…
Category: Faculty News
IndaPlant Project Allows Plants to Move Freely on Robotic Carriages
Learn more about the project that Elizabeth Demaray, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, is working on at Rutgers-Camden NewsNow: https://news.camden.rutgers.edu/2013/09/branching-out-indaplant-project-allows-plants-to-move-freely-on-robotic-carriages/
Dr. Robert Emmons: Rotary Peace Fellow
Dr. Robert Emmons, the associate director of the FASC Digital Studies Center, which will open this academic year, worked as a Rotary Peace Fellow in Bangkok, Thailand, over the summer. Check out the video he made about his experience abroad!
Win a copy of Lauren Grodstein’s new novel or Chinelo Okparanta’s new collection of short stories!
Wouldn’t you love to curl up with a good book? In honor of next week’s reading, which will feature Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing Lauren Grodstein and Graduate School-Camden alumna Chinelo Okparanta, we are giving away a copy of Ms. Grodstein’s new novel, The Explanation for Everything, and Ms. Okparanta’s new short story … Continue reading Win a copy of Lauren Grodstein’s new novel or Chinelo Okparanta’s new collection of short stories!…
Researchers Calculate Cell Chemical Reaction Rates Using Gene Expression
Dr. Desmond Lun, Associate Professor of Computer Science and chair of the Department of Computer Science, and Min Kyung Kim, a doctoral student in computational and integrative biology, are using a cell’s genes to research the way cells react with chemicals. Read the full article at NewsNow.
Dr. Janet Golden Pens Article on the Place of Religion in American Medical History
Dr. Janet Golden, Professor of History, recently wrote an article titled “‘Modern Medical Science and the Divine Providence of God’: Rethinking the Place of Religion in Postwar U.S. Medical History,” which examines how many parents who experienced the death of children during the postwar period relied heavily on religion to help make sense of the … Continue reading Dr. Janet Golden Pens Article on the Place of Religion in American Medical History…
Dr. Joan Maya Mazelis Presents Two Papers During American Sociological Association Annual Meeting
Dr. Joan Maya Mazelis (assistant professor, CFAS-sociology) presented a paper, “Sustainable Ties: Social Support among the Poor” at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in August, 2013, in New York. She also presented “We Are the 99 Percent: The Rise of Poverty and the Decline of Poverty Stigma” at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting … Continue reading Dr. Joan Maya Mazelis Presents Two Papers During American Sociological Association Annual Meeting…
Faculty News: August 9, 2013
Dr. Cati Coe (associate professor, CFAS-anthropology) is a coeditor of the book The Anthropology of Sibling Relations: Shared Parentage, Experience, and Exchange (Palgrave, 2013). She also had a chapter published in Child Fosterage in West Africa: New Perspectives on Theories and Practices regarding a series of court cases in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) over the … Continue reading Faculty News: August 9, 2013…
New Faculty Member Dr. Chinyere Osuji Receives Honor
Dr. Chinyere Osuji, who joins the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in September as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, has received an Emerging Diversity Scholar citation from the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID).
Dr. Holly Blackford Links Homosexual Stereotype With Victorian-Era Sexology, Dorian Gray and Peter Pan
Dr. Holly Blackford, Professor of English, recently wrote an article, “Childhood and Greek Love: Dorian Gray and Peter Pan,” published in Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, that links a homosexual stereotype with Victorian-era sexology and the novels Dorian Gray and Peter Pan. Read the full article at NewsNow.