Faculty in Focus
- With results still being counted, threats of lawsuits and some suggesting it could be days or even weeks before the presidential race is resolved, election night was far from decisive. But a few things did emerge as certain.
- ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ LISA 2020 project was designed to foster 20 statistics labs in the developing world by 2020; the latest count is 28.
- Violist Richard O'Neill is joining the College of Music faculty and the Takács Quartet this year.
- The director of ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ's Natural Hazards Center speaks from personal experience as an evacuee of the Calwood Fire when she warns others: "the time is now to make provisions for whatever risks you may face."
- In a new book, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ's Anand Sokhey details his research on whether yard signs work, what they say about us and how they shape our neighborhoods.
- A new book from Associate Professor Nicole Mansfield Wright explores the impact of literature about privilege and victimhood on our era.
- New faculty members, many of whom recently attended a Faculty Affairs orientation, bring to ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ expertise in everything from bioinspired robotics and indigenous religious traditions to Vikings and the dynamics of climate variability and change.
- The pandemic upended schools in the spring of 2020, sending students and faculty home. With an NSF RAPID grant, JILA Fellow Heather Lewandowski asked instructors what worked—and what didn't—as they moved their lab courses online.
- After working remotely, engineering researchers are gradually and safely returning to campus to continue their work in the lab. Assistant Professor Kaushik Jayaram shares his experience.
- Carla Fredericks, an associate professor of law, helped organize a campaign that changed the NFL.