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The awards rolled in for history major and all-American Melvin Ejim

There’s a reason why history major and all-America basketball player Melvin Ejim’s image adorns Catt Hall. Sure, the long, cold winter didn’t encourage us to replace his photo and Amy Andreotti’s with a new set of exemplary Liberal Arts and Sciences people (banners can crack rather than bend in freezing temps, and fingers do get … Continue reading The awards rolled in for history major and all-American Melvin Ejim

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Three LAS faculty with political science appointments earn prestigious research awards

Amy Erica Smith, an assistant professor of political science, has earned a Fulbright Award to conduct research in Brazil, and James McCormick, professor and chair of political science, has earned a Fulbright to do research and to lecture in Australia. In addition, Nell Gabiam, an assistant professor of anthropology and political science, has earned a Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to continue her scholarly examination of Syria’s Palestinian refugee camps.

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Meta!Blast video game earns NSF’s SciVis People’s Choice Award

Meta!Blast, a real-time 3D game targeted towards high schoolers, leads the player to shrink to microscopic size, traverse a leaf surface, rescue a tardigrade, zap nematodes, sneak into the leaf through an open stomata, and shrink further to enter a photosynthetic cell and its organelles. Along the way, the player must solve problems and answer questions about cell and metabolic biology.