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Section: Big Ideas

Read This in Fall 2021

Fall 2021

Three book recommendations from faculty in chemistry, sociology, and comparative thought and literature.

Poems as Disrupters

Fall 2021

Homewood Professor of the Arts Andrew Motion discusses his 14th volume of poetry, big questions...

The Search for Dark Matter

Fall 2021

Assistant Professor Danielle Speller discusses her new lab and her front-running research for dark matter...

Syllabus: From Idea to Animation

Spring 2021

Students created hand-drawn characters and videos for Karen Yasinsky’s Animating Cartoons course last semester.

Words of Faith

Spring 2021

Niloofar Haeri, professor of anthropology and chair of the Krieger School’s Program in Islamic Studies,...

What’s Old is New Again

Spring 2021

Emily Anderson, assistant professor of classics, and her team of 11 students are examining how...

Applications-Agnostic

Spring 2021

Assistant Professor Thomas Kempa uses chemistry as a tool to sculpt nano and quantum materials,...