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Latest NewsSeptember 13, 2024

The range of recently launched degree programs reflects what students, the workforce, and the world need and want to become ever better.

Triptych of the 2023 Goergen Award recipients: Whitney Gegg-Harrison, Jack Downey, and James McGrath.
October 25, 2023

Whitney Gegg-Harrison, Jack Downey, and James McGrath approach undergraduate teaching at 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ in distinctive ways that resonate with their students.

Jack Downey seated at a desk in a classroom teaching with two students seated with their laptops out of focus in the background.
October 25, 2023

The associate professor of religion helps shape the perspectives of his undergraduates not only at the University, but also at area prisons.

Student holding camera stands in front of a case full of human skulls at a dark tourism destination.
January 19, 2023

Julia Granato crisscrossed Europe to study human bone collection and display sites. Now she’s pondering what it means to display and visit human remains.

Exterior of Attica Correctional Facility, where prison education courses take place.
December 15, 2022

The Mellon Foundation has renewed its support for the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Education Justice Initiative with an additional three-year, $1 million grant.

portrait of Emil Homerin
January 11, 2021

A leading scholar of Sufi poetry and mysticism, Emil Homerin is remembered by his students and colleagues for his enthusiasm and generosity

professor teaching prison inmates
June 12, 2020

The University's cornerstone prison education initiative receives a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand and further develop its programming.

illustration of Dean A. Miller
April 3, 2019

Friends and colleagues are remembering Dean A. Miller, a professor emeritus of history with a secondary appointment in religion and classics, for his 30-year career at 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, and for his scholarship, character, and generosity.

students and professors in a crowded lab, flooded with blue light
March 19, 2019

Professor Gregory Heyworth and his digital media students are using different wavelengths of light to reveal illegible text that could create a sacred, tangible link with Jewish congregations lost to the Holocaust.

protester at an march against anti-antisemitism holds a sign with a swastika crossed out in red
November 29, 2018

Listening to the news, it can feel as though acts of violence—particularly violence inspired by bigotry and hate—are on the rise, and unfortunately the numbers back that up. How are we to make sense of this rise? Three 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ researchers sat down for an academic conversation about hate and intolerance, discussing reactions to recent incidents of hate, important lessons from history, and the psychology of stereotypes and intolerance.