Penguin Classics asked Gage McWeeny, assistant professor of English to provide a short piece on teaching a favorite book for their monthly newsletter and Facebook page. Read his newsletter essay on “Bleak House” here (the essay is near the bottom of the page). “And, here’s the Facebook page,” he wrote, “featuring an image of me looking [...]
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Low-income Americans are less likely to be married. Recent research by Assistant Professor of Economics Tara Watson suggests that low-income people wait on marriage while striving for higher economic status, with that status determined by the peer group. “Nevertheless, the analysis indicates that half of the marriage gap between high- and low-income men is determined [...] Frederick Strauch, assistant professor of physics, has been awarded a Cottrell College Science Award of $40,218 in support of his research “Efficient Quantum Rounting in Superconducting Qubit Networks.” Math professor Edward Burger has been appointed by the Chancellor of the University of North Carolina School for the Arts to serve on the Board of their Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts (www.kenanarts.org). A new collection of poems of by Lawrence Raab, the Morris Professor of Rhetoric, has just been published by Penguin. The book is called “The History of Forgetting,” his seventh collection of poems. Poems in the book have appeared in a variety of magazines, including The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, [...] |
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