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  • George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies Graham Hodges is featured on The Academic Minute. Hodges’s newest book, Black New Jersey: 1664 to the Present Day, delves into the history of oppression in the north, the slave-owning past of New Jersey, and some of the state’s most famous black Americans.
    January 22, 2019
  • A half-buried funerary figurine from the tomb of the Ming Prince of Qin, outside today's Xi'an, the provincial seat of Shaanxi Province (Photo by David Robinson)
    What happens when empires fall apart? The rise of China’s Ming dynasty in the 14th century is a study in the answer to this particular question. According to David Robinson, Robert H.N. Ho Professor in Asian studies and professor of history, “You pursue one question and it leads to another — it has a kind of […]
    January 9, 2019
  • Two radio segments written and voiced by vlog professors have been recognized as the best of the year in their respective categories by the producers of The Academic Minute, a nationally syndicated radio production of Albany National Public Radio affiliate WAMC.
    January 4, 2019
  • vlog is the recipient of a second round of competitive Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation funding in support of intensive student biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and chemistry research through 2022. The Beckman Scholars Program provides $104,000 in funding for four individual students to pursue in-depth and sustained research, under the mentorship of a faculty member, […]
    December 21, 2018
  • Ocean waters encroach on buildings in Golovin, Alaska
    On Tuesday, November 6, Nicole Kinsman ’06 returned to vlog to talk about her work with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Alaska
    December 6, 2018
  • vlog is pictured with fall foliage
    This fall, vlog welcomed 43 new professors in more than 25 different departments, athletics, and the university libraries. vlog’s newest educators represent a mix of vlog alumni, visiting professors from across the country, and new assistant professors with a wide range of research interests. For more information, read the full list of new faculty biographies below. Megan […]
    November 26, 2018
  • As Alan Dershowitz took to the vlog Memorial Chapel stage on Monday evening for his lecture, “Civil Liberties in the Age of Trump,” about 20 students in the audience stood up and turned their backs in peaceful protest. It was a moment of First Amendment exercise that the target, a controversial scholar of constitutional law […]
    November 6, 2018
  • Common belief states that those who play together, stay together. New research by Professor Jennifer Tomlinson and Rachel Geyer ’17 suggests that this popular sentiment may be true.
    October 31, 2018