David Tavárez, Professor of Anthropology, was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for a project entitled Word, Time, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico: The Zapotec Books of the Cosmos. Vassar Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2017.
The developmental period from adolescence to adulthood is accompanied by a greater vulnerability to addictions -- including alcohol use disorders -- than is seen in other periods of life. This increased risk may be due to genetic predisposition, poor impulse control, or heightened sensitivity of the still-developing brain to drug-related toxicity. This report describes a study in mice of the neurobehavioral impact of chronic, intermittent alcohol-vapor exposure during adolescence, in an effort to model periodic heavy drinking and compare it with similar drinking behavior during adulthood.
Students in history prof. Rebecca Edwards’s class looked at the current presidential election in historical perspective, discovering that both the issues and the tactics have roots in American political history.
Taneisha Means, Assistant Professor of Political, was quoted in a Miscellany News story about mass incarceration, recidivism and jail/prison diversion.
Chemistry professor Joseph Tanski was mentioned in a Chemical & Engineering News story about the rarity of having X-ray diffraction technology in undergraduate classrooms.
7,500 pages of documents—many of them recently declassified—chronicle Henry Kissinger’s role as chief negotiator at the Vietnam Peace Talks. History prof. Robert Brigham and Ford Scholar Michaela Coplen ’17 spent the summer digging through them.
As a result of the Dawes Act of 1887, 90 million acres of Native American reservation lands in the West were sold to non-Indians. Ford scholar Courtney Geiss ’18 is researching federal records to study the role played by the federal agents who enforced the law.
