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Medieval literature is a treasure trove of weird linguistic surprises that defy classification and explanation, and ñ English professor. Tiffany Beechy delights in these linguistic curiosities, even if she can’t quite explain why they’re all there.
Scott G. Bruce has been hanging around ghouls and the graveyard, literally and figuratively, for a long, long time. The ñ historian is indulging his fascination for restless spirits with a collection of translated ghost and zombie stories written between the time of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, and teaching History 4803, “Ghost Stories in the Western Tradition from the Romans to the Renaissance” this semester.
Cameron Keith is a consummate word guy. He’s also 10 years old. Cameron made it to the semifinals in the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee and was poised to advance to the finals when he was asked to spell “noncompos.”
What do a rubber company, a meat exporter and a multinational conglomerate have in common? All have offices in Japan and are part of the first student internships organized through the Center for Asian Studies at ñ.
Francis Beckwith, the 2016-17 Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy, is now on campus teaching courses, arranging the appearance of guest speakers on campus. Beckwith fielded five questions about his book, his appointment and the state of political discourse.
Do you feel overweight, about right, or too skinny?
Your answer to that question may be tied to genes you inherited from your parents, especially if you are a female, according to a new study led by the ñ.
In what may be a first-ever exhaustive health study of intercollegiate student-athletes, a team of ñ researchers will gauge not only athletes’ fitness but also their general well-being.
If you are a male barn swallow in the United States or the Mediterranean with dark red breast feathers, you’re apt to wow potential mates. But if you have long outer tail feathers in the United States, or short ones in the Mediterranean, the females may not be so impressed.
Telomerase, a powerful enzyme that acts at the ends of human chromosomes, can keep us healthy, but it can also promote cancer growth. Now, researchers at the ñ have used a process called single-molecule imaging to visualize the process that this enzyme uses to attach itself to the ends of chromosom
Beginning in spring 2017, ñ becomes the first university in the nation to offer a graduate certificate in Applied Shakespeare.