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Welcome to the latest SAS in Focus, a newsletter that reports what鈥檚 happening in the School of Arts & Sciences.

 

The has named , assistant professor of History and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies coordinator, and , assistant professor, Black Studies, .

The ACLS Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding scholarships in the humanities and social sciences. Awardees were selected from a pool of more than 2,000 applicants through a multi-stage peer review process and represent a broad range of institutions, fields, and career stages.

Ball received the ACLS Fellowship for the projected titled 鈥淧ushing bast GDP Per Capita: Brazilian Maternal Health 1915-75.鈥� The project examines and compares maternal health and childbirth from 1915鈥�1975 for urban and interior spaces in three Brazilian states: S茫o Paulo, Bahia, and Goi谩s.

• Learn more about Ball鈥檚 research on her .

Ealey received the ACLS Fellowship for the project titled 鈥淒issonant Dramaturgy: Black Women鈥檚 Music-Theatre and the Politics of Possibility.鈥� The project examines Black women’s music-theatre in the 19^th聽and 20^th聽centuries聽as a legitimate form of Black feminist intellectual production.

• Learn more about Ealey鈥檚 research on their .

 

Chemistry major Zachary Paine聽鈥�27 has been awarded a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. Paine will spend this summer as an intern at Vividion Therapeutics in San Diego, CA.

罢丑别听聽is a highly competitive national award for high-achieving undergraduate science students who are US citizens. Students are nominated by their college or university. Applicants typically rank in the top quarter of their class while demonstrating outstanding research skills, potential for advanced study in their fields, and a strong commitment to the pursuit of research-oriented careers.

Read more about Paine and other outstanding Goldwater Scholars on the Student Fellowship Office website.

 

Lina Abdou 鈥�26 has received a Projects for Peace grant for her project titled 鈥淧eace as Infrastructure: Strengthening Single-Mother Households in Morocco.鈥�

The project aims to confront the institutional practices and socio-cultural norms undergirding violence against women and create conditions where dignity, safety, and peace are possible. Abdou will collaborate with Association pour l’脡galit茅 et la Citoyennet茅 (ATEC), and the project will include a workshop series focused on reducing exposure to conflict and building non-violent, stable ways of navigating daily life.

蘑菇传媒 is among a select group of academic institutions invited to nominate student-led, grassroots projects focused on conflict transformation and peacebuilding. As a Davis United World Colleges (UWC) Scholars partner institution, 蘑菇传媒 has been nominating students for the Projects for Peace summer grant since 2013. Institutions can nominate two projects, and this year both of 鲍搁辞肠丑别蝉迟别谤鈥檚 nominees were selected. Congratulations to the other recipient, mechanical engineering student Sonia Irakoze 鈥�28.

Learn more about Projects for Peace recipients on the Student Fellowships Office website.

 

This year鈥檚 recipients of the Debra Haring Excellence in Research Award recipients are pioneering faculty members whose research has included significant advancements to better understand and diagnose cancer.

The 2026 honor has been awarded to聽, the Doris Johns Cherry Professor in the聽Department of Biology聽and codirector of the聽聽and the Upstate NY Comparative Biology of Aging Nathan Shock Center,聽聽and posthumously to聽, who was the William F. May Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Professor Parker died in December at the age of 71.

The award memorializes the late Haring, a former assistant dean for grants and contracts who worked tirelessly to advance the research of faculty in the聽School of Arts & Sciences聽and the聽Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences聽before her death in 2022.

Learn more about the 2026 Debra Haring Excellence in Research Award recipients.

 

鲍搁辞肠丑别蝉迟别谤鈥檚 organized a two-day Climate Havens Symposium on April 16 and 17. The symposium, held in collaboration with the Rochester Institute of Technology, featured scholars from across the country and the globe during presentations held at the Humanities Center on day one and RIT on day two.

The impetus for the symposium came from a simple but striking observation, said , associate director of the Humanities Center. 鈥淥ur region is increasingly designated as a 鈥渃limate haven,鈥� a place imagined as safer, more resilient, and better positioned in the face of accelerating environmental change. And yet, despite the growing prominence of this label in policy, planning, and media discourse, we rarely hear sustained engagement from the humanities about what such a designation actually means鈥攐r what it does. The goal of the symposium was to open up that conversation.鈥�

about the Climate Havens Symposium.

 

A new book authored by , assistant professor of Russian in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, is now available in hardcover.

(University of Wisconsin Press, 2026) examines the role of rock music in the last decade of Soviet cinematic production and its reverberations in the Putin era.

 

The held a symposium on April 9 at the Memorial Art Gallery. Sixty students and faculty gathered to discuss quantum initiatives taking shape across the University on quantum technology, quantum education, and quantum coherence.

 

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