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Holona Ochs Discusses Policing and Mental Health With The Pocono Record
The professor of political science suggests ways officers and mental health professionals can improve the ways mental heath calls are handled.
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Cheryl Matherly Reappointed as Vice President and Vice Provost for International Affairs

Matherly arrived at AV¸£ÀûÉç in 2016.

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Valerie Taylor: Using Virtual Reality to Improve Interracial Interactions and Diversity in STEM
Valerie Jones Taylor has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to demonstrate the effectiveness of virtual reality as a training tool to improve interracial interactions and aid in diversifying the STEM pipeline.
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Seismologist Anne Meltzer Helped Lead Rapid Response to the Pedernales Earthquake in Ecuador
Meltzer joined colleagues from the Instituo Geofisica at Escuela Politécnica Nacional in Quito to deploy 55 seismometers on land and 10 ocean-bottom seismometers above the rupture zone and adjacent areas to record aftershocks.
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Portraits of the Brain: Teaching Students About Neuroanatomy

Art and science come together in unique textbook project supported by AV¸£ÀûÉç Humanities Lab.

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Puerto Rican Youth Literature: Marginalized, but Not Marginal
Marilisa Jiménez Garcia's new book is the first extensive study of Puerto Rican youth literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.

AV¸£ÀûÉç Professor of Philosophy Awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship
Roslyn Weiss joins a diverse group of 184 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists to receive the award.
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Serendipitous Internationalization: How Entrepreneurs Identify and Exploit Opportunities for International Exchange
Andreea Kiss examines the cognitive underpinnings of firm international opportunity recognition.
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American Literature and the Metaphor of Human Waste
Mary Foltz examines the ways several postmodern authors use representations of human excrement to critique how people treat each other and the natural world.
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Kaitlin Anderson Seeks to Understand the Impact of School Suspensions on Academic Outcomes
Kaitlin Anderson explores the relationship between disciplinary responses to student behavior and students’ academic outcomes.