Research

 “The Insect Apocalypse Is Here!” This is not a blockbuster starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, but the title of a November 2018 New York Times editorial that summarized some worrying trends in biodiversity conservation. Several recent studies from places as different as South American jungles and Germany have documented […]

Linguistics graduate students Irene Soto, Sofía Fernandez and Carla Consolini presented individually at the prestigious Second Language Research Forum last October in Montréal, Canada. They also attended presentations by famous scholars in the field of second language acquisition, such as Dr. Rod Ellis and Dr. Aneta Pavlenko, among others. Soto’s presentation […]

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Fredette and Dr. Kathleen Sullivan for being chosen as the recipients of funding from the Center for Law, Justice & Culture Research Fund. Fredette and Sullivan are both faculty affiliates of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture and associate professors in Political Science. The research […]

Dr. Dawn Bikowski, Director the English Language Improvement Program’s Academic & Global Communication Program, gave the keynote address at the “International Conference on Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages” in Hanoi, Vietnam. Bikowski was invited by Vietnam National University: University of Languages and International Studies. In attendance were nearly 400 teachers […]

Dinty Moore, Professor and Director of Creative Writing, co-edited a new book, Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine, published by University of Nebraska Press. He is also currently serving as the Mary Rogers Field and Marion Field-McKenna Distinguished University Professor of Creative Writing at DePauw University […]

Dr. Joshua Hill, Assistant Professor of History, recently published Voting as a Rite: A History of Elections in Modern China with Harvard University Press. The book offers an in-depth study of the intellectual and cultural history of elections in modern China. Hill covers the period from the Opium War to the present […]

Dr. Ashwini Ganeshan, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Modern Languages Department, published an article on the impact of service learning on students’ understanding of the Spanish verbal aspect. Ganeshan co-authored the article with Dr. Cecilia Tocaimaza-Hatch of the University of Nebraska Omaha Foreign Languages and Literature Department. The article, […]