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Haiti expert Colin Dayan is available to discuss the aftermath of the devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti that has killed tens of thousands and affected 3 million Haitians. Dayan, whose mother and other family members are Haitian, spent the first two decades of her career studying Haiti and is the author of Haiti, History, and the Gods. She can speak on most aspects of Haitian history, including the theory brought up by evangelist Pat Robertson that a pact with the devil by Haitian slaves in 1791 is responsible for the disaster. Read More

Seth Bordenstein, assistant professor of biological sciences at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, is studying the relationship between this parasitic bacteria and Nasonia, a genus of small wasps that prey on various species of flies, including houseflies, blowflies and flesh flies. Read More

An article by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ‘s Robert Whaley explaining the Chicago Board Options Exchange‘s volatility index received the Best Article award as voted by subscribers of Institutional Investor Inc.‘s The Journal of Portfolio Management. Read More

President Barack Obama, unlike George W. Bush, is not likely to enjoy a surge in public approval after terrorism threats, according to research by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ political scientist Elizabeth Zechmeister and her colleague. Zechmeister, assistant professor of political science at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, and Jennifer Merolla, associate professor at Claremont Graduate University, are the co-authors of Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public (University of Chicago Press). Read More

The spring 2010 International Lens film series launches Jan. 20 at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ‘s Sarratt Cinema and continues through April. All the screenings are free and open to the public. Read More

What would it take to change the lives of poor children – not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? Answering that question led Geoffrey Canada to create the Harlem Children‘s Zone, a 97-block laboratory where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. It is based on his belief that if you really want to change the lives of inner-city kids, you have to change everything all at once – their schools, families and neighborhoods. Read More

In the middle of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ campus are the Mayfield Lodges. Unlike traditional residence halls, Mayfields are a series of lodges that include 10 single bedrooms, a common area, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a full-sized refrigerator. However, Mayfields are not only special in their design, but also in their purpose; the Mayfield lodges serve as "living and learning lodges" and the residents at each lodge participate in a service learning project. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ continues its Saturday University series this spring, with five lectures by faculty focusing on works of art in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Fine Arts Collection. Read More

Two Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ professors have issued the fourth edition of their iconic textbook, Advanced Accounting (John Wiley and Sons). The authors, Debra Jeter and Paul Chaney, say each new edition adapts to changes in accounting standards and laws. Read More

Derek John Waller, a retired Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ political scientist who taught and wrote extensively about the politics of Communist China, died on Dec. 31, 2009. The Sewanee, Tenn., resident, who was 72, had suffered from pancreatic cancer. Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Douglas A. Blackmon will deliver the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture on Jan. 19 at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Law School. The event, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for 3:30 pm in Flynn Auditorium. Read More

An article by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's Robert Whaley explaining the Chicago Board Options Exchange's volatility index was among the leading global financial articles of 2009 in Institutional Investor Journals. Read More

Americans value preventing deaths from terrorist attacks almost twice as much as they value preventing deaths from natural disasters, according to a study by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ economist W. Kip Viscusi. Read More

Bill Ivey, director of The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, will speak about leadership Jan. 28 at a breakfast. Read More

Three years ago, when the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to dwarf planet status, the unpopular decision was based on personal opinions and professional politics, not on rigorous scientific criteria that can clearly differentiate planets from lesser bodies, points out Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ astronomer David Weintraub. In the next decade, however, the amount of knowledge that we have about Pluto and another dwarf planet, Ceres, will change dramatically and this new information may affect our views of these objects and their status in the solar system as asteroids, dwarf planets or planets. Read More

One of the best things the world can do to promote peace and stability in the coming century is to expand commercial nuclear power based on the extraction of uranium from the ocean. That is the proposition which Frank Parker, an internationally recognized expert in remediation of radioactively contaminated soil and water and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, advanced at an exclusive meeting held at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican last month. Read More

Professor of Special Education Carolyn Hughes has won a $30,000 grant from the Organization for Autism Research to fund a pilot project that will help high school students with autism become more included and involved in their schools and with their peers. Read More

The Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) along with Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Athletics will offer recycling at all Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ men's and women's home basketball games, beginning Saturday, Jan. 2, with the game against Southern Mississippi. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Kelly Holley-Bockelmann has been awarded the National Science Foundation's largest ever Faculty Early Career Development grant in the field of astronomy. She will use the prestigious award to continue her studies of black holes while supporting the university's innovative program designed to make the university the top producer of underrepresented minorities with Ph.D.s in physics and astronomy. Read More

A workshop on transformational leadership will be held Jan. 16 at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ. The public is invited to the 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. event in the reading room of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Divinity School, 411 21st Ave. S. Read More