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Faculty Spotlight: Christopher Nielson
by Jack Belli
"I sat and heard the music and saw the leaves dance while the trees swayed in perfect rhythm. I experienced it all and realized afterwards that I had momentarily entered the world of Wordsworth when he says, “I heard a thousand blended notes,” and I realized that I, too, was hearing them for the first time."
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Faculty Spotlight
2/4/2008
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Faculty Spotlight: Judith Stornolio
by Robert Tyson
"The main thrust of my research is how the individual sees himself. How that individual sees their world and how they see other people. The more that I study in anthropology, the more I realize that self-identity is everything."
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Faculty Spotlight
12/28/2007
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Faculty Spotlight: David Flood
by Kevin Jordan, Jr.
"Another area I want to work on during sabbatical time is stories about organ transplantation -- especially the issue of procurement of organs... We have the technology to save lives by transplanting organs, but not enough organs are made available by our system of donation. Every year, many people die while on waiting lists."
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Faculty Spotlight
12/28/2007
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Faculty Spotlight: Brenda Dyer
by Theodora Marcantonis
"I think you have to want to learn it... You have to have something that is beyond the intellectual interest to make it your own. In some way or another you identify with a culture that speaks that language. That is the key."
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Faculty Spotlight
12/28/2007
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Faculty Spotlight: Aliester Saunders
by Robert Tyson
"Think about what Drexel stands for: active learning, and the interaction between the classroom and practical world. And I think this is an archetype for that. Those kinds of different learning environments are what make an education at Drexel so valuable. This defines what a Drexel education is in a building."
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Faculty Spotlight
12/28/2007
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Faculty Spotlight: Gordon Richards
by Theodora Marcantonis
"We want to see objects that are dimmer and further away. Objects that already tend to be dim are the ones that are further back in time. Those are the interesting ones. We look at objects that are very different. You’re seeing the light from them as they looked billions of years ago."
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Faculty Spotlight
6/4/2007
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Faculty Spotlight: Jack Maxwell
by Francis Viscomi
"One of Philadelphia’s oldest unsolved cases is 'The Boy in the Box' from 50 years ago. Retired investigators Bill Kelly and Joe McGillen will be doing a presentation for my students on this case."
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Faculty Spotlight
6/4/2007
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Faculty Spotlight: Alan Bandy
by Francis Viscomi
"An Inconvenient Truth is not good science because it ignores cooling. It speaks to it being an atmospheric phenomenon, whereas it's likely ocean-related. It's really comparing apples and oranges when comparing the use of measurable results to predictions based on models."
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Faculty Spotlight
5/25/2007
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Faculty Spotlight: Jean-Claude Bradley
by Francis Viscomi
"Well, I believe in "open source" science research... Blogs and Wikis have ushered in a new era in being able to share what people are currently working on in the field. Specifically, reading about the failures (most lab experiments fail upon testing) can help us better understand what we’re doing in our own work."
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Faculty Spotlight
1/27/2007
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Faculty Spotlight: Don Riggs
by Herb Shallcross
"And I guess since I was seeing poetry, and reciting it, I just started writing it in sort of imitation. And the rest is not quite history."
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Faculty Spotlight
12/8/2006
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Faculty Spotlight: Robert D'Ovidio
by Stacy Stanislaw
"Dr. D’Ovidio sat down with ASK’s Stacy Stanislaw to answer a few questions about his past work with the NYPD, and his current project, creating a multi-university program for Criminal Justice."
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Faculty Spotlight
8/27/2006
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Faculty Spotlight: Scott Knowles
by Stacy Stanislaw
"[The Great Works Symposium] is an attempt to try to get professors with different backgrounds and expertise and perspectives in the same class, and to get students from different colleges to come in and look at a topic in a different way."
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Faculty Spotlight: Diamantino Machado
by Amy Weaver
"...my approach to life yesterday and today was profoundly determined by ... poverty and the political dictatorship that ruled Portugal from the 1930s to 1974."
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Faculty Spotlight: Aleister Saunders
by Stacy Stanislaw
"You have to be able to get up in the morning after having a failure or failures and say, 'Look, I've had these failures, but I want to do it again; and I want to do this experiment again ... and try to make this work.'"
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