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In the Media

Chemistry professor Joseph Tanski was mentioned in a Chemical & Engineering News story about the rarity of having X-ray diffraction technology in undergraduate classrooms.

7,500 pages of documents—many of them recently declassified—chronicle Henry Kissinger’s role as chief negotiator at the Vietnam Peace Talks. History prof. Robert Brigham and Ford Scholar Michaela Coplen ’17 spent the summer digging through them.

Ford Scholars

As a result of the Dawes Act of 1887, 90 million acres of Native American reservation lands in the West were sold to non-Indians. Ford scholar Courtney Geiss ’18 is researching federal records to study the role played by the federal agents who enforced the law.

“This article presents a short introductory analysis and appreciation of one the most outstanding and remarkable translations from German literature into the Chinese language from the last decades, the translation of the late hymns of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) by the Chinese scholar and translator Liu Haoming.”
—Hans Peter Hoffmann. Published online 2016-06-07. arcadia: International Journal of Literary Culture / Internationale Zeitschrift für literarische Kultur

Interview after public lecture, organized by the Archaeological Institute of America, at the Houston Museum of Natural Science to inaugurate the exhibit The Virgin of Guadalupe: Empress of the Americas.