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Dirt road in a Colombian landscape at sunrise with fog between the mountains in the background.

Land Laundering on Narco-Frontiers

Jacob KushnerJuly 2, 2019

By combining academic ethnography with techniques from his earlier career as an investigative journalist, Ballvé believes we can see through such deceptions—as well as false perceptions--to help restore faith in governance in post-conflict places like rural Colombia.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the garden of the Presidential villa during the Casablanca Conference

When Allies Lie

Michael BlandingJuly 2, 2019

In a recent paper, written with Jonathan Brown of Sam Houston State University and Alex Farrington of the University of Oregon, Professor Danielle Lupton explores why countries may want to intentionally fool their friends.

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Crane Shot: Professor CJ Hauser on Researching Research for Her Novel Family of Origin

CJ HauserJuly 2, 2019

Before I began work on Family of Origin, I had started to write a kind of dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel out of a state of despair. Then, I decided to interrogate my own thoughts about pessimism instead.

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Rudolph Valentino plays a guitar for Nita Naldi on the set of the silent film Blood and Sand, 1922

Pulling Back the Curtain on Silent Movie Prologues

Kristin Baird RattiniJuly 2, 2019

When you go to the movies these days, your feature film is always preceded by previews for other upcoming motion pictures. But back in the heyday of silent film...

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Close up of an human hand holding a black version of an Apple iPad Mini and IPhone 6 showing the graphs on the screen.

Bandwidth for Change

Michael BlandingJuly 2, 2019

In honor of its impact, the paper “Power Awareness in Network Design and Routing” — co-authored by Professor of Computer Science Joel Sommers — was just awarded a 2019 IEEE INFOCOM Test of Time Paper Award.

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Leap’s Island

CJ HauserJuly 2, 2019

The southside beach Gates took them to was nicer than Ian’s. There was surf, and pipers ran along the shore like urgent children. Esther Stein and Gates were ne...

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Lift Every Voice and Read

Kristin Baird RattiniMarch 28, 2019

For the uninitiated, rhetoric might seem a relic of ancient Greece and Rome, as set in stone as marble busts of Aristotle and Cicero. Colgate Associate Professo...

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Outdoor Education Staff Members Austin Sun '18 and Sabrina Farmer rock climb at Moss Island crag in Little Falls.

Excerpt: For the Love of Metaphysics

Karin NisenbaumMarch 28, 2019

Central to the perfectionist outlook is the view that the process of individuation is one whereby “the self is always attained, as well as to be attained;” the self is always beside itself, yet in such a way that “each state of the self is, so to speak, final.”

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La Primavera - by Sandro Botticelli, 1482 - Alamy

Renaissance Masters Offer Insights into 3D Computer Graphics

Michael BlandingMarch 28, 2019

When Elodie Fourquet was a graduate student in computer science at the University of Waterloo in Canada, she was charged with creating a T-shirt for a computer ...

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Barnacles at Napatree Point Conservation Area in the Watch Hill area of Westerly, Rhode Island.

Finding Inspiration in the Lowly Barnacle

Michael BlandingMarch 28, 2019

For most of us, barnacles are barely noticed — just some shells that blend into the rocks at the beach. For ship owners, they are a nuisance, adhering to ships’...

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