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Associate Professor of Chemistry Aaron Leconte Awarded NSF Grant

Associate Professor of Chemistry Aaron Leconte received a five-year, $400,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

In the Media: Professor of Psychology Stacey Wood Writes about Mass-Market Scams in The Conversation

Stacey Wood, professor of psychology and Molly Mason Jones chair in psychology, has shared the results of her research published in聽The Journal of Experimental Psychology聽with The Conversation. She and her co-researchers studied consumer vulnerability to mass-marketing scams.

Awards and Honors: Associate Professor of Politics Vanessa Tyson Awarded Stanford University CASBS Fellowship

Associate Professor of Politics Vanessa Tyson has been awarded a fellowship to attend the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University.

In the Media: Professor of Art聽Ken聽Gonzales-Day Featured in聽Chicago Sun Times聽for Smithsonian Exhibit

The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery is currently showing about 20 works from a series by Professor of Art聽Ken聽Gonzales-Day, as featured in聽The Chicago Sun Times.

61传媒 recently received a $1.5 million gift to establish the Dr. Taro Yamane Chair in Economics.

In the Media: Corey Tazzara on Corporate Tax Breaks in the Washington Post

Drawing on the history of Italian free ports, Assistant Professor of History Corey Tazzara weighed in on the practice of U.S. cities giving corporate tax聽breaks in an op ed in the聽Washington Post.

In the Media: Ken Gonzales-Day in Smithsonian Magazine

Professor of Art聽Ken聽Gonzales-Day’s recent exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., is profiled in聽Smithsonian Magazine. The exhibition,聽“Unseen: Our Past in a New Light,”聽focuses on work by Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar that grapples with “the under- and misrepresentation of certain minorities in portraiture and American history.”

In the Media: Sean Flynn on Steel Tariffs

Sean Flynn, associate professor of economics and chair of the department at Scripps, was聽recently quoted in聽The Daily Bulletin. Flynn was asked to weigh in on how the Trump Administration’s steel tariffs may affect the steel industry in California.

In the Media: Vanessa Tyson on Sexual Harassment in the Senate

Assistant Professor of Politics Vanessa Tyson was quoted by NBC in an article about recent efforts to change the culture of sexual harassment in the Senate.

In the Media: Corey Tazzara on the House of Medici and Free Trade

Assistant Professor of History Corey Tazzara discusses the influence of the Medici dynasty on trade policy in an article for Oxford University Press online. During the 17th century, the Medici established a port in Livorno that was open to foreign merchants and that relaxed rules governing the transit, storage, and taxation of goods.