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  • collage of fingerprints, models of molecules and crime scene tape
    Lee and collaborators published in Analytical Chemistry

    Police have long relied on the unique whorls, loops or arches encoded in fingerprints to identify suspects. However, they have no way to tell how long ago those prints were left behind — information that could be crucial to a case. A preliminary new study in ACS’ Analytical Chemistry suggests…

    January 22, 2020

  • Rachel Meyers published in the journal Ancient Society

    Rachel Meyers, assistant professor of classical studies, published “On Her Own: Practices of Female Benefaction in the Western Roman Empire” in the 2019 volume of the journal Ancient Society. In this article Meyers uses a quantitative approach in analyzing a body of over 400 Latin inscriptions from the…

    January 13, 2020

  • Matthew W. Sivils book “Sir Rohan’s Ghost. A Romance” published by Anthem Press

    Matthew W. Sivils, professor of English, recently published “Sir Rohan’s Ghost. A Romance.” The book was published by Anthem Press. Originally published in 1860, the formative Gothic noel by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921), one of the nineteenth-century America’s most significan woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British artistocrat…

    January 7, 2020

  • Museums Inside Out published

    Museums Inside Out Artist Collaborations and New Exhibition Ecologies by Mark W. Rectanus An ambitious study of what it means to be a museum in the twenty-first century In Museums Inside Out, Mark W. Rectanus investigates how museums are blurring the boundaries between their gallery walls and public…

    January 6, 2020

  • Katherine Rafferty’s article published by The Conversation

    Assistant Teaching Professor Katherine Rafferty had an article published by The Conversation, “Parents of medically fragile children could use help, understanding year round.” The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/us) is an independent, nonprofit publisher of commentary and analysis, authored by academics and edited by journalists for the general public. The…

    December 17, 2019

  • David Peterson’s article “What Iowa Voters Second Choice Picks Can Tell Us” published on fivethirtyeight.com

    What Iowa Voters’ Second-Choice Picks Can Tell Us…

    December 17, 2019

  • December 9, 2019

  • Daniel Krier publishes study comparing Shakespearean kings to current leadership

    Daniel Krier, professor of sociology, recently published his study, “Shakespeare’s Plays of Deranged Authority: The King’s Three Bodies,” in the journal Fast Capitalism. In his paper, Krier discusses how Shakespeare’s history play, “King John,” which depicts the problems that arise when legitimate political authority is deranged, has contemporary relevance, especially…

    December 5, 2019