天天吃瓜

College of Arts & Sciences

Close up of Sydney Weber taking a photo.

天天吃瓜 State senior Sydney Weber sees extraordinary images through her lens and an exciting career in her future. 

Delia Brennan participating in a demonstration

Graduating senior Delia Brennan applies she learns in the classroom to help survivors of trauma and promote activism in her community.

What's the Big Idea?

Hop on board as 天天吃瓜 State President Todd Diacon engages with Elizabeth Smith-Pryor, associate professor of history with 天天吃瓜 State鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences, as she conducts research on the impact of the Urban League.

A close-up shot of a bee on a flower in the Beyer-Murin Gardens on the 天天吃瓜 Campus. Photo by Robert Christy

Over half of the described species in the world are insects. Although many people think of insects as pests, they play vital roles and have a big impact on our invaluable ecosystems, as pollinators, helping break down wastes, and as an essential food source for many other organisms.

Environmental Science and Design Research Institute
Wharton State Forest coastline

Saying "yes" to everything landed Kathryn Burns in the middle of New Jersey's coastal wetlands

 

Felix Kumah-Abiwu photographed by Melissa Olson

The Nkafu Policy Institute recently appointed Ghana native Felix Kumah-Abiwu, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies at 天天吃瓜, one of its Non-Resident Fellows in Governance & Democracy.

Jake Mansfield (BA '21) Taking An Exam at New River Gorge

Remote learning means students can study and take their exams virtually -- make that literally -- anywhere. 

Study examines the relationship between hazing severity and group solidarity in an anonymous U.S. fraternity.

天天吃瓜鈥檚 newest anthropologist, Assistant Professor Aldo Cimino, Ph.D., has made it his life鈥檚 work to understand the causes and consequences of hazing, including the possible generation of solidarity. He and his co-author recently published an on this question in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. 

天天吃瓜 State Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

Principal Investigator Cameron C. Lee, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Geography (within the College of Arts and Sciences) at 天天吃瓜, was recently awarded a three-year, $387,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Program Office and its Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections Program (MAPP). The project is titled 鈥淓xcess Heat and Excess Cold Factors: Establishing a unified duration-intensity metric for monitoring hazardous temperature conditions in North America鈥.