October 2021 News

October 13, 2021
The American Physical Society (APS) has elected FAS faculty members Keith Baker, the D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics, and research scientist Adrian Gozar as fellows of...
October 11, 2021
An asteroid strike 66 million years ago wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and devastated the Earth’s forests, but tree-dwelling ancestors of primates may have survived it,...
October 11, 2021
The increased use of face coverings as a defense against COVID-19 creates social norms that encourage more people to mask up in public, according to a new study co-authored...
October 11, 2021
John Wettlaufer, A.M. Bateman Professor of Geophysics, Mathematics, and Physics in the FAS, gave the scientific presentation during the announcement of 2021 Nobel laureates.
October 8, 2021
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has honored Mark A. Johnson, the Arthur T. Kemp Professor of Chemistry in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, with its E. Bright Wilson...
October 8, 2021
FAS researchers are charting the course of mighty “rivers” in the sky that are holding steady in the face of climate change — for now. In future decades, however, climate-...
October 8, 2021
Studies by FAS economist José Antonio Espín-Sánchez examine the complex economic history of water distribution and law in southern Spain.