Lisa M. Corrigan, professor of communication, will give the first of four lectures focusing on racism, social justice, and policing hosted by the Pryor Center. It will be at 6 p.m. Thursday.

Fordham University's Leonard Cassuto, author of the forthcoming The New Ph.D., recently visited virtually with graduate students and faculty from the Department of English about the need for career diversity to be emphasized in humanities graduate programs

Daniela D'Eugenio, assistant professor of Italian, will initiate the five-part series with "The Hopeless Tricked and the Clever Trickster from Boccaccio to Basile," via Zoom at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18.

Colleagues, friends and former students of Thomas "Tom" C. Kennedy, professor emeritus of history, have donated more than $25,000 to endow an annual lecture program in Kennedy's honor.

September is Suicide Prevention Month and Joe Hatfield, assistant professor of communication, has received a grant to support ongoing research on the rhetorical history of transgender suicide in United States' popular culture.

Fulbright College teaching and research faculty awards go to Todd Cleveland, Samantha Robinson, Bret Schulte, Lindsey Aloia, Susanne Striegler, Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam, and Kathleen Doody.

Kelly Hammond, assistant professor of history and Asian studies, will give a lecture tonight titled "Cold War Mosque: Asian geopolitics, the politicization of religious spaces, and the Taipei Mosque."

The project will reduce the average cost of books used in HIST 2003 and HIST 2013 by 25% for students who take the core curriculum American history courses this year.

Carry, a memoir-in-essays about gun violence, land and indigenous women's lives by Toni Jensen, a professor of fiction in the Program in Creative Writing and Translation, was released today by Ballantine Books.

A Chance to Live: A Family's Journey to Freedom By Pieter Kohnstam