Following the departure of students at the end of the academic year, some departments experience a lull, while others desperately need extra hands. The Campus Ops Cross-Utilization Program — or Cross-U — allows staff from departments with a reduced workload to assist those with temporary staffing needs.
Dining Services is shifting to spring and summer hours, with some campus dining locations catching a seasonal break. Before heading out for lunch or coffee, be sure to check which locations are open.
Due to ongoing construction at Boatwright Memorial Library, interlibrary loan pickup/return and the recreational reading collection have temporarily moved to Parsons Music Library. The music library's summer hours are:
Monday–Friday: 9 a.m.–1 p.m.
Saturday–Sunday: Closed
Parsons Music Library will be closed May 20–21 for an outside event in Booker/Modlin.
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—The Princeton Review (2025)Douglas Winiarski, professor of religious studies, was awarded the annual John M. Murrin Essay Prize for “Revisioning the Shawnee Prophet: Revitalization Movements, Religious Studies, and the Ontological Turn” for the best article published in Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal in 2024.
Sara Pappas, associate professor of French and visual culture, published the book Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century.
Joonsuk Park, associate professor of computer science, published the paper "Are LLM-Judges Robust to Expressions of Uncertainty? Investigating the effect of Epistemic Markers on LLM-based Evaluation" in the Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).
Eric S. Yellin, associate professor of history, participated in the American Historical Association’s Congressional Briefing, offering historical perspectives on the federal civil service.
Christopher von Rueden, professor of leadership studies, co-published the article “Fiercely egalitarian”: Thematic cross-cultural analysis reveals regularities in the maintenance of egalitarianism across four independent African hunter-gatherer groups in Cross-Cultural Research.
Christopher von Rueden, professor of leadership studies, co-published the article Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study in Evolution and Human Behavior.
Guzel Garifullina, assistant professor of leadership studies, received the 2025 Frank Cass Prize for Best Article published in the journal Democratization for her article "Ambition without Democracy: When the Cautious Seek Office."
Sam Director, assistant professor of leadership studies, published the article "Does Black Box AI in Medicine Compromise Informed Consent?" in Philosophy and Technology.
Michael Marsh-Soloway, teaching faculty of literatures, languages, and cultures, published The Mathematical Mind of F. M. Dostoevsky: Imaginary Numbers, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and Infinity.
Classical studies professor Nicholas Baker is quoted.
A film by Julietta Singh, professor of English and women, gender, and sexuality studies, is featured.
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