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Around the College

Collegewide

• Four LAS Faculty Named University Scholars (Winter)
• UI Named Top Value (Fall)

Anthropology

• Researchers Show There's No One Right Way to Rear Children (Winter)
• Images of Buenos Aries (Winter)
• Anthropologist Proposes that Toolmaking and Language Coevolved (Summer)

Area Studies

• South Asian Scholar Program to 'Build Bridges' Among Nations (Summer)

Biology

• New Hope for SIDS Babies (Winter)
• Mice Study Identifies Promising Treatment for Muscular Dystrophy (Summer)
• Researchers Set to Commercialize Intelligent Hearing Aid (Summer)
• Mechanism May Regulate Movement within Cells (Fall)
• BT Corn and Butterflies (Fall)

Chemical Sciences

• Lead Detector Uses DNA (Winter)
• Artificial Nose "Sees" Smell (Winter)
• Osteoporosis Drugs Found to Combat Malaria, Other Diseases (Summer)

Earth and Sky

• X-Ray Observations Reveal Gleam in Cat's Eye Nebula (Summer)
• Higher Ocean Temperatures Linked to Cooling in Midwest (Summer)

English

• Website Covers the Best Modern American Poets (Summer)
• Quirky Writers' Colony Nurtured James Jones (Fall)

Foreign Languages & Literatures

• "You Guys" vs. "You All" (Winter)
• Professor Receives Estonian Medal of Honor (Summer)
• Seminars Aim to Redefine Curriculum (Fall)

Geography

• Antarctic Fossil Dig (Winter)

History

• Business Gains Among Blacks Trail Other Minorities (Winter)
• Loss of "Rootedness" Explains Demise of U.S. Communism (Winter)
• Oprah Makes History (Summer)

Mathematics

• Promoting Security in Cyberspace (Winter)

Psychology

• Researchers Show There's No One Right Way to Rear Children (Winter)
• Emotion and Remembering (Summer)
• Thinking is Tiring (Fall)
• Grades Improve when Parent is Involved (Fall)

Sociology

• Compassion in Disaster (Fall)

Speech Communication

• To Whom Teens Tell Secrets (Summer)
• Print vs. Online News Readership (Fall)