McMahon Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
Darrin M. McMahon is a cultural and intellectual historian and a leading proponent of a new and revitalized history in ideas.
[more]Darrin M. McMahon is a cultural and intellectual historian and a leading proponent of a new and revitalized history in ideas.
[more]The Council for European Studies (CES) Book Award Committee has awarded Udi Greenberg The Weimar Century the 2016 European Studies Book Award.
[more]Lately, in the heated call for greater STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education at every level, the traditional liberal arts have been needlessly, indeed recklessly, portrayed as the villain. And STEM fields have been (falsely) portrayed as the very opposite of the liberal arts.
[more]President Emeritus James Wright is an on-camera contributor and narrator for the new Ric Burns documentary.
[more]"By releasing students from the pressure of the practical major and allowing them to study what they are sincerely interested in, we allow them to become smarter, more creative, and more able" says Professor Cecilia Gaposchkin in the May 22, 2015 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, "Opinion & Ideas."
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