Arts and Sciences, the univer-
sity generously committed
ideas for that fiscal year that promised
to enhance curricular and co-curricular
offerings of individual departments.
demically-based curricular and co-cur-
ricular offerings in the programs of art
history, biology, computer science, Eng-
lish, history, international studies, polit-
ical science, psychology, sociology and
theater.
with their dean ways to enhance stu-
dent learning for their programs, to un-
derscore the commitment of the Arts
and Sciences to faculty-mentored stu-
dent research, to facilitate career paths
for graduates, to examine present cur-
ricular delivery with the goal of enhanc-
ing enrollment and student opportunity,
and to invigorate the academically-
based intellectual climate on campus.
events and activities enabled by these
funds follows.
visualization of human
anatomy, physiology
understand that the human body
in its complexity can scarcely be
understood without visualization
techniques that enable its study.
The Department of Biology has
now enhanced its capacity to pur-
sue such discovery with students
by acquiring both best-of-class in-
struments required for physiologi-
cal study -- and the seeds of ones
that will bring such study into the
digital age.
learning in human anatomy and
physiology through the purchase
of microscopes, an articulated and
disarticulated skeleton, brain mod-
els, ophthalmoscopes, charts and
other instruments designed for the
visualization of anatomical struc-
tures.
ward the development of a digi-
tized Human Physiology Lab.
Thanks to purchases of an IWorx
system, this pilot will allow the de-
partment to begin experiments
with students and to move toward
including real time data acquisi-
tion from human performance
these upgrades, the department has
begun a collaboration with the
Sport Studies major intended to
further identify and develop com-
mon resources for a cutting-edge
21st Century Human Physiology
lab.
during new Writers Series
partment of English have long es-
tablished interests in creative
writing. In 2011-12, they were
joined by others in a series that
showcased creative writing talents
in public and classroom settings.
ers participated in the spring Writ-
ers Series sponsored by the
department and the School of Arts
and Sciences:
collections include "Birds of Tifft"
(BlazeVOX, 2011) and "Political
Cactus Poems" (Palm Press, 2005).
He founded and edits the journal
ecopoetics (www.ecopoetics.org),
which features creative-critical inter-
sections between writing and ecol-
ogy.