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Research

Scholarship and research in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences spans the full gamut of intellectual endeavor—Art History to Astronomy, Philosophy to Physics, as well as literature, language, life sciences, political science, religion, mathematics, and computation.

The full sweep of research activity covers departmental and interdisciplinary programs, individual projects, events and scholarly publications. Just one measure of achievement is the record amount of external grant funding achieved by faculty in 2007-8; the total dollar amount of new grants and contracts increased by more than 15% above the previous year to $77.5m.

The integration of graduate education and research is critical to the University’s mission, and is nowhere more evident than across the 32 centers and institutes that are affiliated with the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and across the significant developments that we spotlight here.

  • The Difference a Year Makes

    Learn about the College’s many academic and scholarly achievements of the past year in the newly released Annual Report.

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  • Journey into the
    Maya Underworld

    Bill Saturno’s perilous discovery of an ancient Maya mural in Guatemala

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  • arts&sciences Magazine

    Read the latest issue, which highlights efforts to teach Spanish to an unlikely group of language learners.

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  • Solving the Health Care Reform Puzzle

    The first Discoveries Lecture of the 2009 academic year focused on solutions for the health-care crisis.

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