An infectious disease expert who directs Tulane University's Department of Community Health Sciences, Farley joins the health department just as the city is contending with a swine flu outbreak.
Political scientist Anita Isaacs, an authority on the history of civil war and reconciliation in Guatemala, just returned from a visit to the country. In this Q&A she discusses the recent assassination of a lawyer who had taped a video blaming the country's president should he be murdered, and the growing strife that has resulted.
Listen: Life with Classical Music, of which Finane is editor-in-chief, is the first American lifestyle magazine geared specifically towards fans of the genre.
Leonardo da Vinci expert Jonathan Pevsner '83 is the resident scholar on a six-week Discovery Channel series that has him working with a team of architects, carpenters and engineers to construct some of da Vinci's inventions.
Students in assistant professor of Classics Robert Germany's Latin 102 class got to do more than just focus on grammar and vocabulary this term. Also part of the course: a semester-ending, script-in-hand performance of Germany's original translation of one of the masterworks of Roman comedy.
Students past and present both contributed to and gave several research presentations along with physics faculty members at the Society's 2009 Meeting in March.