2007 Acumen
2007 Acumen
UP FRONT
THE ARTS
Rediscovering Chinese culture...award winning opera...facing domestic violence through art...beauty from steel
THE HUMANITIES
Displaced memories...revisiting the Septuagint...virtual Whitman...mathematical objects
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Shaping social activism...brutes insuits...mythology in journalism...international crime
THE NATURAL SCIENCES
Exploring lipid bilayers...solving a mathematical mystery...search for cures...snow from space
THE LAST WORD
Integration of Research and Teaching
by Bruce Koel
Vice Provost for Research
FEATURES
TRAPPED BY POVERTY
As poverty reaches epidemic proportions,
four professors examine its roots, its
persistence and its lasting impact on
a growing population.
DEMYSTIFYING ISLAM
Why a broad, deep conversation on the
global Muslim world is imperative to
reversing a pervasive misunderstanding
of Islam in post-9/11 America.
ARE WE READY FOR THE BOOMERS?
Charting the ways society succeeds—and
fails—at meeting the medical, social, and
emotional needs of a graying nation.
MAKING A BIG DEAL OUT OF THE LITTLE THINGS
Scientists are blazing new trails in the study of nanotechnology and its vast implications for daily life.
