Articles

Psychologist Amanda Brandone explores how joint attention shapes early cognitive and social development.

Through the lenses of race, gender, and religion, Noh reveals the complex impacts of colonialism and evangelical missions linking Korea, the U.S., and Haiti.

New book reveals how leaders in Russia and Kazakhstan strategically tolerated corruption while building regulatory states to maintain control.

How a vision for Jewish studies transformed a community and inspired generations.

As Ben Wright approaches retirement, the renowned scholar celebrates a career unraveling the mysteries of the Second Temple period and advancing fresh perspectives in early Judaism studies.

Ivan Biaggio pursues groundbreaking research on quantum-entangled particles in organic crystals.

The latest book by Nicholas Sawicki delves into the iconic author’s interest in the visual arts

Physics Ph.D. student Jace Curran explores how spin-entangled excitons in rubrene can be used as new investigative tools in organic semiconductors.

How forced philanthropy is failing to bridge corporate and NGO goals

If you wanted to create impactful art challenging the status quo in a repressive country, you’d think you would have to go “underground.” Indeed, that’s exactly where a new, alternative art form called Moscow Conceptualism arose in the late Soviet era – operating in secrecy, away from viewers, critics, and especially those in power. But Russian professor Mary Nicholas says that a subset of Moscow artists of the time – who she considers among the most influential -- challenged the idea they should be hidden -- and with great impact. For Nicholas, Exhibit A is a street procession in 1978, where a small group of conceptual artists called The Nest carried a red banner down a Moscow street.

A 10-member team with participants from Lehigh, Colorado State University, the University of California Irvine and Mongolia dug into the question of how the Altai Mountains influence the climate in the arid Mongolian desert. The Altai, an ancient mountain range, is at the convergence point of four countries: China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia.

Mark Bickhard, Henry R. Luce Professor of Cognitive Robotics and the Philosophy of Knowledge, challenges traditional metaphysical frameworks in his latest book, The Whole Person: Toward a Naturalism of Minds and Persons. Bickhard critiques the historical divide between the material world and mental phenomena, rooted in ancient Greek philosophy, and argues for a shift from substance-based metaphysics to process metaphysics. His model, called interactivism, emphasizes the evolutionary and developmental emergence of normative phenomena—such as representation, cognition, and language—through dynamic interactions, rather than static structures or substances.