May 4, 2001

Institutional social sciences focus of summer program By Gerry Everding University doctoral students from Albania, Armenia, Germany and the United States will constitute the inaugural class of a new summer research program offered by the University's Center for New Institutional Social Sciences (C-NISS). Designed to foster and encourage interdisciplinary education and research in new institutional social sciences, the center was founded in 1999 by Douglass C. North, Ph.D., co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences. A primary goal is the support of diversified research into the evolution of social, political and economic institutions, formal and informal, that shape societies and economies around the world both in developed and developing countries. Click to see entire article

Technology and Curriculum Initiative offers teaching enhancement Electronic poetry, interpretive videos of Spanish texts, digitizing court records, oral histories of 1970s campus activism and high-tech costume design are among the faculty projects earning funding this spring through the Arts & Sciences Technology and Curriculum Initiative. This is the second year that Edward S. Macias, Ph.D., executive vice chancellor and dean of Arts & Sciences, has made a $100,000 provision for faculty members to enhance their teaching with technology. Project proposals are evaluated by a committee co-chaired by Dennis J. Martin, associate vice chancellor and associate dean in Arts & Sciences, and James W. Davis, Ph.D., director of the Teaching Center and professor of political science in Arts & Sciences.   Click to see entire article