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Wightman Earns Distinguished Teaching Award
Bruce Wightman, Ph.D., professor and chair of biology (Lafayette Hill, Pa.) has earned the Ruth and Joel Spira Prize for Distinguished Teaching at Muhlenberg College, established to recognize and inspire excellence in teaching within and beyond the con...
May 29, 2025, 9:00am EDT
VanValen Earns Crossette Family Fellowship for International Research
Jim VanValen, director of theatre and assistant professor of theatre and dance (Allentown, Pa.) has received the Crossette Family Fellowship for International Research at Muhlenberg College. Established by the Crossette family to support faculty trave...
May 22, 2025, 9:00am EDT
Biology Professor Earns Hoffman Research Fellowship
Erika V. Iyengar, Ph.D., professor of biology (Emmaus, Pa.) has been named the Donald B. Hoffman Research Fellow at Muhlenberg College for 2025-2026. Named in honor of Donald B. Hoffman, Class of 1932, the fellowship is given to encourage scholarship, ...
May 19, 2025, 1:00pm EDT
Bagley Named Class of 1932 Research Professor for 2025-26
Erika J. Bagley, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology (Macungie, Pa.) has been named the Class of 1932 Research Professor at Muhlenberg College for 2025-26. Established in 1986, this professorship provides course release time for up to one year for...
May 13, 2025, 11:25am EDT
Muhlenberg College Promotes Filmmaker/Educator
In recognition of scholarly work and excellence in teaching, David Romberg, M.F.A., (Philadelphia, Pa.) has been awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor of media and communication by the college's Board of Trustees this February. Holding a...
Feb 13, 2025, 11:32am EST
Music and Drama
Drawing connections between the musical and dramatic content of 20th century Broadway theater and opera. This research was accomplished by analyzing melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, and other musical aspects, as well as how they compliment the text of...
Dec 8, 2022, 2:44pm EST
REU SINE Program at FAU in Dr. Ning Quan's Lab
Approximately 9.5% of adults suffer from a depressive illness, and about 18% of people have an anxiety disorder. However, one third of these people do not respond to western medicine. Increased inflammation has been found to be the cause of this issue....
Dec 8, 2022, 2:38pm EST
Topic modeling of the letters of Walter Benjamin through natural language processing
To apply multiple natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to the letters of Walter Benjamin. These models are focused on topic modeling. Gathered output data is analyzed and displayed numerically and graphically. Goals to draw correlations from th...
Dec 8, 2022, 2:29pm EST
NSAID Drug Design
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a rapidly-growing neurodegenerative disease; as of 2017, 5.3 million United States citizens are afflicted with AD, which is estimated to increase to 13+ million individuals by 2050, costing the country over $1 trillion annua...
Dec 8, 2022, 2:18pm EST
Oxytocin in Zebrafish Social Buffering
Previous research has established that as social creatures, both humans and zebrafish (Danio rerio) turn to members of their species in the face of stress. This mitigation of stress response by social cues is a phenomenon called "social buffering." In ...
Dec 8, 2022, 2:12pm EST