Medieval culture played a significant role in transnational feminism thanks to a group of women writers, Professor of English and Comparative Literature Marilynn Desmond said during the Harpur College Dean's Distinguished Lecture in November. “To see the possibilities that a transnationalist imagination might map for the time and space of gender, we need only read the texts authored by medieval women who had no way to think in terms of nation,” Desmond said.
Welcome to Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, the intellectual heart of Binghamton University. With over 7,500 undergraduate students and almost 1,500 graduate students, Harpur is also the largest of Binghamton University’s six schools.
Harpur attracts bright, energetic, creative and curious students from across the country and around the world to learn from—and with—internationally acclaimed faculty who are passionate about teaching and discovery. As a Harpur student, you will be inspired and challenged by faculty who are leaders in their fields and by talented classmates with wide-ranging interests, inquiring minds and a passion for learning. | Read More
Three Harpur faculty appointed to distinguished ranks
The State University of New York Board of Trustees this month appointed three Binghamton University faculty to distinguished professorships. Susan Strehle, professor of English, was appointed distinguished service professor; Stephen Lisman, professor of psychology, and Anthony Preus, professor of philosophy, were each appointed distinguished teaching professors. They join nearly 60 other Binghamton faculty who have received the distinction.
The newly created Harpur Fellows Program will award two fellowships of up to $4,000 each to undergraduate students in Harpur College. These competitive fellowships will support self-designed, independent projects that will allow the recipients to pursue a passionate interest that serves others and contributes to the well being of the community.
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Binghamton University and M. Stanley Whittingham are at the forefront of the movement seeking new ways to design the next generation of lithium-ion batteries. The University is now serving as an associate director of the Northeastern Chemical Energy Storage Center (NECESC), an energy frontier research center that received designation and $17 million in funding over five years from the Department of Energy.
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When Eriks Rozners joined the faculty at Binghamton in 2008, the University renovated and fully equipped a new laboratory with state-of-the-art equipment to support his research into ribonucleic acids (RNA). Recently, the associate professor of chemistry coordinated a successful collaborative application for a $550,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation Program that will fund the purchase of more powerful nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) equipment.
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