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Randall Kyes established the International Field Study Program-Indonesia at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ. The month-long study abroad program provided field-based educational and research opportunities for students from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, Indonesia and other participating countries.

New Directions in Public Gardens, a speaker series created by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Botanic Gardens, will conclude in September with the final speaker and a town hall. Past guests addressed topics like engaging with local Indigenous populations and opportunities for public land to support urban food systems and engage with BIPOC communities.

This year, the School of Music’s Improvised Music Project focused on audio recording, inviting acclaimed recording engineer David Boucher for a weeklong workshop. The new format allowed students and faculty to gain experience with Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s new mobile recording system while teaching fundamental recording and audio skills. 

Robert Pekkanen, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ professor in the Jackson School of International Studies, teaches Crisis Negotiation. The centerpiece of the course is the International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise (ISCNE), a negotiation simulation where students act as diplomatic teams facing a real-world crisis scenario.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ history professor Margaret O’Mara says Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has renewed debate about freedom of online speech, online content moderation and the power of billionaires to shape public conversation.

Two Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty members are among 180 experts in the arts, humanities, law and the sciences chosen as 2022 Guggenheim Fellows, according to an April 7 announcement from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Jordanna Bailkin, a professor in the Department of History, and Emily Levesque, an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy, are among the new class of fellows, which were selected from a pool of nearly 2,500 applicants.