Stories about "Rebecca Herzig"
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in the News: March 27, 2020

Friday, March 27, 2020 10:47 am

As COVID-19 affects study and work, we revisit ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ history, celebrate fellowships and promotions, and follow a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ alum reality star.

During a visit to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College, students from the Tripp Middle School in Turner stop for a tour of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Museum of Art, where they view two exhibitions on display.Upstairs: "Vanessa German:Miracles and Glory Abound" (October 25, 2019 ñ March 28, 2020)Downstairs: "Ralph Eugene Meatyard:Stages for Being (October 25, 2019 ñ March 28, 2020)Louise Ouillette, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Museum of Art attendant, and Tony Leavitt, a science teacher at the Tripp Middle School, takes a closer look at Vanessa German's art work in the Upper Gallery of the Museum.
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in the News: Dec. 20, 2019

Friday, December 20, 2019 9:20 am

An alum in Congress, an old-timey movie star, and two picture-book experts feature in this last ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in the News of the decade.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in the News: Nov. 22, 2019

Friday, November 22, 2019 9:46 am

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ research gets a national spotlight, two bestselling alumnae authors release new books, and an alum investigates basketball flops.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in the News: Dec. 14, 2018

Thursday, December 13, 2018 3:10 pm

An alumna discovers her great-grandfather's art, an economics professor recreates Maine election results, and Ed Muskie's people recall his 1968 campaign.

The unique proposition of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’ new Digital and Computational Studies Program

Friday, February 26, 2016 10:00 am

The new DCS Program's goal is squarely in the liberal arts wheelhouse: To give ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ graduates "the capacity to claim the world," in the words of one professor.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in the News: Dec. 11, 2015

Thursday, December 10, 2015 4:40 pm

Professor Rebecca Herzig's book Plucked named an Economist best of 2015; The Simpsons teases ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ (and vice versa); and Bloomberg Business looks to Ben Ayers '99 for a better way to help Nepal.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in the News: Feb. 13, 2015

Wednesday, February 11, 2015 11:10 am

John Tooker ’92 When bugs don’t eat slugs, there’s a problem afoot…

Rebecca Herzig is the author of "Plucked: A History of Hair Removal in America" and the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.
‘Plucked’: Race, gender, science, medicine converge in history of hair removal

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 3:31 pm

"Plucked: A History of Hair Removal," a new social history by ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College professor Rebecca Herzig, weaves together for the first time Americans' shifting beliefs about facial and body hair with the technology and business of body modification.

Herzig to speak on science, suffering and feminism

Thursday, November 20, 2014 8:31 am

Rebecca Herzig marks her appointment to an endowed professorship at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College with a lecture on Dec. 2.

Community of voices resonate in new ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ mission statement

Friday, August 27, 2010 2:00 pm

Hundreds of people took part in crafting the new mission statement that…

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