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Faculty Friday Spotlight: September 2023
2023 Faculty Awards and Named Professorships Announced Agnes Scott College recently announced its 2023 Faculty Award winners. Bonnie Perdue, professor of psychology and director of neuroscience, was named this year’s Vulcan Teaching Excellence Award honoree. The award recognizes the faculty member who demonstrates strong academic skills in the classroom and…
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Faculty Friday Spotlight: July 2023
Four Faculty Members Win National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Professors of Philosophy Harald Thorsrud and Lara Denis, Professor of Physics Carlee Bishop and Professor of Mathematics James Wiseman received a NEH Connections Grant for “Exploring the Ethics of the Digital Transformation.” The one-year project seeks to plan a new…
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Three Agnes Scott Seniors Earn Fulbright Scholarships
Three Agnes Scott College students have been selected as Fulbright Finalists. Sukainah Abid-Kons ’23, MJ Jones ’23 and Karen Seaver ’23 have each been offered a grant and await the finalization of their terms of award as determined by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. What connects the different majors of…
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Faculty Friday Spotlight: February 2023
Two Agnes Scott professors receive an arts grant, Larry Riddle cross-stitches to Boston and the newest faculty publications announced.
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Faculty Friday Spotlight: December 2022
Erin Bradley selected to a research program, Jennifer Larimore shares news student research and more in the December Faculty Friday Spotlight.
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Faculty Friday Spotlight: October 2022
Activism and Healing through Poetry Agnes Scott College’s mission of “thinking deeply, living honorably, and engaging with the social and intellectual challenges of our times” is exemplified by the work done by our faculty daily. The goals of academia are not stagnant antiquity but rather an active and responsive living…
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE RANKED #1 MOST INNOVATIVE FOR THE FIFTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR
First-year experiences, undergraduate teaching, social mobility and study-abroad opportunities are among other top rankings highlighted in the 2022-2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. September 12, 2022 (Decatur, Georgia) – For an unprecedented fifth year in a row, Agnes Scott College has been recognized as the nation’s #1…
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Faculty Friday Spotlight: September 2022
Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging by Professor Nicole Stamant was recently published by Routledge. Dr. Stamant’s work primarily focuses on marginalized populations and historically marginalized forms of literature: life writing studies, ethnic American literature and the works of literature of gender and sexual minorities. “In my scholarship, I write…
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Faculty Friday Spotlight: August 2022
Adding to the Booklist Professor of classics and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Megan O. Drinkwater’s work on Ovid’s “Heroides” will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press at the end of summer 2022. Drinkwater illustrates how Ovid used innovations of literary form to articulate an…
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2022 Faculty Teaching Awards Announced
Professors Erin Bradley, Amy Patterson, Li Qi and Jennifer Hughes all honored for their work. Agnes Scott College is pleased to announce its 2022 Faculty Award winners. These individuals were formally announced during Commencement on May 15, 2022. Erin Bradley, Linda Lentz Hubert Assistant Professor of Public Health, was named…
