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91��Ƭ�� University Athletics is no stranger to a deep run in the NCAA Tournament.   The 91��Ƭ�� women’s basketball team recently won the Mid-American Conference Tournament championship for the first time since 2002. That same year, the men’s hoops team reached the Elite Eight in March Madness. According to a bracket by Inside Higher Ed, the student-athletes on the 2023-24 women’s team are championship caliber. The publication’s Academic Performance Tournament, which pits NCAA Tournament basketball teams against each other based on academic success, shows why 91��Ƭ�� is ...

Priyanka Kumari, Bijaya Basnet, Maxim Lavrentovich, and Oleg Lavrentovich have published an article in the journal Science on chiral ground states of ferroelectric liquid crystals.  An object is considered chiral if it can be distinguished from its mirror image. Chirality is a characteristic of living organisms and is usually caused by chiral chemical structure of constituent molecules. The work by Priyanka Kumari, Bijaya Basnet and others, published in Science on March 22, describes structural chirality in a recently discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal formed by polar molecul...

What does it mean to be Jewish in the modern world? This is the philosophical question that Senior Lecturer Chaya Kessler, the esteemed retiring director of 91��Ƭ�� University’s Jewish Studies Program (JSP), has woven into almost all aspects of her work of fostering dialogue and understanding in an increasingly polarized world.On the evening of May 16, 91��Ƭ�� University will celebrate and honor the career of Kessler, with a special event held at the 91��Ƭ�� University Hotel and Convention Center. With a theme of “Getting to Now – Now More Than Ever,” friends, colleagues and community...