Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval (HU) and
Ciro A. Sandoval (HU) are
co-authors of an essay published by Johns Hopkins University Press in College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, Vol, 43, no. 3 (Summer 2016): 570-591.
(This article originally appeared in Tech Today)
![Roxane Gay](https://blogs.mtu.edu/humanities/files/2015/11/RoxaneGay.jpg)
The New York Times published an article by Humanities alumna Roxane Gay about the police killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Read the article here.
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A review by Laura Kasson Fiss of three books on Victorian music appears in the latest issue of Victorian Studies.
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) is a featured philosopher at the blog Philosopher, and published “Paternalism, Protection, and Athlete Autonomy.”
Nominations are now open for the 2016 Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.
This year, nominations are being accepted from dissertations in the fields of:
- Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering
- Social Sciences (note: history is classed within humanities and is not a field of competition in 2016)
Michigan Tech may nominate one student in each field. PhD students who have completed all of their degree requirements between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2016 are eligible. The fields of competition for 2017 will be humanities/fine arts and biological and life sciences.
The deadline to submit nominations is 4 p.m. Monday, June 20 following the online instructions. Nominations must be delivered to Debra Charlesworth in the Graduate School. Emailed nominations to gradschool@mtu.edu are preferred. Contact Debra Charlesworth if you have any questions about the competition.
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L. Syd M Johnson (HU) was interviewed for an article on brain death at popular web site Big Think. The article is entitled “A Company Is Trying to Resurrect the Brain Dead, a Really Bad Idea.”
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) published “Reversing brain death: An immodest proposal” in Impact Ethics.