What is it like to share a stage with John Mellencamp? Only another rock star could say for sure.<\/p>\n
And yet, Gerry Wubben can still tell you what it\u2019s like to share an audience with the \u201cJack & Diane\u201d singer.<\/p>\n
Wubben, an adjunct professor of art at Furman, and Mellencamp were the two artists selected to have solo art shows to mark the inaugural opening of the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center in Jasper, Indiana, from mid-December 2019 through February 2021. Wubben exhibited 24 monumental charcoal drawings measuring 5 feet-by-8 feet and 8 feet-by-15 feet. The drawings are realistic and based on a range of subjects such as the figure, landscape, architecture and science.<\/p>\n
Wubben was among the five professors to give four-minute speed talks during the annual Faculty Scholarship Reception held at Duke Library on Feb. 12. The event celebrated 195 scholarship submissions and 30\u00a0awarded\u00a0grants totaling $8.7 million.<\/p>\n
The reception also featured Adi D.\u00a0Dubash, the Henry Keith and Ellen Hard Townes Assistant Professor of Biology, who presented his research on how disrupting the connections of a protein called cadherin affects how cells spread, which is analogous to what happens during cancer progression.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen individual cancer cells within a tumor lose connections to each other because of mutations, they start to spread or metastasize to other parts of your body,\u201d Dubash said. \u201cIn our study, we further showed that cadherins talk or signal to a protein called Rap, and if we used a drug to disrupt Rap, then cells lacking cadherin didn\u2019t spread as much anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alyson Farzad-Phillips, assistant professor of communication studies, spoke about evaluating how a map, published on the Women\u2019s March website to publicize a gathering called a \u201chuddle\u201d either encouraged or discouraged intersectional feminist coalitions. \u201cOverall,\u201d she said, her research \u201cis a strong anti-racist feminist critique of the Women\u2019s March huddle map and the potential to engage in mapping as a form of rhetorical criticism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Veronica\u00a0L.\u00a0Flores, assistant\u00a0professor\u00a0of psychology, explained her recently published neuroscience research into \u201chow taste experiences, specifically those that we deem inconsequential, impact taste learning and the neural mechanisms that underlie it.\u201d Her lab analyzed electrophysiological recordings of brain activity in rodents, \u201cwhich revealed that these seemingly benign taste experiences actually impact how the brain processes new tastes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alexander Francis-Ratte<\/span>, assistant professor of Asian studies, spoke about his paper which \u201cattempts to show conclusively that the Japanese language was first spoken on the Asian continent before it was spoken in the Japanese archipelago, having been brought to Japan by the wave of migration (ca. 800-400 BCE) of people known in the literature as the Yayoi.\u201d He said the research offers a better understanding of East Asian prehistory, while also helping \u201cto counter racist narratives in Japanese society that Japanese language and culture are ontologically different and qualitatively superior to other East Asians.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nThe gallery was not found!\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is it like to share a stage with John Mellencamp? Only another rock star could say for sure. And yet, Gerry Wubben can still tell you what it\u2019s like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,45,56,19,51,48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-art","category-asian-studies","category-biology","category-communication-studies","category-psychology","category-top-four-news-1st-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}