Professor Susannah Heschel has been elected to the American Society for the Study of Religions (ASSR). This is an interdisciplinary group of about 100 members who are chosen on the basis of their scholarly accomplishments, their comparative interests, and their collegiality with peers.
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Professor Ronald M. Green was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered about the ethical implications of reports that primitive human sperm can be made out of skin cells, an advance that could someday help infertile men have children.
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"I remember Phelps for having confronted me with an ethical dilemma that haunts me to this day," says Professor Randall Balmer about the notorious pastor Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.
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Professor Robert Baum featured in Dartmouth Now article highlighting some of the new scholars who have joined Dartmouth's faculty this year.
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Professor Susannah Heschel will be the commencement speaker at Boston University's School of Theology this May.
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