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Lauret Savoy was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2017)


Schwartzer JJ, Garcia-Arocena D, Jamal A, Izadi A, Willemsen R, Berman RF. Allopregnanolone Improves Locomotor Activity and Arousal in the Aged CGG Knock-in Mouse Model of Fragile X-Associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome. Front Neurosci. 2021 Dec 3;15:752973.


Church J.S., Tamayo J.M., Ashwood P., Schwartzer J.J. (2021) Repeated allergic asthma in early versus late pregnancy differentially impacts offspring brain and behavior development. Brain Behav Immun., 93, 66-79.


Schwartzer J.J., Onore C.E., Rose D.R., Ashwood P. (2017) C57BL/6L bone marrow transplant increases sociability in BTBR T+ Itpr3tf/J mice. Brain Behavior & Immunity. 59:55-61


Ringbauer, H., Shaus, A., et al. (2025) Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08913-3.


Shaus, A., Reich, D. (2025) The Iron II burial cave: Ancient DNA sampling and analysis of uniparental markers. In: I. Finkelstein & T. R枚mer (Eds.), Kiriath-jearim: The Shmunis Family Excavations (pp. 311-318). Eisenbrauns. https://doi.org/10.5325/jj.28174276.30


Shaus, A., Shamoon-Pour, M., Moses, V. C., Reich, D., & McCormick, M. (2025, Nov 19-22), DNA Evidence from the Fall of Nineveh (Halzi Gate) [Conference presentation]. ASOR American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting 2025, Boston, MA, United States.


Margaret Robinson PI with Co-PIs Giuliana Davidoff, Dylan Shepardson and Jessica Sidman (Mathematics) received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for 鈥淐ollaborative Proposal: Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference 2020-2022鈥 鈥 with Keene and Siena Colleges. The project is for three years.

National Science Foundation


Susam-Saraeva, 艦., & Shread, C. (2025). Making the leap: embracing the more-than-human in feminist and queer translation. Feminist Translation Studies, 2(1), 1鈥12. https://doi.org/10.1080/29940443.2025.2566288


Shread, C. (2024) 鈥淭he Plasticity of Thought in Translation鈥 Traduction, terminologie, r茅daction 37:1, 19-41.