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Spring 2020

Dyson Fights Back

Dyson Fights Back

The coronavirus pandemic came on fast, and the Dyson community has responded.

Remoting In

Remoting In

Dyson students and faculty are finding ways to stay connected and engaged in teaching and learning—from a distance.

Dean's Message

We are living through a unique and complicated time, where even the experts are not able to give us definitive answers about the novel coronavirus virus (COVID-19) and its implications for our lives. It is very unsettling for all of us as we adjust to this new world, especially when the “rules” change every day, sometimes every hour.

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Dean's Message

We are living through a unique and complicated time, where even the experts are not able to give us definitive answers about the novel coronavirus virus (COVID-19) and its implications for our lives. It is very unsettling for all of us as we adjust to this new world, especially when the “rules” change every day, sometimes every hour.

Read More

Dean's Message

We are living through a unique and complicated time, where even the experts are not able to give us definitive answers about the novel coronavirus virus (COVID-19) and its implications for our lives. It is very unsettling for all of us as we adjust to this new world, especially when the “rules” change every day, sometimes every hour.

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Dyson Notes

Dyson Notes

Michael James Boyle ’13, MS in Molecular and Cellular Biology, currently a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, recently authored “Organoid single-cell genomic atlas uncovers human-specific features of brain development” with other researchers. The article appears in the journal Nature.

As reported by Deadline: Jesse James Keitel ’15 (Fluidity) is set as a lead in ABC’s The Big Sky, a drama created and executive produced by David E. Kelley, and based on The Highway, the first book in C.J. Box’s Cassie Dewell novel series.

Ralph M. Crystal ’70, Psychology, was selected by the National Council on Rehabilitation Education for the 2020 Distinguished Career in Rehabilitation Education Award

Mary-Lynn Hearn ’19, Political Science, a community relations coordinator at Success Academy Charter Schools, recently delivered a statement to the United Nations General Assembly First Committee on behalf of the youth.

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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Security Kimberly Collica-Cox published her article, “Prisoner Parenting: Parenting from a Federal Jail,” in the Journal of Correctional Healthcare, and contributed to the column “ Innovations in Teaching” in Sage Publications: A Criminal Justice Newsletter and the Routledge Studies in Crime and Society book series (first edition) of “Mothering and Desistance in Reentry.” 

 Robin DeMerell Provey ’97, Liberal Studies, is a lecturer at Western Connecticut State University and Naugatuck Community College, in Danbury, Connecticut and author of “The Seeds of #MeToo Planted under the Orange Tree in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath,” published in the spring 2020 issue of The Steinbeck Review