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Scholarly Research

Our Fisher community is a student-centered educational environment where we embrace critical inquiry as a means to facilitate learning, problem-solving, and skill-building. Through cutting-edge research, we inspire thought leaders to drive their fields forward.

We are proud to showcase recent scholarly research from faculty, staff, or students of the School of Arts and Sciences. Additional scholarly research may be found at Fisher Digital Publications

Featured Scholarly Work


Interwoven abstract lines.

Late Peach Season

Thu, Jan 4

Considered a scholarship of discovery in poetry, Late Peach Season, by Dr. Anastasia Nikolis, appears in the award-winning literary journal Stone Canoe.


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Peace in Post-Dictatorship Honduras

Tue, Jan 10

Dr. Matt Bereza explores the complex tapestry of peace and the challenges that have emerged in Honduras following the era of dictatorship in Hearts of Courage, Faces of Peace: Rebuilding and Resistance in Post-Dictatorship Honduras.


An ultrathin porous membrane with red liquid to show the detection of pathogens in a lab.

Detecting Pathogens

Wed, Jan 10

An NSF-funded Partnership in Innovation project led by Dr. Fernando Ontiveros in collaboration with the University of Rochester will explore rapid and specific detection of pathogens using functionalized microslit silicon membranes.