Tag: Stewart Weaver
2021 honorary degrees, medals, and teaching awards announced
Distinguished leaders, educators, and humanitarians will be honored during this spring’s commencement ceremonies.
100 years on: The partition of Ireland explained
Stewart Weaver, a professor of history whose teaching interests include Great Britain, Ireland, India, exploration, and the environment, offers an explainer on the partition of Ireland, which took place a century ago.
Rochester Himalayan project receives environmental history award
Work to preserve testimonies of a people and their culture is recognized as an “outstanding model of applied environmental history scholarship.”
Stewart Weaver named Carnegie Fellow to support climate history study in Himalayas
Professor of history Stewart Weaver has been named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow to continue work to preserve the rich culture and history of the Ladakh mountain region and its people.
What drives human exploration of the unknown?
In his new book, professor of history Stewart Weaver chronicles journeys of discovery from the pre-historic trek of humans across the land bridge over the Bering Strait some 12,000 years ago to the mid-20th century deep sea voyages of Jacques-Yves Cousteau.