Named in honor of regional architect Thomas Schroth, whose global perspective framed creativity as a “window onto human experience,†the series has featured acclaimed guests including Tony Award winner Stephen Schwartz, the Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet, minimalist icon Richard Tuttle, and fashion visionaries Ruben and Isabel Toledo.Free and open to the public, this year’s lineup exemplifies the series’ ongoing mission to enrich cultural dialogue and inspire creative futures. The 2025-2026 featured guests are Jane Chu, Paul Tazewell, Bobby Sanabria, Krzysztof Wodiczko&nb...
College of Arts & Sciences
Cold-raising unmasks sleep disruption in a Drosophila Alzheimer’s disease modelAnanya Nair, Allison J. Yearwood, Brandi N. Besednjak, Mikayla M. Cully, Reece Turner, and Joseph L. BedontChronic sleep loss is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), and reduced and fragmented sleep is increasingly appreciated as an early-onset diagnostic and potential therapeutic target for AD. However, robustly modeling AD-like sleep deficits in fruit flies has often been challenging. We report that cold-raising unmasks deficits in sleep duration, fragmentation, and latency in one such model pan-neuronally ...