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Although adult Brood X cicadas are all but gone, the hollow exoskeletons they shed after emerging from the ground in recent months cling to trees, fences and buildings as a reminder of their brief, riotous emergence in our area. Science will understand their lifecycle more clearly when the next generation pops out of the ground in 2038, a UMD entomologist said.(Photo by John T. Consoli)

Ways of the World explores cosmopolitanism as it emerged during the Restoration and the role theater played in both memorializing and satirizing its implications and consequences. This spring, Laura J. Rosenthal released her newest work with Cornell Press: Ways of the World: Theater and Cosmopolitanism in the Restoration and Beyond.

Professor Frauke Kreuter of UMD's Joint Program in Survey Methodology and of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich is a co-author on a new perspective piece inNature that describes how human interactions and social awareness may be able to fill in gaps where surveys and other scientific analyses of human behavior fall short.