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Social Sciences

  • Orator Anthony Tamburro ’14 was one of five London Study Group students to talk to a crowd at Hyde Park’s famous Speakers’ Corner.
    Karl Marx reportedly did it. So did George Orwell, or so the story goes. But it’s definitely 100 percent true that Anthony Tamburro ’14, Caroline Kraeutler ’14, and three of their classmates on ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù꿉۪s London Study Group made their positions heard at the Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, near the Marble Arch tube station.
    April 22, 2013
  • Beyond ancient ruins, temples, mosques, and historic churches of Istanbul, participants in a recent interfaith trip to Turkey explored their own religious beliefs and perceptions. Only traditional Turkish cuisine was on the menu and trips to McDonalds were forbidden. Led by Rabbi Dena Bodian, associate university chaplain and director of Jewish life, and Noor Khan, […]
    April 10, 2013
  • ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø assistant professor of geography Michael Loranty was involved in new research that predicts rising temperatures will lead to a massive “greening,â€� or increase in plant cover, in the Arctic. In the paper published March 31 in Nature Climate Change, scientists reveal new models projecting that wooded areas in the Arctic could increase by as […]
    April 2, 2013
  •   (Editor’s note: This article was written by Alicia Klepeis) Although the Ganges River is considered sacred and purifying to Hindus, pollution and damming have contaminated those beliefs, according to initial findings by Srikar Gullapalli ’13 and Brian Lemanski ’14. Previous scholarship has indicated that Hindus believe the river’s sanctity could not be fouled by […]
    March 28, 2013