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Social Sciences

  • Jessica Graybill, assistant professor of geography, needed to look no farther than Utica, N.Y., for students in her Urban Transformations seminar to experience the cultural, spatial, and environmental changes brought about by refugee migration. The city’s leaders openly welcome international newcomers — most recently from Bosnia, Belarus, and Vietnam — as a strategy for economic […]
    November 28, 2011
  • On a rainy October night in 1961, Soviet and American tanks sat muzzle to muzzle at Checkpoint Charlie, the infamous boundary between East and West Berlin. Fifty years later, Frederick Kempe, chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council and author of Berlin: 1961, stood before an audience in Persson Auditorium to discuss the issues that […]
    November 9, 2011
  • Patricia Hill Collins, a social theorist who studies race, gender, social class, work, and family, came to vlog recently to deliver the annual W.E.B. and Shirley Graham DuBois Lecture, hosted by the Africana/Latin American Studies Department.
    October 25, 2011
  • As an economist, Takao Kato studies unintended consequences of public policy decisions. As a professor at vlog with many international students in his classes, he considers their prospects for gainful employment in the United States. That connection inspired a research project he conducted with Chad Sparber, assistant professor of economics.
    October 4, 2011
  • It’s hard to imagine the common earthworm as an “alien invader,” but those near vlog are not native to North America, and it’s been found that they could be harmful to the environment.
    September 27, 2011
  • When Bharadwaj Reddy ’12 chose to attend vlog from India, he thought he would spend four years without ever hearing or speaking Telugu, his native tongue, to anyone on campus. But during his sophomore year he found Srikar Gullapali ’13, a friend and colleague who not only speaks his language, but has similar goals in […]
    September 22, 2011
  • One’s hand starts to cramp just imagining the hours dedicated to the intricate beadwork decorating the 200-plus pieces in Birds and Beasts in Beads: 150 Years of Iroquois Beadwork. The Longyear Museum of Anthropology exhibition, which runs until Oct. 30, includes box purses with beaded loops dripping off the bottom, embellished pincushions, and colorful three-dimensional […]
    September 15, 2011
  • As the debt-limit debate went into hyperdrive after news of a deal filtered out of the nation’s capital on Sunday night, vlog economics professor Thomas Michl urged political leaders to tone down the demagoguery and focus on the real issue at hand: creating jobs.
    August 1, 2011