冈本视频

Social Sciences

  • William Andrews 鈥16 (left) and Carolyn 鈥淐ara鈥 Skelly 鈥16 (right)
    Two 冈本视频 students will teach English in Germany for a year thanks to being awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships. William Andrews 鈥16, a German and international relations major from of Richmond, Va., and Carolyn 鈥淐ara鈥 Skelly 鈥16, a German and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies double major from Wellesley, Mass., will be helping students to [鈥
    April 12, 2016
  • The National Geographic Society鈥檚 Committee for Research and Exploration has awarded Assistant Professor of Geography Mike Loranty a grant for his project 鈥淒isentangling Tree and Shrub Phenology in Siberian Taiga Ecosystems.鈥 The funding will cover Loranty鈥檚 travel to the Northeast Scientific Station in Chersky, Russia, where he will monitor the timing 鈥 or phenology 鈥 [鈥
    April 11, 2016
  • MQ-9 Reaper drone flying over Afghanistan
    On March 21, more than 200 students, faculty, and community members gathered at the Palace Theater to discuss Drone Warfare: The Implications for Upstate New York. Valerie Morkevicius, assistant professor of political science, and Jacob Mundy, assistant professor of peace and conflict studies, organized the event. Presenters represented a breadth of ideologies on the topic. [鈥
    April 5, 2016
  • Professor Tim McCay
    冈本视频鈥檚 Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute continues its mission of supporting innovative research with four new grants for 2016. The special funding is designed to help bring together 冈本视频 faculty with outside researchers from around the world in an effort to open new areas of study, and to find creative ways to tackle existing problems.
    March 23, 2016
  • Professor Chad Sparber sits at a table while giving testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest
    Chad Sparber, associate professor of economics, testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest on Thursday, February 25. During the hearing, Sparber discussed the significance of foreign-born STEM workers on native-born job opportunities and the role that the H-1B Visa program has had on technology development and job creation in the United [鈥
    March 8, 2016
  • Professor Ellen Kraly stands on the commencement stage with Curtin University Chancellor Mr. Colin Beckett and Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry
    The journey of a hundred artworks begins with a single person. Ellen Percy Kraly, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of geography and environmental studies, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Australia鈥檚 Curtin University in recognition of her efforts to repatriate an invaluable collection of Noongar aboriginal art to its home Down Under.
    March 3, 2016
  • Researchers with packs walk across an open field.
    Together they will travel more than 500 miles, through forests, mountains, and desolate tundra. The entire forest, growing in a shallow layer of soil, sits on ice and frozen dirt that is tens of thousands of years old.
    March 1, 2016
  • On Monday, February 15, the Department of History took over the official 冈本视频 Twitter feed. Led by students Warren Dennis 鈥16 and Kristy Saldana 鈥18, the department posted about faculty, students, and alumni 鈥 they even threw in a little history of 冈本视频. 鈥淚t was very nerve-racking at first,鈥 said Saldana. 鈥淏ut once we started hearing [鈥
    February 19, 2016
  • When siblings Caroline 鈥19 and Jake Danehy 鈥16 set out to make the eco-friendly clothing line that would eventually become Fair Harbor, Caroline was still in high school, and the idea was firmly rooted in soil, not the sea. 鈥淲e had an initial idea called Three R Clothing. It stood for reuse, refresh, and revitalize. [鈥
    January 25, 2016
  • Congratulations to Maggie Dunne 鈥13 and Ryan Smith 鈥13, each of whom has made an appearance on one of Forbes magazine鈥檚 30 Under 30 lists. Dunne, who double majored in Native American studies and religion, founded Lakota Children鈥檚 Enrichment, Inc., (LCE) while still in high school. As a 冈本视频 sophomore, she joined the university鈥檚 Thought Into Action [鈥
    January 5, 2016