Archive for March, 2017

Hannah Plumer ’10 just completed her Ph.D. dissertation defense at the University of Sheffield in February. Her research focused on ancient Maya health and disease of three separate Maya sites located in the Three Rivers Region of northern Belize. After Plumer graduated with her B.A. in Anthropology with a minor […]

Lauren (Szejk) McAndrews ’86 is Vice President Environmental Affairs and Sustainability and Assistant General Counsel at Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, a large specialty materials manufacturer. In this role she is responsible for environmental compliance of all their operations around the globe and for implementing the company’s inaugural sustainability program, which addresses […]

  Interested in the criminal justice system? An online Summer course asks students to decide Supreme Court cases and explore the criminal justice system. SOC 2600: Criminal Justice Class Number 3426 May 8 through June 24, 2017 Instructor: Rebecca Collins Students in the course will: Learn the history of criminal […]

by Kristin M. Distel On February 21, Claudia González-Vallejo, Associate Professor of Psychology, gave a talk entitled “Understanding Nutrition Judgments of Packaged Foods” at the University of Chicago. González-Vallejo was invited to speak as part of the Booth School of Business’s Winter 2017 Marketing Workshop. The presentation grew out of […]

The Psychology Colloquium series presents Dr. Sarah Gaither on “Diverse Perspectives: Contexts and Social Identities” on Friday, March 17, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 102. Gaither is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University. Prior to starting at Duke, she was a Provost’s […]

Soc 3270 Sociology of Education is offered online this summer Class number 3434 runs June 26 – Aug. 12. No textbook is required. The course is taught by Dr. Elizabeth Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology. Students in sociology of education examine school as a social institution, thinking critically about what […]

After graduating from the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University with a B.A. in Anthropology, with a minor in Philosophy and a certificate in War and Peace, Ron Hedrick ’12 ’15M decided to take a year off to travel/backpack before returning to Athens to earn an M.A. in […]