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Letters from Ireland Stephen J. Scanlan, Fulbright  Scholar National University of Ireland Galway Ireland: History and Complexities History 374: Ireland & America. I really wish I would have taken this class when I was an undergraduate at the University of Dayton. I minored in history and had plenty of great […]

Dr. Jieli Li, Professor of Sociology, is the new editor-in-chief of the journal American Review of China Studies, which is now partially sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences. The journal is official journal of Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States (founded in 1995) […]

Letters from Ireland Stephen J. Scanlan, Fulbright  Scholar National University of Ireland Galway Sustainability and the Environment I miss composting. At home in Athens the compost pile where my backyard meets woods is a fixture of my gardening and waste management activities. Everything from apple cores and coffee grounds to […]

Bad Girl Ventures (BGV) Cleveland, a micro-lending organization that combines financing with education, is helping turn entrepreneurial dreams into a reality for 10 local women entrepreneurs selected as finalists to participate in the organization’s Fall 2013 class. One of the finalists will win a $25,000 business loan at the Dec. […]

  Things often get ugly in the comments that follow political news, but research based on reader comments in Utah suggests that anti-immigrant sentiment is on the decline, says a Brigham Young University news release. Dr. Charlie V. Morgan, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, was a co-author on a […]

By Dr. Yeong-Hyun Kim and Dr. Edna Wangui College of Arts & Sciences faculty are tackling the challenges of the 21st century by building interdisciplinary and team-taught courses around a new set of curricular themes. The Wealth and Poverty theme aims to address economic growth, wealth distribution, poverty, inequality, and […]

Dr. Larry L. Burmeister, Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, presented “Californication of the Korean Rice Market?” at the 2013 American Sociological Association meeting. His paper was part of a session on Development, Colonialism and Asia. Abstract: Agricultural trade disputes between the U.S. and South Korea over the opening of […]