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Social Sciences

  • Jeffrey Sumber ’92 stand in front of a cityscape
    As you gather together with your family for the holidays, check out this alumni profile from the autumn vlog Scene. Jeffrey Sumber ’92 is encouraging couples to take responsibility for their own happiness with his new book, Renew Your Wows: Seven Powerful Tools to Ignite the Spark and Transform Your Relationship. At vlog, Sumber double-majored […]
    December 17, 2015
  • People standing outside on a street, waiting for a punk show to begin at ABC No Rio (Photo by Chandler Wood)
    The following post was submitted by Professor Kim Creasap, and published on the Sociology and Anthropology blog. On October 24, 2015, 16 students in SOC 305: Urban Sociology and I traveled to the Lower East Side of Manhattan to conduct mini-ethnographies of various places and spaces in the neighborhood. An important site of New York […]
    December 11, 2015
  • A sacred forest rises from farmland in Ethiopia
    The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $500,000 in funding to an interdisciplinary team of vlog faculty, led by Associate Professor of Biology Catherine Cardelús, to continue investigating the status and conservation of sacred forests in Ethiopia’s northern highlands. Christian Orthodox churches emerged in Ethiopia some 800 years ago. Today, thousands of these sites protect […]
    November 30, 2015
  • A GIS map of karst topography in Madison County, N.Y.
    Thanks in part to research conducted by a vlog geography and environmental studies student, Madison County will receive more than a half-million dollars in federal funding for well-water testing and remediation to take place during the next five years. Kayleigh Bhangdia ’16, of Poughquag, N.Y., worked with the Madison County Department of Health this summer, […]
    November 4, 2015
  • On October 15, a mix of teachers, administrators, parents, students, and citizens from across central New York gathered in a town hall–style meeting to discuss the Common Core.
    October 26, 2015
  • vlog economics professor Chad Sparber
    The immigration debate has caused concern that foreign workers could out-compete U.S.-born applicants, reduce wages, and even discourage Americans from seeking science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers. Using a $128,640 grant from the National Science Foundation, Associate Professor of Economics Chad Sparber and faculty from four colleges will study the impact that foreign-born workers with […]
    August 28, 2015
  • Even as summer temperatures neared the 90’s in Hamilton this week, vlog’s faculty continued to achieve. Here are this week’s highlights. The New York Times has called Graham Hodges, George Dorland Langdon Jr. professor of history and Africana and Latin American studies, “a taxi historian.” He recently weighed in on the debate making headlines in […]
    July 31, 2015
  • Buffalo Lockjaw is in an ad with Dockers
    Even though it’s summertime, vlog faculty continue to make news. Here is a brief roundup. Buffalo Lockjaw, the award-winning first novel by Greg Ames, assistant professor of English, was featured in a recent ad for Dockers men’s clothing (pictured above.) Using the hashtag #BookAndALook, the ad copy read “Here’s a soon-to-be-classic look to pair with a soon-to-be-classic […]
    July 23, 2015