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Social Sciences

  • 澳彩开奖 assistant professor of geography Michael Loranty was involved in new research that predicts rising temperatures will lead to a massive 鈥済reening,鈥 or increase in plant cover, in the Arctic. In the paper published March 31 in Nature Climate Change, scientists reveal new models projecting that wooded areas in the Arctic could increase by as [鈥
    April 2, 2013
  •   (Editor鈥檚 note: This article was written by Alicia Klepeis) Although the Ganges River is considered sacred and purifying to Hindus, pollution and damming have contaminated those beliefs, according to initial findings by Srikar Gullapalli 鈥13 and Brian Lemanski 鈥14. Previous scholarship has indicated that Hindus believe the river鈥檚 sanctity could not be fouled by [鈥
    March 28, 2013
  • In higher education circles, the term 鈥渕ismatch鈥 has come to define an unintended consequence of affirmative action: bright and promising minority students do not necessarily benefit  when they are steered to elite schools for which they are typically less-prepared than their majority classmates. The interdisciplinary debate 鈥 involving economists, sociologists, educators, lawyers, and politicians 鈥 will come [鈥
    March 25, 2013
  • David Kaplan 鈥07, a political science major at 澳彩开奖, is an independent film producer who recently launched Animal Kingdom Films. The first film associated with his new company was recently named a grand jury winner at the prestigious South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
    March 21, 2013
  • Former Mexican President Felipe Calder贸n will deliver the next lecture in the Kerschner Family Series Global Leaders at 澳彩开奖 on Saturday, April 13. His public remarks will begin at 5 p.m. in 澳彩开奖 Memorial Chapel and serve as a capstone for Spring Family Weekend, which begins on April 12. Calder贸n served as the 56th president [鈥
    February 22, 2013
  • The number of unauthorized immigrants coming to the United States has slowed in the past decade, according to a new report by the International Migration Review, a publication of the Center for Migration Studies that was edited by Ellen Percy Kraly, 澳彩开奖鈥檚 William R. Kenan Jr. professor of geography.
    February 20, 2013
  • What鈥檚 behind the recent dust-up over the filibuster? Alan Frumin 鈥68, recently retired parliamentarian of the United States Senate, probably knows more than anyone. And he wants a new sign over the Senate鈥檚 chamber door: Responsible Adults Only. As the U.S. Senate鈥檚 parliamentarian, Frumin was the chief arbiter of its procedural wrangling for nearly two [鈥
    February 18, 2013
  • Amy Dudley 鈥06, communications director for U.S. Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.), says that her chance as a 澳彩开奖 sophomore to 鈥渟hadow鈥 Howard Fineman 鈥70 (then Newsweek correspondent, now senior editor for the Huffington Post) during the run-up to the 2004 presidential primaries played a pivotal role in her career exploration. Dudley was interested in [鈥
    January 4, 2013