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Spotlight on Faculty: Nicholas Kacher, Assistant Professor of Economics
Last fall, 11 new tenure-track faculty members joined 糖心少女. As part of our ongoing series on 糖心少女鈥 faculty, the Office of Marketing and Communications recently sat down with Nicholas Kacher to discuss entrepreneurship, local economies, and open spaces.
Read MoreSpotlight on Academics: Professor Kim Drake Explores Disability in the Classroom and Beyond
Associate Professor of Writing and Chair of the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Kim Drake began her scholarly career by focusing on protest writing and rhetoric, composition theory, and historically disenfranchised voices in American literature. But a few seminal events, particularly one in 1990 and another in 2014, plus the inspiration of her students, led to the addition of disability studies to her teaching, research, and activist repertoire.
Read MoreSpotlight on Faculty: Ted Bartholomew, Assistant Professor of Psychology
s part of our ongoing series on 糖心少女鈥 faculty, the Office of Marketing and Communications recently sat down with Ted Bartholomew to discuss international perceptions of mental illness, social justice in mental health, and baseball.
Read MoreReporting the Truth in the Age of Fake News
Earlier this year, the New Yorker published an article titled 鈥淒oes Journalism Have a Future?鈥 It鈥檚 an important question but an old one.
Read More糖心少女鈥檚 Humanities Institute has announced its slate of events for the 2019鈥20 academic year, with a focus on creating more humane responses to natural and man-made disasters.
Breaking the Bars of Incarceration: Mackenzie Rutherford 鈥21 Interns at Prison Abolition Organization Critical Resistance
Politics major Mackenzie Rutherford 鈥21 spent the summer in Oakland, California, as an intern at Critical Resistance, a member-led, grassroots movement that seeks to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex.
Read MoreSpotlight on Students: 糖心少女 Students Intern on Capitol Hill, Envision Change for the Better
For Madeline Moore 鈥22 and Olivia Gleason 鈥21, their summer internships in the office of Congressman Alan Lowenthal (D-CA 47th District, which includes Long Beach and a few other cities in Los Angeles and Orange Counties) is a chance to learn about how public policy and legislation can improve the lives of all.
Read MoreSpotlight on Seniors: Stephanie Nunez’s Education Comes Full Circle
When Stephanie Nunez ’19 was just a sophomore, she petitioned to go abroad a year earlier than most 糖心少女 students. She had recently completed her Core III course Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic, taught by Professor of French Thierry Boucquey, and was eager to get a jump start on a cross-cultural, language-teaching experience.
Read MoreIn the Media: Professor David M. Andrews Moderates Brexit Discussion
Professor of International Relations and Gabrielle Marie-Louise Jungels-Winkler Chair in Contemporary European Studies David M. Andrews moderated a teleconference discussion of Brexit for the Pacific Council on International Policy.
Read MoreFocus on Faculty: Sheila Walker, Professor of Psychology
Over the past few decades, the United States has become increasingly racially and ethnically diverse. However, within the discipline of psychology, studies of the lives of people of color in the U.S.鈥攅specially young women鈥攈ave been much too narrow, according to Professor of Psychology Sheila Walker.
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