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 Senior Celebration Ceremony Features Super Student Speaker
The SBS Senior Celebration Ceremony on May 11 in the Mullins Center featured a student speaker from each major. Each met with cheers and Dean Feldman hailed them all as "super." Congratulation to Sanjay Singh (economics), Ashley Cox (anthropology), Liam Lynch (STPEC), Heather Wood (sociology), Krystal Ford (landscape architecture), Melissa Panter (environmental design), Laurie Roberts (political science), Ashley Berger (legal studies), Amy Chaunt (journalism), and Rachel Levine (communication). Read their presentations....
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 Badgett Honored with University Conti Fellowship
M.V. Lee Badgett (economics), director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration and a leading global authority on the economics of same-sex marriage, has been awarded a Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship, a prestigious honor from the University that recognizes outstanding scholarly work. Read more...
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 International Conference, The Past for Sale? Coming Up at UMass Amherst
The UMass Amherst Center for Heritage & Society, part of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, will be holding its third annual International Conference on May 15-17, 2013. "The Past for Sale? New Perspectives on the Economic Entanglements of Cultural Heritage" has garnered 120 abstracts from participants representing 30 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Norway, Panama, Syria, and Zimbabwe. Read more...
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Grad Student Critique of Reinhart & Rogoff Report Goes Viral, Featured on Colbert
A working paper by PhD candidate Thomas Herndon and Professors Michael Ash and Robert Pollin (all economics) has garnered international attention in economic circles and far beyond, going viral on social media and featured on the Colbert Report. Heralded as a “bombshell report,” it revealed serious errors in a major study by eminent Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff that was used as the framework for austerity policies across the U.S. and internationally. Read more... |
 ISSR Consultants Strengthen Methods Support on Campus
The Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), based in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS), is changing the way social science faculty and graduate students pursue research on campus. Officially launched in fall 2012, ISSR has spent the year expanding methods and training opportunities for social science faculty. A major component of this expansion has been the institutionalization of methodology consulting within the Institute. Read more...
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 Sociologist, ISSR Scholar Focused on Work-Based Inequality in America
“I am a sociologist interested in race, racism, inequality,” says Enobong (Anna) Branch, assistant professor of sociology who is also an ISSR Scholar for 2012-13 with the Institute for Social Science Research. Her academic focus is examining how race, gender and class shape work-based inequality in America. She strives to explain the ways that race/ethnicity and gender are embedded in multilevel social processes leading to occupational segregation, social stratification, and differential life chances. Read more...
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