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Health & Society

Q&A: Associate Professor Thomas Keck on Gay Marriage Ruling

Monday, June 29, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the country Friday, setting off reverberations for broader impacts on equal rights. Maxwell School Associate Professor of Political Science Thomas M. Keck offered some perspective on the 5-4 decision….

Arts & Culture

English Department Shines at Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference

Thursday, May 7, 2015, By Rob Enslin

The Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences was the bona fide star of the 56th annual conference of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS), recently held in Montreal, Canada. More than 15 people affiliated…

Arts & Culture

Zach Stringham ’15 Wins Industrial Designers Society of America Student Merit Award

Tuesday, May 5, 2015, By Erica Blust

Zach Stringham ’15, an industrial and interaction design (IID) major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Design, was named the Student Merit Award (SMA) winner of the Industrial Designers Society of America’s (IDSA) Northeast district during…

Hurst-Wahl to Keynote Rockland Library Association Conference

Tuesday, April 28, 2015, By Diane Stirling

“Creating Sparks That Light Our Profession” is the topic of the keynote address that School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty member Jill Hurst-Wahl will present when she keynotes the Library Association of Rockland County, N.Y.’s bi-annual conference. Titled, “Let The…

Arts & Culture

Graduate Program in Museums Attends Annual Meeting of Museum Association of New York

Friday, April 24, 2015, By News Staff

The Museum Association of New York (MANY) held its annual meeting at the Corning Museum of Glass and the Rockwell Museum in Corning April 12 -14. Current students and alumni from the University’s graduate Program in Museum Studies were well…

Media, Law & Policy

Scott Barrett Named Maxwell School’s Associate Dean for Strategic Communications and External Affairs

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By News Staff

Scott Barrett has been named associate dean for strategic communications and external affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He will assume his new position on May 8. Barrett has led all aspects of fundraising, as well as…

Campus & Community

Student Association Provides Help With Spring Break Escape

Friday, March 20, 2015, By Keith Kobland

Students are back from Spring Break, but for those who didn’t have a car or cab ride to get to where they needed to go, there was another option. Michael Helfenbein ’15 produced this video, demonstrating how the Student Association…

Health & Society

March Is National Social Work Month

Monday, March 16, 2015, By Michele Barrett

As the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) began its annual commemoration of National Professional Social Work Month on March 1, the School of Social Work in the Falk College has planned a series of activities as part of its…

Crystal Laura to Present ‘Against the Social Ecology of School Discipline’

Wednesday, February 25, 2015, By Jennifer Russo

The School of Education continues the Douglas P. Biklen Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series on Thursday, Feb. 26, with Crystal T. Laura, assistant professor of educational leadership at Chicago State University. Laura will present “Against the Social Ecology of…

Media, Law & Policy

Law Professor LaVonda Reed Named Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs

Wednesday, February 11, 2015, By Carol Boll

Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost Liz Liddy today announced that LaVonda N. Reed, professor in the College of Law, will join the Office of the Provost as associate provost for faculty affairs. In her new capacity, Reed will be a…