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Violent Video Games Not So Bad When Players Cooperate
David Ewoldsen, professor of communication, finds that people who play violent video games together as a team rather than against each other show more cooperative and less aggressive behavior.
Not Purely Academic! New Ohio Third Frontier Grant To Transform Language Tool
Professor Galal Walker and his team have funding to adapt an effective academic language tool for wider use.
Political Science Professor Authors Best Book on Urban Politics
Vladimir Kogan, assistant professor, political science, is coauthor of the book, Paradise Plundered: Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego, which has been named by American Political…
Sociologists Find Divorce Too Costly for America's Poorest
Dmitry Tumin, doctoral student and Zhenchao Qian, professor and chair, sociology, are authors of a new study finding that long-term separations are an alternative for poor couples who cannot afford…
How Early Humans Coped with Climate Change
Anthropologist Richard Yerkes Provides Clues For Managing Climate Change
Morton O’Kelly Appointed Director of CURA
Morton O’Kelly, professor of geography, has been appointed director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA)
The Field School in Medieval Archaeology and Bioarchaeology at Badia Pozzeveri
The Department of Anthropology and the University of Pisa have established the Field School in Medieval Archaeology and Bioarchaeology at Badia Pozzeveri.
Great Recession Caused More Young Adults to Live with Parents
Sociologist Zhenchao Qian is author of a new research brief finding that the number of young adults ages 20 to 34 who lived with their parents jumped during the "Great Recession," 2007-09.
Yacoubi Authors Book on Rushdie
Youssef Yacoubi, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, is author of the new book, The Play of Reasons: The Sacred and the Profane in Salman Rushdie's Fiction