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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
Dan Sui appointed to AAAS committee on geospatial technologies and human rights issues
Daniel Sui, professor and chair of geography, has been appointed to a committee of AAAS to explore the applications of geospatial technologies to human rights issues.
Communications Professor on Dangers of Multitasking
Zheng Wang is lead author of a study finding that trying to do two visual tasks at once hurts performance in both tasks significantly more than combining a visual and an audio task
Geography Professor on the Politics of Climate Change
Joel Wainwright, associate professor of geography,on the political consequences of the responses to the threats of climate change