News

Historian Pamela H. Smith's Making & Knowing Project was recently featured in Popular Science.

Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Jennifer Hirsch (ILAS, ISHR) and sociologist and chair Shamus Khan co-authored a piece for the Washington Post on their research findings that demonstrate that black students experience campus sexual violence in significantly different ways from white students.

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Political scientist and chair Gregory Wawro was interviewed in Newsweek on how Michael Bloomberg's personal wealth makes his presidential campaign viable without a reliance on donors.

By Shane Croucher

Michael Bloomberg has pledged to spend whatever it takes on his 2020 campaign as he entered late to the race for the Democratic nomination. If his past record of campaign spending while running for New York City mayor is anything to go by, he could spend a record shattering $6.5 billion.

Sociologist Jennifer Lee was interviewed in the NY Times on Chinese restaurant closures that seem to correlate to the economic mobility of second generation Chinese Americans.

By Amelia Nierenberg and Quoctrung Bui

KINGSTON, N.Y. — More than 40 years after buying Eng’s, a Chinese-American restaurant in the Hudson Valley, Tom Sit is reluctantly considering retirement.