QUEENSBURY — Phillip Naftaly, distinguished professor of anthropology and sociology at SUNY Adirondack, will present a talk titled “Tales from the Trenches: Toward an Anthropology of Assessment� at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, in the Scoville Learning Center, Room 210, on the SUNY Adirondack campus in Queensbury. The talk will last about an hour, with questions.

"Going Solo" (The Penguin Press), by Eric Klinenberg: Living in families, though traditional and almost universal on this evolving planet, is experiencing an unplanned but effective attack, according to a new book.

DAKAR, Feb 6 (IPS) - The friends of slain Senegalese student protester, Mamadou Diop, say that the 32-year-old master’s student was against injustice and that is why he was protesting against President Abdoulaye Wade’s bid for a third term of office.

HUNTINGTON -- Lauren Kemp is finishing up her sociology degree at Marshall University by trying to complete what you might say is some post-Oliver work.

Forming a nonprofit organization is not the easiest task, and sustaining it is even harder. Alex Epstein has managed to do both while in college. Epstein, a junior sociology major, created Philadelphia Urban Creators in 2010. PUC is an environmental nonprofit that aims to empower youth to create “self-sustaining, blossoming urban landscapes,� as stated on [...]

Dean’s list James A. Bickerstaff of Harriman has been named to the dean’s list at Towson University in Maryland with a 4.0 grade point average for the fall 2011 semester. A senior at Towson, James is a sociology-anthropology major with a concentration in criminal justice and a minor in psychology. He is a Towson University Scholar Athlete and a member of Alpha Phi Sigma, the National Criminal ...

She is the curly-haired rebel with a cause, known for organizing protests and counter-protests around Main Campus. Diane Isser, a junior political science and sociology major, takes political action unapologetically, and was the driving force behind the mountaintop removal coal mining protests, the Troy Davis protest on Main Campus and Temple’s involvement in Occupy Philly. [...]

Barnard College welcomes Marcia Lima, a professor of sociology at the University of São Paulo and Visiting Scholar at ILAS-Columbia University, for a lecture examining the challenges faced by private and public universities in Brazil with recently adopted race-based affirmative action policies.

Issues surrounding body image and its impact on mental and sexual health took the spotlight at a Monday panel in a crowded Branford Common Room. Lisa Wade, a professor of sociology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Yale’s Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education Center Director Carole Goldberg, and Chief of Student Health James Perlotto spoke at a panel entitled “Your Body is a ...

A sociology graduate student is one of the developers of a web app that will help Chicagoans navigate snow embanked streets.

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