College of Arts and Sciences

This Friday, November 9, Eva Kahana will deliver a lecture entitled "Too much trust? Older patients and their doctors."  The lecture is part of the Center for Policy Studies Public Affairs Discussion Group and will take place from 12:30 - 1:30 in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith Library.

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On October 30, Susan Hinze and Brian Gran participated in the Viewpoint Forum "Sex on campus: Sexual misconduct, #MeToo and a pathway forward." The forum was moderated by Susan Hinze and the discussion panel was composed of Brian Gran, Ronnie Dunn, Sondra Miller, and Lisa Nielson. The event was hosted by the Office...

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On October 20, Dale Dannefer delivered a keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Gerontology held in Vancouver. Dale's talk was entitled "Opening the Social: Sociological Imagination, Age and the Life Course."

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Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University and author of acclaimed book, The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology,visited the Department of Sociology on October 14-15.

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Eva Kahana was recently featured in The Daily in "The trust older patients place in doctors can compromise their medical care: study." The article discusses findings from an NIH funded research study in which data was collected from a diverse pool of 806 older adults from a large retirement...

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You are invited to join the Department of Sociology on Monday, October 15, 2018 for “W. E. B. Du Bois at the Center: From Science, Civil Rights Movement, to Black Lives Matter” presented by Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University.

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