CLAS News - Fall/Winter 2004
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Around The College: New units from Public Programs; new research buildings; new health-care certificate |
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Research Briefs: Understanding why women see color better; linking teen sleep loss to suicidal behavior; developing a new bone-analysis tool; disputing assumptions about solar system’s birth; justifying college sports for its entertainment value |
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Where Have All the Frogs Gone? Ecologist and evolutionary biologist Jim Collins helps to unravel the mystery of the disappearing amphibians. |
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Battling Bullies at Work: Communication researchers find negativity common in U.S. organizations. Measuring the Political Mud: Communication and business profs track the presidential campaign’s nastiness. Bridging the Education Divide: CLAS researchers are playing a major role in efforts to improve PreK-12 education and have received more than $20 million in federal grants recently to help them do so. |
Strategic Hires: Meet the new chair of geography, director of women’s studies and director of African and African American studies. |
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Dean’s Distinguished Professors: Psychologist Nancy Gonzales and statistician Sharon Lohr are the newest faculty members to be singled out for distinction by the dean. |
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Margaret V. Barkley Melvin J. Frost William T. Ojala I. Gayle Shuman |
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Poll Watching in Indonesia: Political science doctoral student Chris Lundry spent nine days in Indonesia this fall monitoring the country’s first-ever presidential election. |
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