Division of Social Sciences
Under Jacqueline McCurdy’s direction, Second Verse Choir makes beautiful music where speech science meets the singing voice.
New research shows that a different kind of breast cancer awareness starts with better communication.
In the weeks following 9/11, ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ sociologist Lori Peek was in New York City hearing the stories of Muslim Americans navigating suspicion, hostility and questions of identity and belonging.
ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ sociologist shines light on understudied area of wildfire research: how wildland firefighting fatalities affect the people on the front lines.
For ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ scholar Shawn Trenell O’Neal, the outpouring of grief over Dolly Parton’s death in Black communities bespeaks the legend’s humanity and allyship.
ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ political scientist Sarah Wilson Sokhey says the underlying lesson of the nuclear catastrophe is that the risk has not gone away—and that such disasters don’t recognize national borders.
ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ researchers ask who decides to stay behind when climate disaster strikes.
ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ Natural Hazards Center Director Lori Peek says there are still lessons to be learned from the devastating flash flood, 50 years later.
How the development of solar and wind farms on the Tibetan Plateau is affecting local communities.