The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) is providing support to its faculty for engaging in activities that promote their research and creative work and enhance the profile of the college and university. A critical feature of a productive research program is the ability to disseminate findings and engage...

Communication Assistant Professor Amy Hasinoff’s book, Sexting Panic , won the National Communication Association's 2016 Diamond Anniversary Book Award .

The Department of Communication is pleased to announce the inaugural recipient of the Community Health Education and Retention Scholarship (CHEARS). This year’s scholarship was awarded to Matthew Wilkin , a COMM major who works with student organizations like Love Your Melon, which helps children battle cancer, and the student veteran...

A new study, co-authored by Health & Behavioral Sciences and Anthropology Professor David P. Tracer, shows that while evolutionary and other economic theories expect humans, like other animals, to behave selfishly to maximize material gains, human cooperation occurs when reputation is at stake. The study, published in the journal Nature...

Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Rachel Harding has published an essay on connections between the African American spirituals tradition and African-based ritual practices in Cuba, Haiti and Brazil. The essay, "Você tem direito à árvore da vida: spirituals afro-americanas e religiões da diáspora," is published in Portuguese in the collection...

Chris Beekman , Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology, recently returned from a productive sabbatical. In addition to making significant progress on his own book, he published a co-edited volume with Robert Pickering (of the Gilcrease Museum) Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society: A Reassessment . This book...

Casey Allen , Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Science, recently published two articles. The Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (JASR) article (written with several colleagues) offers further validity to RASI—a tool Allen helped pioneer and have been using for almost a decade. Aligned with this, one of Allen’s undergraduate...