Carrie Bekerman
Raising Awareness About Health Literacy
R.V. Rikard Health literacy–the ability to read, understand, and act on health-related information–poses an enormous challenge to improving health and to lowering healthcare costs in the United States. Federal policies and agencies, such as HealthyPeople 2020, the 10-yearagenda for improving […]
The New Dating Game: When Dates Follow Hookups
New research sheds some light on just how complicated sex and dating are. Casual sex clearly carries its own risks, but the academic literature on “hooking up” may be presenting an unduly rosy picture of dating. New research doesn’t advocate […]
CHASS Student of the Month – October 2011
David Whitcher, October 2011 CHASS Student of the Month
How People Feel About Diversity And ‘Neighborhood Schools’: It’s Complicated
The Wake County Board of Education has been the subject of intense scrutiny in recent years as it debates issues related to diversity and “neighborhood schools,” and voters are preparing for board elections October 11. But researchers from NC State […]
Advances In Forensic Anthropology: 3D-ID
Sometimes law enforcement officials find partial human remains: like a human skull, with few or no other skeletal remains. How can you tell if it was even a man or woman? New technology called 3D-ID can help – giving forensic […]
Sociologist Ron Wimberley Dies
Dr. Ronald C. Wimberley, William Neal Reynolds professor of sociology and a member of the faculty for 40 years, has died. Wimberley was well known for research that described sociological factors that impact living conditions in the 11-state rural Black […]
Bioarchaeology Grad Student Wins Top Honors
First place honors in the Social Sciences category at the Graduate Student Research Symposium were awarded to Adrianne Offenbecker for her poster presentation, Examining the Role of Environmental Stress in the Etiology of Skeletal Defects. Offenbecker is pursuing her Master’s […]
Meet Martha Crowley, NC State Sociologist
Why does work matter? How do our experiences in work places affect other areas of our lives? Martha Crowley, assistant professor of sociology, focuses her research around such questions. In this video portrait, Crowley reflects on her research, on the […]
Caution: Your Child’s First Job Could Be Hazardous to Her Health
The Atlantic has published an article about workplace safety among teens, using research conducted by Sociologist Michael Schulman. An estimated 80 percent of teens are employed at some point during their high school years–but many of them are ill-equipped to […]
Alum Touches Base with Saudi Arabian Youngsters
Daniel Caldwell (Sociology ’04) refined swings, taught pitching mechanics and gave coaches instructions for 46 straight days this spring, often working all day in 120-degree heat as he taught baseball skills and coaching techniques in Saudi Arabia. But Caldwell, 30, […]