Social Sciences News
 Media Advisory: Secretary of State Moore to Announce Major Investments in Social Sciences and Humanities Research (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) Media representatives are invited to attend a news conference where Secretary of State James Moore will make a major funding announcement in support of social sciences and humanities research.
Scipione's head of the class (Hawkesbury Gazette) NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione is now a lecturer at the University of Western Sydney’s School of Social Sciences on the Hawkesbury campus.
Radio personality offers expertise in comm class (The Sentinel) On the second official day of the Fall 2008 semester, a loud, booming voice could be heard from outside of room 2025 in the Social Sciences Building.
Extreme gender injustice (MSU Reporter) The public sees much of reality T.V. as being an outrageous and false version of actual reality, but one show has affected an MSU professor in a very serious way. Sociology professor Emily Boyd has been working on her 150-page dissertation for about two years and will soon be submitting it to the social sciences journal "Signs" after condensing it to the size of a two-page article.
Broadview Press Inc. Announces Q2 2008 Results (CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance) CALGARY, ALBERTA-- - Broadview Press reports net sales for Q2 2008 of $336,212 . Over the first two quarters net sales totaled $874,212 . The reduction in sales levels from 2007 levels comes in the wake of the Company's May 1 sale of its History and Social Sciences lists to the University of Toronto Press; the Company's focus is now exclusively as a publisher in the Humanities .
Student Spotlight: Lorenzo and Vincente Herrera (San Diego Union-Tribune) SignOnSanDiego.com, San Diego's city guide to arts and entertainment activities, events, bars, restaurants, hotels, shopping plus news, sports, classifieds and visitor info.
America's Elderly Suffering Abuse (Medical News Today) A new study concludes that nearly 13 percent of America's aged citizens suffer some form of abuse. Specifically, nine percent of adults reported they have suffered from verbal mistreatment, 3.5 percent suffer financial mistreatment, and 0.2 percent suffer physical mistreatment. This data was reported in the latest issue of The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences (Volume 63B, Number 4).
Germany provides master’s degree scholarships at University of Potsdam (Moldova.org) The University of Potsdam, Germany, offers the Moldovan young people the possibility of applying for 13 scholarships for master’s degree programs in the area of public management and global public policies. According to the Ministry of Education and Youth of Moldova, the mentioned programs apply to graduates in economics, business management, social sciences or in other relevant fields. Among ...
China faces a new world order of trade (International Herald Tribune) A spate of factors including a weak dollar, sluggish U.S. demand and high commodity prices have started to rebalance the trade accounts of China and the United States.
Free expression, to a T (Denver Post via Yahoo! News) In Civic Center on Tuesday afternoon, Annie and Samantha Woods were spray-painting T-shirts in the back of their 1990 Volvo station wagon.
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