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CSBS The Social Life Monthly
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We're excited to begin the 2016-2017 academic year here at the University of Utah! And what better way to do this than to introduce our new slogan:
INSPIRING HUMAN SOLUTIONS TO LIFE'S CHALLENGES
#bethesolution
Check out our Social Life monthly newsletter and you will see how we are continually inspiring human solutions to life's challenges through our college events and highlighted news!
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Date:Thursday, August 15th, 2016
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: BEH S Foyer and Plaza
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Date: Saturday, August 27th, 2016
Time: 10:00 AM*
*This is an all-day event. Please visit the website for more information.
Location: Riverton Centennial Park
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Date: Monday, August 29th, 2016
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Panorama East, Union Building
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Date: Thursday, September 8th, 2016
Time:12:00 - 1:30 PM
Location: Collegiate Room, Union Building
Guest Speaker: Steve Badger
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Gender studies professor and psychologist Lisa Diamond debunks various myths about bisexuality with Medical Daily.
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Geographer Tom Cova discusses the current disarray of emergency procedures.
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Mark Button, political science professor and chairman, discusses the rise of Trump and the "Triumph of Hubris" with the Oxford Press.
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Psychology professor Monisha Pasupathi discusses in the The Wall Street Journal how sharing stories helps storytellers find meaning in past experiences.
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Sociology professor Nicholas Wolfinger discovered the best age to get married to minimize chances of divorce and maximize the probability of finding the perfect match. You can read all about it here.
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Psychology professor Paul White discussed the strategies of politics and persuasion politicians have used this election cycle to secure the vote.
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Economics professor Peter Philips questions the validity of conservative Reason Foundation's study on cost-effectiveness of maintaining NJ highways.
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Sociology professor Theresa Martinez examines how we as Americans have defined patriotism throughout the years, as well as how we express it.
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The master of public administration program was recently ranked number 4 in Value Colleges' Top 50 Best Value MPA Programs.
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Anthropology associate professor Douglas Jones examines why humans are inclined to help their distant kin, despite the lack of genetic advantage that would provide.
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NCVS Director Craig Bryan fears that rising Army suicide rates may be the new normal, as experts are unsure of how to deal with this growing problem.
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Congratulations to Summer Rupper, associate professor of geography, for being awarded an NASA research grant. Her proposal was titled: "Precipitation and glacier change in high mountain Asia over the modern era".
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Psychology's Human Factors Program Director Frank Drews has received the University of Utah's Transforming U: Beacons of Excellence Award. This award recognizes the outstanding learning experiences that Drews and the human factors program provide to students.
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Congratulations to anthropology assistant professor Brian Codding, who recently received funding from the National Science Foundation, Archaeology Program for his research titled, "Explaining Great Basin Prearchaic foraging adaptations through the convergence of women's and men's foraging decisions."
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Political science assistant professor Eun Bin has been awarded the APSA Best Dissertation Award in Experimental Research. This is now her third dissertation award, following the APSA Best Dissertation Award in Political Psychology, and ISPP Best Dissertation Honorable Mention.
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NCVS Director and psychology associate professor Craig Bryan received the prestigious Presidential Scholar Award. This award recognizes excellence and achievement for faculty members at the associate professor level at the University of Utah.
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Congratulations to geography assistant professor Ran Wei received funding for her project titled, "Operational Efficiency, Service Quality and Access Equity".
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Congratulations to our faculty members who have received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation!
Megan Reynolds, assistant professor of sociology, received funding to support her research that examines the impact of social policy on obesity among young adults.
MPA & MPP Director Lina Svedin received funding to study state policy systems around children who have been reported as maltreated in the U.S. and the effects of a new Utah law on child maltreatment cases.
Psychology professor Bruce Ellis received funding to investigate the attention, learning, memory, problem solving, and decision-making strategies that are promoted by growing up under stressful childhood conditions, focusing on skills and abilities that can benefit at-risk youth.
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August 22nd - September 23rd
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