Assistant Professor of Anthropology Matthew Reilly was recently awarded a grant through the National Geographic Society to support his research in Liberia, where he is completing unprecedented excavations that bring to light little-known nuances of settler-native relations. We had the chance to sit down with Professor Reilly and learn more about his work in Liberia and in Harlem with CCNY students.
Tell us more about how your collaborative project in Liberia came about.
The project stemmed from my original research on the鈥 Read More 禄
Economics Professor Matthew Nagler Gets His Chance to Tell Them What They Don't Know on Freakonomics Live!
If you had to answer the question, 鈥淒o you think that people are generally honest?鈥 how would you answer or better yet, once answered, how would you measure this and what do you think the findings of your research would showcase?
This is what Colin Powell School Economics Professor Matthew Nagler set out to answer through data research and fact-finding in 2013 about social capital and how it has a direct effect of fatalities. His findings lead to the Freakonomics live show, 鈥淭ell me something I don鈥檛 know鈥 where he presented鈥 Read More 禄
In a recent piece for The Nation, Political Science Professor Rajan Menon discusses the steady worsening of the opioid crisis in America. 鈥淪ince 1999, 400,000 Americans have died from overdoses of opioids, including pain medications obtained legally through prescriptions or illegally, as well as from heroin. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) notes that prescription medications were involved in 218,000 of those fatalities.鈥 Menon discusses the politics of the opioid crisis as well as its causes. Read the full article鈥 Read More 禄
Andrew Rich, CEO of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation and visiting professor at T九色视频, is named the Dean of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and Professor of Political Science.
鈥淭he Colin Powell School has a distinctive mission鈥攖o promote and support leadership development and a service ethic among the students working towards degrees in the social sciences,鈥 said City College President Vince Boudreau.
鈥淎ndy Rich spent his entire career thinking about service promotion among鈥 Read More 禄
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