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Jan 4, 2011

MSNBC Taps CHASS Historian for Reaction to Mississippi Governor’s Account of Civil Rights Era

Professor of History Blair Kelley was featured recently on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann regarding Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour’s comments about the role of the segregationist Citizen’s Councils during the civil rights era. See the interview here.

Jan 3, 2011

CHASS Anthropologist Discusses Big Money on NPR

CHASS anthropologist Scott Fitzpatrick was recently featured on NPR’s “Planet Money” about Yap and the nature of money. Listen to the broadcast at http://n.pr/gphok0 . The following is reprinted from Planet Money’s website: There’s a tiny island called Yap out in the Pacific Ocean. Economists love it because it helps answer this really basic question:…

Jan 3, 2011

Birkland to Lead CHASS Research and Engagement

Thomas A. Birkland has been named CHASS associate dean for research, extension, engagement, and economic development (REEED), effective January 1, 2011. Birkland will support faculty in seeking grant and fellowship support; serve as an advocate for CHASS research and scholarship at all levels; help support , coordinate, and publicize CHASS extension and engagement; and promote…

Jan 1, 2011

CHASS Student of the Month – January 2011

Jane Kohan, January 2011 CHASS Student of the Month.

Dec 30, 2010

CHASS Student of the Month – December 2010

Erin Sexton, December 2010 CHASS Student of the Month.

Dec 15, 2010

Setting the Raleigh Public Record straight

Carrie McGahaCHASS Communications InternThey say the newspaper is dying. More than a decade into the twenty-first century, people have begun to put down their newspapers and get their news off the Internet. Although people may not be sitting down with a cup of coffee and unrolling a printed newspaper these days, a CHASS alum has…

Dec 6, 2010

Young Learners Get HELPS

Carrie McGahaCHASS Communications Intern“Today my family is going to have a yard sale. At first, I thought a yard sale meant that people were going to buy our front yard.” They are simple sentences, but chances that a fourth-grader in the United States can make sense of them are barely above 50/50. Assistant Professor of…

Nov 17, 2010

Riding the Cash Cab

CHASS alum Greg Volk has made a career out of coming up with great questions. He has also won Emmy awards for his question-writing prowess on the hit television game show "Cash Cab." Volk's advice to those who want to write for television or movies: write every chance you get.

Nov 17, 2010

Discovering the lost city and a love for travel

Carrie McGaha CHASS Communications Intern See the world! Climb mountains, visit ancient ruins, improve your foreign language skills! Eat guinea pig! Stephanie Wilson (Psychology ’12) did it all last summer studying abroad in Peru. NC State’s Study Abroad program has greatly impacted thousands of students’ lives over the years. Students grow personally, become catalysts for…

Nov 15, 2010

The Dean’s Corner: The Power of Poetry

I recently attended two events that seemed at first blush to be quite different: a poetry reading (delivered in Arabic and English) sponsored by CHASS, and a dinner of US Special Operations Command officers to which I’d been invited by Col. Ken Rataschack, Commander of NC State’s ROTC unit. The contrast between the two groups…