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New Spring 2025 Course! SOCY 497: Family Research Seminar (Tuesdays, 4:30-7pm) Gain experience in research for your grad school applications and resume (no previous experience required) while...

Course description: This course explores how European communities are facing critical challenges such as migration, human rights, climate change and globalization. Students will use...

Course description: This course examines the complex interplay between environmental issues and societal structures through a sociological lens. Students will explore how health, justice,...

Jennifer Artis, senior director of student belonging, and Dr. Samantha Smith, director, Office of Health Promotion (OHP), were selected for the 2024 Ujima Institute Cohort, held in October. The...

Celebrating Suliyat Adewuyi, a Best Friend of McNair, on her first co-authored publication! Suliyat is a Public Health major graduating in Dec 2024 who has been a Best Friend of the McNair...

Course description: Sociological analysis of the types of minority-majority group relations and the effects of these relationships on society and the groups and the individuals involved.

Katie Birger (Public Health): "Leveraging Curricular Analytics to Enhance Student Success in Public Health Courses." Building upon research presented at the Eighth Annual Provost's Teaching and...

At the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) meeting over the weekend in Seattle, Dr. Schumacher and Dr. Yamashita competed in the first ever Pickleball tournament there! They defeated...

Huge congratulations to Dr. Takashi Yamashita for his insightful talk, "When Does Our Education End? – Aging and Life Course Perspectives," at GRIT-X 2024! If you missed it live, you can still...

Dr. Arielle Kuperberg, Associate Professor of Sociology in the Sociology, Anthropology and Public Health Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County was recently re-elected to lead...