Current Issue: Winter 2008
Features
Tightrope Walker
The United States has its first viable black presidential candidate. Enid Logan explores how Barack Obama is a sign of our racial times.
April 3rd, 2008Bridging Race
When it comes to representations of multiracial people, Catherine Squires says, the media often don’t have it covered.
April 3rd, 2008Drinking from the Fire Hose
These days, medical information and health news coverage is everywhere—online, on television, on magazine covers. But are we parched in the deluge? Learn more
April 4th, 2008Ring Shouter
Yuichiro Onishi is changing the way we think about race.
April 8th, 2008Rain Man
To find material for his dissertation on art and politics, graduate student Adam Bahner can simply look in the mirror.
April 8th, 2008The Borders of Freedom
In a world of disappearing and permeable borders, are we really more free? Is the "globalized" world flat or just a slippery slope? A sociologist, a human geographer, a historian, and a political scientist weigh in.
April 9th, 2008The Internet: Face-off with Academia
CLA faculty members talk about issues regarding student online research, the Wiki-ization of knowledge, and the role of academia as a gatekeeper for knowledge.
April 9th, 2008Trading Spaces
Kale Fajardo finds that despite the idea that we live in a small world, the connections that space and technology facilitate can also reinforce cultural identification.
July 7th, 2008
Field of Inquiry
Shop Before You Drop
Pooling their expertise, two researchers cast some light on impulse buying.
April 4th, 2008Test Results
Graduate school entrance exam results don't create inequalities; they reflect them.
April 7th, 2008Teens, Sex and Mental Health
Sociologist Ann Meier looks at the affects of sex on teens' mental health. Adapted from a story by Rick Moore, University Relations
April 7th, 2008Musical Sights
A picture may be worth a thousand words. But for students in CLA music classes, they are also worth a thousand notes.
April 7th, 2008Building Makes Him Happy
Graduate student Justin Stewart turns everyday things into award-winning sculpture.
April 8th, 2008
By Pauline Oo
Full Circle
It's Beautiful
CLA grad Jeff Bauer is helping to change lives through art.
April 8th, 2008
Giving
Odyssey
With a commitment to modern Greek studies, Nicholas Kolas honors his heritage—and an old friend.
April 9th, 2008
Space Crafts
We may take for granted the spaces we inhabit, but CLA scholars who study space and place don't. From the cul-de-sacs of suburbs to the berths of trans-Pacific cargo ships, we shape and inhabit space—and are shaped by it—in ways that have profound implications in our lives.
By Danny LaChance
July 13th, 2007Scenes from the Mall
On a recent stroll down the Mall in Washington, D.C., Elaine Tyler May flashed on a conversation she’d had almost two decades ago inside the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. Her son Daniel, ten at the time, had been gazing, mouth agape, at the planes suspended from the ceiling.
July 13th, 2007Haunted Places
Space may be a language, but in some cases, place is what we turn to when language fails, when we can’t adequately express the contradictory, inchoate feelings we have about the past. To illustrate that point, associate professor of geography Karen Till recounts a story told by Hanno Loewy, director of the Frankfurt Center for Holocaust Studies.
July 13th, 2007Trading Spaces
Kale Fajardo finds that despite the idea that we live in a small world, the connections that space and technology facilitate can also reinforce cultural identification.
July 13th, 2007Deep Impact
July 27th, 2007
Neuroscientist Dan Kersten works to understand how the space in front of us is processed visually by the brain, allowing us to negotiate on a second-to-second basis—driving a car through traffic, maneuvering a pen over paper, dribbling a basketball toward a net. Learn more.OurSpace
A year ago, Alaska Senator Tad Stevens became the dunce of the day when he referred to the Internet as a “series of tubes� on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Stevens’s wording might have been crude, but it raised an honest question. What, exactly, is the Internet?
July 27th, 2007Difference 101: A Short Syllabus
July 27th, 2007Hazardous to your health
Last April, the New York Times reported a sharp up-tick in infant mortality rates in the South, a rise that was especially pronounced within the state’s disproportionately poor African American population.
July 31st, 2007Dysfunction's Function
July 31st, 2007A homogenous mosaic
July 31st, 2007Colorblind or colorbind?
At first glance, the work of these CLA researchers may seem to dovetail with the spirit of Proposition 54 and its assumption that classification can never serve good purposes.
July 31st, 2007