Wesley Perkins, professor of sociology, and David Craig, professor of chemistry, gave several presentations at the 2010 National Conference on the Social Norms Approach meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., from July 11 through 13. The national conference has been meeting annually for more than 10 years and is entirely devoted to the social norms model for promoting health and well-being and reducing ris... More >>
Jacquelyn Litt '80, an award-winning sociologist and the founding chair of women's and gender studies at the University of Missouri, has been appointed the new dean of Douglass Residential College and the Douglass Campus at Rutgers University. Litt begins her term as Douglass dean on Sept. 1.
Douglass Residential College is a community of students who elect to participate in a women's leadershi... More >>
Sharla Toups '92 refers to classmate Carrie Firestone as "William Smith's own Erin Brockovich" for the work she is doing in her former hometown of Ilion, N.Y. Firestone has, for more than a year, been trying to get environmental and health risk studies conducted in the village, citing rates of cancer and evidence of groundwater contamination.
A recent article in the Evening Telegram featured Fire... More >>
