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For their summer research project Emnet Sisay ’22 and Mckela Kanu ’22 decided to create a podcast rather than a paper so their work would be more accessible. That’s how they discovered how hard it is to create a podcast, even with support. But it was worth it.
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The Racial Justice and Criminal Justice in Oneida & Herkimer Counties Series continued on Oct. 7 with its third installment titled “Why is Diversity Not Enough?: Training and Best Practices for Policing Reform.”
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Utica College Professor Anthony Baird, Hamilton Professor Todd Franklin, and SUNY Polytechnic Institute Professors Mark Montgomery and Ronni Tichenor spoke in a webinar addressing “What is Systemic, or Institutional Racism?” on Sept. 30. This event was part of an ongoing series focused on Racial Justice and Criminal Justice Reform in Oneida and Herkimer Counties.
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Utica City Councilman Delvin Moody and Utica College Professors Clemmie Harris and Bernard Hyman spoke in a Zoom webinar titled “Black Lives Matter: The Movement and Its Importance to All of Us” on Sept. 23. The webinar, which was also broadcasted on WUTR, was moderated by Hamilton Professor Frank Anechiarico and sponsored in part by the Levitt Center Law and Justice Lab.
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As a summer intern with the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, Carson Goos ’21 talked with patients to help determine their needs and helped guide them to resources.
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His commitment to "helping people in various conditions" prompted Tómas Alvarez-Perez ’22 to apply for — and get — a summer internship through the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty.
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New data from the Survey of Russian Elites suggest that U.S.-Russian relations will not improve any time soon, at least insofar as they depend on the foreign policy attitudes of high-ranking Russians.
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Ashley Garcia ’22 got the inspiration for her summer Levitt research project after reflecting on the lack of conversation surrounding issues of colorism within the Latinx community.
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Professor of Government and Department Chair Sharon Rivera co-authored an op-ed in The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog titled "Russia’s referendum could keep Vladimir Putin in power until 2036."
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Estella Brenneman ’20, a religious studies major, walked 300 miles along the Camino de Santiago, a historic pilgrimage route in Spain as part of her Levitt Center research project. The College provided the resources for Estella to go, and she talks about how much she loved returning “home” to the Co-Op, a campus residential option located in Woollcott House.
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