Richelle Wrinkler, assistant professor of sociology and demography, has recently published an article, “Living on lakes: Segregated communities and social exclusion in a natural amenity destination,” in The Sociological Quarterly.
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Lindsey Sladek is a First Prize Winner in National Geographic’s “The Full Story” contest. The photo competition was for amateurs. Sladek’s gallery is entitled “Music.”
Sladek came “home” to Tech to take coursework in the Department of Social Sciences for a social studies secondary education certificate; she got her BS in Anthropology from Grand Valley State University in 2008.
Local photographer places in National Geographic contest
She, along with four individual winners, won a Nikon D600 to shoot the full visual story she had pitched to compete for a shot at the grand prize, a trip to the Galapagos Islands with National Geographic Digital Nomad Andrew Evans. She had from Dec. 17 to Jan. 7 to shoot the story, using only the new D600 camera.
Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Stephen Anderson.
Photo Contest: The Full Story
Last fall these five talented amateur photographers each won a new Nikon D600 with which they shot their own FULL STORY.
Read more at National Geographic.
Social Sciences Seminar
Tapio Litmanen, professor and academy research fellow, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, will be giving a seminar on “Mining in Finland” from noon to 1 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 1 in the Academic Office Building, Room 201.
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Fourth Thursday in History
PhD student Sean Gohman spent months exploring over 300 poor rock, stamp sand tailings, and slag deposits across the Copper Country. Join him as he shares his thoughts about the value of this tangible evidence of mining on the landscape.
Event will be held at 7pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013, at the Keweenaw NHP Headquarters.
25970 Red Jacket Rd.
Calumet, Mi
For more information contact Keweenaw National Historical Park at (906) 337-3168 or by visit them on the web at www.nps.gov/kewe
Terry Reynold’s book Iron Will: The story of Cleveland-Cliffs is featured in Michigan Tech Research in Brief.
Read more at Research 2012.
Assistant Professor Adam Wellstead (SS) has coauthored a paper, “Dispersed Capacity and Weak Coordination: The Challenge of Climate Change Adaptation in Canada’s Forest Policy Sector” in Review of Policy Research, Volume 30, Issue 1, pages 66–90, Jan. 2013.
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Adam Wellstead (SS) cowrote the paper “Policy Capacity for Climate Change in Canada’s Transportation Sector” in Review of Policy Research. 2013 30:1. 19–41.
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Environmental and Energy Policy PhD student Valoree Gagnon has recently co-authored an article published in the current issue of Science Scope. Her article, titled “Connecting Earth Systems: Developing Holistic Understanding Through the Earth-System-Science Model,” discusses strategies for teachers to incorporate the Earth System Science model into the classroom. A copy of this article will be available for a short time in the Social Sciences department office. You can also access the article using the following citation information: Gagnon, Valoree and Heather Bradway, “Connecting Earth Systems: Developing Holistic Understanding Through the Earth-System-Science Model,” Science Scope (December 2012), Vol. 36, No. 4.
Dr. Kari Henquinet has been promoted to Fellow status in the Society for Applied Anthropology through unanimous approval by the Society’s Board of Directors. The primary objective of the Society for Applied Anthropology is the scientific investigation of the principles controlling the relations of human beings to one another and the wide application of those principles to practical problems.
Michigan Tech Lode, December 11, 2012. Embedded from Issuu.com:
Assistant Professor Richelle Winkler (SS) involved her Introduction to Sociology students in a real-life sociology lesson. Working with Brian Rendel at Copper Country Mental Health, Winkler’s students analyzed various risk factors for suicide among young people in the Copper Country. They will present their findings and recommendations for managing suicide risk at a public program at 11 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 13, in GLRC 202.
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