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December 11, 2024

Catherine White Berheide, Tisch Family Distinguished Professor and Professor of Sociology, coauthored a chapter, "The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Faculty Well-being: A Study of Academic Staff at Three Colleges in New York State," in an open-access book, “Well-being During the Pandemic: Comparative Perspectives from the Global North and South” (Springer, 2025). 

Mary Crone Odekon, professor of physics, published "Estimating the Masses of Supercluster-scale Filaments from Redshift Dispersions" in The Astrophysical Journal. 

Joowon Park, associate professor of anthropology, delivered book talks for the University of Melbourne and Indiana University. Park was also featured on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio to discuss the declaration of martial law in South Korea.

Pushkala Prasad, professor of management, gave an invited research seminar, “Capitalism’s Dark Complexion: Race, Markets and the Global System of Valuation,” sponsored by the Accounting Division of the Schulich School of Business at York University, Toronto, Canada, in November.


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