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Congratulating the 2026 SSD Recipients for Excellence in MA Advising and Mentoring
This year’s Awards for Excellence in MA Advising and Mentoring recognize professors celebrated for their generosity, encouragement, patience, and supp...
September 3, 2026
New Faculty Scholar Award Invests in Child Development and Education Scholarship
Gift shaped by alumna’s lifelong commitment to research and practice in these areasBy Sarah Steimer Throughout her career, including more than three d...
August 11, 2026
James M. Redfield, a Greek scholar and award-winning professor, dies at 91
Redfield is remembered as a profoundly original thinker and encouraging teacher. The night before he died, James M. Redfield’s son handed him an unmar...
June 9, 2026
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2026 Saller Prize Recipients Announced
Ibrahim Khan, PhD’25, from the Department of Political Science, and Xiaogao Zhou, PhD’25, from the Department of Sociology, have been selected as the ...
May 6, 2026
New research suggests memorable images are more likely to go viral online
The Brain Bridge study argues that memorability has a greater impact on virality than emotion.By Sarah Steimer If you see a photo of a beautiful beach...
February 4, 2026
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Congratulating the 2025-26 Dissertation Fellows
Each year, a limited number of dissertation fellowships are awarded to SSD doctoral students sufficiently advanced to the writing stage of their progr...
September 12, 2025
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to speak on resisting tyranny at the second Havel Lecture
By Sarah Steimer In 2020, an English teacher and mother found herself leading a democratic movement in Belarus. Although she was exiled from the count...
September 4, 2025
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Oh, the places they go! Tune in to SSD’s new Dialogo alumni podcast
Alumni conversations illustrate where a social sciences degree have taken them.By Sarah Steimer Traditional ways of communicating with students past, ...
March 14, 2025
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Former CIA Director William J. Burns to Keynote 2025 Hagel Lecture
With his recent role as the head of the U.S. intelligence community, Burns offers intimate insight into how world leaders think — and how their intera...
April 22, 2025