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The Case of Hostile Terrain ’94 at the University of Oregon 

Anthropology News

The two cultural anthropologists on our team (Hansen and Yarris) regularly teach undergraduate and graduate courses related to immigration policy, migration studies, deportation, and immigrant social movements. immigration policies could directly lead to so much human devastation. Students shared emergent understandings of U.S.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

. — Danilo Moreta, a Cornell University graduate student studying corn breeding, stood wearing jeans and a black button-down shirt as undergraduate students entered room 336 in the Plant Science Building for a Tuesday night section of PLSCI 4300, Applications in Molecular Diagnostics. Moreta teaches the science section in Spanish.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach his students about similar events that happened in a divided United States 150 years ago. history when black lives mattered.”.

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