Tag: Social Sciences

"#Motivating | We are very pleased and proud to announce that one of our own — Becky Floyd (Professor of Anthropology, Social Sciences) — was nominated for 2015 Orange County Teacher of the Year. This prestigious recognition celebrates the most outstanding faculty in our region. Professor Floyd was honored at the annual"

"The Legacy Program is under new leadership. Cypress College Professor Regina Rhymes (Social Sciences, Sociology) has revamped the College’s Black Studies cohort. Established in 2000, Legacy was the very first community college program in Orange County to concentrate on the African American experience in the United States. The mission of the"

"Until recently, counties across California buried unidentified human remains – known as John & Jane Doe’s – in nondescript plots of open land. Many who reside in such cemeteries were victims of foul play and/or lived on the fringes of society. Their passings remain a mystery, their histories largely untold. It’s"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Tiana – Ask anyone on campus and they’ll agree – they’ve never seen a student like Tiana Buttice. In her five years at Cypress, Tiana has blossomed from a markedly reserved individual into an extraordinary student leader, both on campus and off. She currently represents the"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Eleese – Eleese Williams’ essence is resilience. She’s smart, beautiful and extraordinarily positive – a striking combination in and of itself, but all the more so in her case. From birth, she’s struggled with a potentially life threatening condition – sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell disease"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Stephanie – Stephanie Garcia is conflicted in the very best of ways – she got into all her transfer universities of choice but can’t decide which to attend. The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) has long been her dream school, but Cal State Long Beach"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Amalia Sanchez – Amalia is the very first college graduate in both her immediate and extended families. She started at Cypress at the age of 33 as a single mom of two with the hope that a certificate would enable her to attain financial stability. Through"

"Biological anthropologist Dr. Sharon DeWitte was the guest of The Anthropology Department on Thursday. Her talk was titled “Bioarchaeology of the Black Death: Insights from an Epidemic Cemetery.” A cartoon-style, four-minute summary of her most-recent research is available here: Related: Professor’s Anthropology Work Featured in Gizmodo"

"Greg Cavin and his colleague from the Philosophy Department of Skyline College, Dr. Carlos A. Colombetti, have a new article published on the philosophy of religion. The article is titled: “Evidence, Miracles, and the Existence of Jesus: Comments on Stephen Law.” It has been published in *Faith and Philosophy* (the Journal"

"How’d you spend you’re summer? It’s a question asked frequently on campus this time of year. For Anthropology Professor Craig Goralski, his time was spent under the blistering San Bernardino as part of an effort to identify some 700 unknown people in unmarked graves — some of them more than a"