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Southern Political Science Association Conference 2019

Jan 17, 2019

Ana Schugurensky, class of 2020, reports on her experience attending and presenting at the 2019 SPSA conference.

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Soka Hosts First SEED Business Symposium

Nov 30, 2018

SUA’s first Social Enterprise & Economic Development Business Symposium features high-level leaders and speakers from innovative companies around the country.

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Meet the Author Series | Ted Lowe, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Nov 14, 2018

Professor Edward D. Lowe’s presentation “Whatever I have to Do That’s Right: Culture and the Precariousness of Personhood in a Poor Urban Neighborhood”, was derived from a special issue of Ethos

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Meet the Author Series | John Merzel, Professor of Mathematics

Oct 17, 2018

Jonathan Merzel, Professor of Mathematics, provided an extremely engaging talk entitled “The Space of Real Places on R (x, y)” in the Athenaeum Library on October 17, 2018. Professor Merzel’s

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Public Talk: "Organizational Moral Distress and the Role of the Healthcare Professional"

Oct 04, 2018

Please join us for the public talk by Dr. Pat Werhane on Thursday, October 11!

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Fifth Annual Dialogue on the Culture of Peace and Non-Violence with Ira Hefland

Oct 01, 2018

The Fifth Annual Dialogue on the Culture of Peace and Non-Violence welcomed Dr. Ira Helfand to the Soka University of America Athenaeum on October 2, 2018. Sponsored by the generous support from The

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Meet the Author Series | Sarah England, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Sep 19, 2018

The first Meet the Author event, honoring Professor Sarah England’s new book, Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of Violence against women in Guatemala, was held on Wednesday, Sept

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Faculty News

Sep 01, 2018

Ted Lowe – Associate Professor of Anthropology​ Prof. Ted Lowe was invited to give a presentation of his new article, “Configuring Epidemic Suicide in Oceania” at the Department of Global Health and

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Academic Opening Fall 2018 | Faculty Workshops and Welcome Dinner for Incoming Students

Sep 01, 2018

The opening of our new Fall 2018 semester at Soka University of America featured a number of festive welcoming events for both new faculty and new students. Throughout the day on September 5, a new

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Meet the 2018-2019 Postdoc Fellow

Aug 31, 2018

The PBRC is happy to announce Dr. Laureen Hom as our 2018-19 John D. Montgomery Post-Doctoral Fellow! Dr. Hom received her PhD in Planning, Policy, and Design with an emphasis in Asian American