Xavi Escandell, associate professor of sociology, will present "Gender Gaps in Educational Outcomes Among Children of New Migrants: The Role of Social Integration from a Comparative Perspective."
Lazarus Adua, assistant professor of sociology, will present “Spatial Inequality in Energetic Pain: Is there an Energy-Related Market ‘Subsidy’ for Residing in Rural America?”
Qingli Meng, assistant professor of criminology, will present "Corruption in the Chinese Higher Educational Sector."
Presented by Zhizhou Du of Beihang University, China.
A panel of international students will explore similarities and differences in the forms and use of social media both within the students’ home countries and as international students in the United States. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology Colloquium Series, the Department of Languages and Literatures, Reaching for Higher Ground and UNI Business Global Associates.
Public lecture by Dr. Hui Wilcox, associate professor of sociology at St. Catherine’s University. Wilcox will discuss the spread of the multisensory social media app WeChat among Chinese immigrants and its implications for the study of transnationalism. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology Colloquium Series, the Department of Languages and Literatures, Reaching for Higher Ground and UNI Business Global Associates.
Swearing in ceremony for new U.S. citizens. Free and open to the public.