Events

Guest Speaker from The Innocence Project

Andrew Criss — 2011-02-03T20:05:00Z

The project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. As a clinic, law students handle case work while supervised by a team of attorneys and clinic staff.

Our guest speakers will be Elizabeth Webster and Nicole Harris from the Innocence Project.

This visit was organized by Dr. Robin A. Harper, an Assistant Professor of political science and the Pre-Law advisor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences. This program is open to all interested students and faculty. The mission and work of The Innocence Project incorporates the work of specialists in many fields including criminal justice, ethics and jurisprudence, sociology, genetics, biotechnology, and chemistry to name a few. This is a great opportunity to se the subjects taught in the classrooms at work in the "real world".

Faculty are welcome to bring their classes to this event.

If you are interested in attending, please let us know by sending an e-mail to Robin A. Harper

Additional information about this program, such as room location, will be released shortly.

Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day

Miguel Bernard — 2011-01-26T23:25:00Z

In her endorsement of the College’s involvement in the Program, President Keizs has suggested that there is much the young people in our College Community can learn from us through a structured, day-long program of activities.

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Memorial Service - Professor Amos Odenyo

erictyrer — 2007-10-18T17:17:43Z

The Social Sciences Department Is Hosting A Memorial Service Today
For Dr. Amos Odenyo In The African American Research Center, Room 3B04. Dr. Odenyo Was A Professor In Sociology For 34 Years. He Passed Away On July 28, 2007 .

There Will Be A Reception At 4:00 Pm Followed By A Short Program, Which Includes Speakers And A Video Of Dr. Odenyo's Life.

A Post Genomic Surprise: The Molecular Reinscription of Race in Clinical Medicine & Forensic Science

Miguel Bernard — 2007-03-07T12:43:00Z

At the March, 2000 news conference at the White House, President Clinton and Prime Minister Blair jointly hosted and celebrated the completion of the "first draft" of the full map and sequence of the human genome. Francis Collins and Craig Venter, fierce competitors in the race to complete the map, stepped forward to agree on one thing -- that the Human Genome Project provided definitive evidence that racial categories have no meaning at the level of the DNA. The oft-quoted figure of "we are all 99.9 per cent alike" (in our DNA) became a mantra for the next few years. However, at the same time, there was a "turn to difference" in the new fields of pharmacogenomics and pharmacotoxicology, aided by supercomputers and the capacity to do profiles of the more than 3 million points of difference (DNA markers) between any two individuals. It would soon follow that the technology would be used to find patterned markers of differences between groups of individuals, socially marked. This generated a huge debate, culminating in the approval by the FDA in June, 2005 of the first race-based drug, BiDil, about the role of race in clinical medicine. In addition, the whole arena of "ancestral informative markers" has burgeoned, both as "recreational" knowledge about ancestral origins, but as well in forensics, as a means of predicting the race of a crime suspect based upon tissue samples left at a crime scene. These converging developments are ushering in a new era of the reinscription of race as a category in biology, clinical medicine, and forensics, and the implications for social science and public policy are profound. This lecture will examine some of the social and political implications of these developments.

All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.