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Activities

Mark Huibregtse, professor of mathematics, and David Vella, professor of mathematics, made presentations at the twenty fifth annual April 7 at St. Lawrence University. Vella gave two talks, titled "Derived Games" and "Counterexamples to Primary Decomposition of ideals in Commutative Rings." Huibregtse's presentation was titled "Schemes of Points: Introduction." Vella and Lucy Spardy, assistant professor of mathematics, served on the HRUMC Steering Committee and helped plan the conference. Five ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø students also gave presentations: Xinyi Gu '20, Henry Huang '20, Chen Lin '18, Ping Lin '19 and Max Sharpe '20.

Christopher Mann, assistant professor of political science, brought a group of students to the April 7–8 in in Chicago. Mann co-authored, with Isabelle Fischer '18, a paper titled "Filling the Half Full Glass: Mobilization to Complete the Voting Process" that they presented at the conference. Six other students in the group presented papers or posters based on their senior theses or independent study projects that grew out of a class that ann taught last year.

Minita Sanghvi, assistant professor of management and business, spoke at the at the Sage Colleges Albany campus on April 8. The talk was based on her upcoming book, Why She Lost: Gender and Political Marketing in the 2016 Presidential Election.

, assistant professor of economics, was granted a $20,000 award by the (IFA) to carry out a project titled "Productive Pathways out of Poverty for Individuals with Disabilities." According to the project abstract, the objective of the research project is to provide information on whether IFAD's interventions can provide a path out of poverty for persons with disabilities and whether they are involved in the productive workforce in rural areas and if so, what kind of rural productive activities they are engaged in.


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