DCCC Student History Club Magazine

DCCC Student History Club Hosts Vikings

Our history faculty started a new Student History Club in Fall 2008. The club sponsored a presentation by the Leif Ericson Viking Ship Living History Group in the large auditorium on 24 November.

A Viking Speaks at DCCC

Our Students Speak with Vikings

Dr. Audrey Ervin (Psychology)

Audrey Ervin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, has been selected to sail as staff psychologist with Semester At Sea http://www.semesteratsea.org/ for the summer 2009 voyage. Semester At Sea is the world's premier shipboard program for comparative international education. A floating university, approximately 700 students live aboard the MV Explorer, circumnavigate the globe and earn undergraduate academic credit through the University of Virginia. The theme of the summer 2009 voyage http://www.semesteratsea.org/voyages/upcoming-voyages/summer-2009.phps is "Human Rights and Social Justice in the Mediterranean World." The ship will sail from Halifax Nova Scotia to Spain, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Egypt and Morocco.

Audrey Ervin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, has been selected to serve as the national spokesperson for the Association of Women in Psychology (AWP) http://www.awpsych.org/ in November 2008. AWP is a not-for-profit scientific and educational organization committed to encouraging feminist psychological research, theory, and activism. A three year appointment, she currently serves on the Implementation Collective board.

Dr. Adriana Leela Bohm (Sociology)

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dr. Adriana Leela Bohm helped facilitate a workshop at the Society for The Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Annual Conference this past summer in Boston. The workshop was entitled "Working Together to End Racism." She was also a committee member for the SSSP Minority Scholarship Award for 2007-2008. This year (2008-2009), Dr. Bohm chairs the scholarship committee. The annual conference will be in San Francisco.