Social
Justice
CC Professor Explores Food Insecurity Among Black Mothers
Megan Clancy ’07
Dr. Cayce Hughes, CC Assistant Professor of Sociology, recently published two papers stemming from his work with collaborators at Rice University and North Carolina State. Their study focuses on how low-income mothers in Sunnyside, TX, a high-poverty, historically Black neighborhood in Houston, navigate food insecurity. Hughes and his colleagues began their research in the fall of 2020, looking at pandemic responses and food-related supports.
MELLON GRANT FUNDS STUDENTS’ SOCIAL JUSTICE PROJECTS
Julia Fennell ’21
CC is awarding funding to social justice student projects that utilize humanities methods through its Humanities for Our Times grant, generously funded by the Mellon Foundation.
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CC ALUMS WORK AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SCIENCE
Megan Clancy ’07
Four CC alums working on BSCS Science Learning’s Humane Genetics team are the authors of two papers published in the February 2024 issue of Science.
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CC JOINS COLLEGE PRESIDENTS FOR CIVIC PREPAREDNESS
Julia Fennell ’21
President Richardson has joined a group of 20 college and university presidents who are committed to promoting free speech and civil discourse on college campuses.
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CC ALUM EXPOSES GOVERNMENT DISREGARD FOR EVERYTHING DOWNWIND
Megan Clancy ’07
Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada?
With the recent motion picture release of Oppenheimer, many have found a new or renewed interest in the Manhattan Project and the era of American history when the country was working to create the first atomic bomb. However, one CC alum has been thinking about these events for much longer and sees things a bit differently than the heroic Hollywood portrayal.
