“The beautiful thing about people is we all come from different backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, and cultures. Absorbing knowledge from others is the best advice I have received as it allows me to learn and think with an open mind.”

SC&I alumnus Kevin Samaniego Calva ’20, who graduated with a degree in Information Technology and Informatics (ITI), is working as a software engineer and helping friends expand a nonprofit focused on environmental cleanup.

SC&I alumna Clarissa Guzman ’20, who graduated with a degree in Information Technology and Informatics (ITI), is finding early success as she uses her knowledge to guide her interests.

In a chapter titled “Networked Street Life,” published in the new “Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media,” Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lane addresses a new area of ethnographic field research that “links the inequality concerns of urban sociologists and digital scholars who are studying inequality, and particularly digital inequality, in urban neighborhoods.”

Alumna Barbara Burton’s new book explores Westfield’s 300-year history, including events during the American Revolutionary War, the day in 1838 when the train arrived, and the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Renowned Handbook includes a chapter by Chayko on the practice of identity, and one by Paris on information, technology, and work.

SC&I Assistant Professor Katherine Ognyanova has published new survey data from The COVID States Project, which explores the economic hardships confronting Americans.

Cheryl Klimaszewski, Ph.D ’20 was awarded second place in the Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition at ALISE for her dissertation research that combined aspects of autoethnography and visual data combined with textual and visual analysis to understand these homegrown, grassroots Romanian museums.