Demographic research can shed a light on these daunting challenges and provide much-needed perspective on the traits as well as the tremendous risks and strengths of these vulnerable populations.
“The War of the Socks” may sound at first like a domestic drama. Yet to Daniel Bertrand Monk, professor of geography and Middle Eastern studies at Colgate, the...
Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the chief component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most cited of American Revolutionary primary sources.
When Prof. Ramesh Adhikari and his students started plugging their equipment into the glossy, heart-shaped leaves of the houseplant, they discovered properties that might make it perfect for building leaf-based electronics.
We’ve become a world of city dwellers. At the turn of the 20th century, only 13 percent of people around the world lived in cities — now 55 percent do.
The U.S. government’s H-1B visa program allows highly skilled foreign citizens to work in the United States for a temporary amount of time. Each year, more tha...