Calling all Foodies!

Sociology Professor Drew will be taking her class to a Private Showing of the 2009 documentary “Food, Inc.” featuring Michael Pollen (author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma (2007) and more recently, In Defense of Food (2009)) next week and there are a few extra seats that are available for other interested students for the price of $5.

To view a trailer of the film, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKYyD14d_0

Date: Wednesday, October 7.

Time: Leave campus by vans or car at 6:30, for 7:00 showing. Return by 9:30

Where: Coolidge Corner Cinema, Harvard Street (Coolidge Corner) in Brookline

To Attend: You need to register with the Social Science department to attend this trip. To register, please bring $5 to Anne Mullaney, her office is on the first floor of Plummer House (144 Woodland Street).

If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Drew (jdrew@lasell.edu) or Prof. Rosenthal (lrosenthal@lasell.edu).

Changes in the Social Science Department

This has been a very eventful summer and fall for the Social Sciences Department! We've had many changes and have a lot of exciting plans for the upcoming year.

Our biggest change this year was that two of our beloved faculty members have left the campus but, of course, they can't leave our Lasell Family!

• Professor Felice Gordis retired and moved to New York to spend more time with her grandchildren.
• Professor Sidney Trantham left to pursue clinical and teaching opportunities in the graduate program at Lesley.

We will miss them both but they are only an email away!

Another change this year is that we have a new Department Chair: Professor Lori Rosenthal. Professor Rosenthal teaches Experimental Design, Group Dynamics, Child Development and Introduction to Psychology. She also teaches two classes in the graduate program -- Organizational Behavior and Consumer Behavior. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in Social/Personality Psychology with concentrations in Statistical Analysis and Organizational and Consumer Studies. She came to Lasell two years ago from the faculty at Emerson College. Professor Rosenthal is currently conducting research on pro-anorexia websites as well as on the role of connected learning on student's educational experiences.

This year the department will be very busy. We have our Social Science Peer Mentor group underway, we will be hiring two new faculty members, we will be inducting students into our newly approved national honor society, and we will be reviewing the curriculum in each of the majors offered in Social Sciences.

Stay tuned to this blog for updates about the department as well as information about recent research and current events that relate to faculty and student interests in Social Sciences.