Dr. Amber Crowell, professor in the Department of Sociology and SSRIC Council Chair, and Dr. Lisa Bryant, professor and chair in the Department of Political Science, are organizing the 51st annual CSU-wide Social Science Student Symposium (S4), which will be held at the Fresno State Library on Friday, May 1.
Undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students from all CSU campuses will make 12- to 15-minute presentations about their research projects.
Students will present research on a variety of topics, including domestic and international-focused projects tied to climate, communities, consumerism, criminology, culture, education, families, gender and identity, health, history, mental health, politics, poverty and empowerment, psychology, public policy, research and statistics, and political and social rhetoric.
Panels, including a total of over 70 presentations, will be held in library rooms 2108, 2127, 2206, 3212, 2134, the Ellipse Gallery (next to the north side, second floor elevator), and the Table Mountain Reading Room (3110).
S4 is organized by the Social Science Research and Instructional Council, a Chancellor’s Office affinity group that was founded in 1971.
Event Schedule
• 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. – Session 1
• 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. – Session 2
• 2:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. – Session 3
• 3:45 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Awards and closing
Awards of $1,000 will be given for best undergraduate paper, best graduate paper, best use of quantitative data and best use of qualitative data. Runners-up will receive $200 awards.
The keynote speaker is UCLA professor Dr. Safiya Noble, who serves as the director of UCLA’s Center on Resilience and Digital Justice and its DataX Initiative. She is co-director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech and Power. In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her groundbreaking work on algorithmic discrimination.
Noble is a Fresno State alumna who graduated with a bachelor’s in sociology. In 2018, she was honored with Fresno State’s Top Dog Distinguished Alumna Award. She will speak on the role of social science in the age of AI in a fireside chat with Associated Students Inc. (ASI) President Camalah Saleh and ASI Vice President of External Affairs Danielle Vu. (Registration, now closed, is required to attend the luncheon.)
INFO: Dr. Amber Crowell (acrowell@mail.fresnostate.edu) or Dr. Lisa Bryant (lbryant@mail.fresnostate.edu).
