Imagine not only fi nishing a dis- sertation but winning a national prize for the best one. T at was the case for Brian Leech, an assistant history professor at Augustana Col- lege, Sioux Falls, S.D. Leech won $1,000 for writing the best 2013 doctoral dissertation in Western his- tory for “T e City T at Ate Itself: A Social and Environmental History of Open-Pit Mining in Butte, Mon- tana.” Given by Phi Alpha T eta, the national history honors society, and Westerners International, the award recognized Leech’s disserta- tion on how the Berkeley Pit, an open-pit copper mining site begun in 1951 and hailed as technologically advanced, fi lled with toxins and con- sumed whole neighborhoods.
As part of Global Vision Week, more than 500 students, faculty and community members at Grand View University, Des Moines, Iowa, learned about human traffi cking and took part in various activities “to bet- ter understand issues of contempo- rary slavery and child domestic ser- vitude, and how they occur in Iowa and the world,” according to a school
news release. Nana Derby, associate professor at Virginia State Univer- sity, Petersburg, delivered the Sept. 17 keynote address titled “Human Traffi cking: A Transnational Crime So Evil.”
Erin Keen-Rhinehart, a nueroscien- tist and assistant biology professor at Susquehanna University, Selins-
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