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Peggy Watson, director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in SPCS, is quoted extensively in a Richmond Athletics article, Women’s Basketball Continues to Grow Partnership with Osher, about the growing partnership between the Osher Institute and the Spiders Women’s Basketball team.

Erik Nielson, professor and assistant chair of liberal arts, is quoted as an expert on the use of rap lyrics in criminal trials in the Rolling Stone article “New York Lawmakers Introducing Bill to Limit Rap Lyrics as Evidence in Criminal Trials.” Nielson and Andrea L. Dennis (Georgia Tech) are referenced as co-authors of Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America.

Ann Hodges, paralegal studies program chair and professor of law emerita, is interviewed in a CBS 6 News “Buddy Check” segment about her role in co-founding the nonprofit organization CancerLINC. Hodges and Phyllis Katz, adjunct professor of nonprofit studies and law, who are both breast cancer survivors, founded CancerLINC to connect cancer patients with legal, financial, and community resources.

Bob Spires, associate professor of education, has published a chapter in an edited collection titled Human Trafficking: Global History and Perspectives. Spires’ chapter is titled “Human Trafficking, Antitrafficking, and Contemporary Theory.” The collection is available for pre-order and will be released later this month (November 15).