According to a press release from Gov. Greg Abbot, First Lady Cecilia Abbott announced Jana Anderson from San Angelo received the Volunteer of the Year Award, and Brady's Katrina Huffman was awarded the AmeriCorps Legacy of Service Award.
Donald Boyd Shaw passed away at 5:28 pm on May 25, 2023 with his wife, Valerie, holding his hand. He was born in New Hampton, Iowa to Sherman Wayne Shaw
BU sociology department sponsors Anti-Racist Town Hall Gabby Banaag/Contributing Photographer The Asian Student Union (ASU) and the Binghamton Pan Asian Leaders Council (BPALC) were among the co-sponsors for the sociology department’s Anti-Racist Town Hall that was held on April 18. Co-sponsors include BSU, LASU, ASU, BPALC and GSEU, where racism at BU was discussed April 22, 2021 In an effort to address the recent racist incidents that have occurred on campus, Binghamton University’s sociology department sponsored an antiracist town hall on April 18. The event, which saw over 300 attendees over Zoom, was held in light of an incident that occurred during the first discussion class in Sociology 100: Social Change: Intro to Sociology. When a student in the course expressed racist and sexist remarks to the TA, an African American woman, the instructor of the course, Joshua Price, professor and chair of the sociology department, and Gladys Jiménez-Muñoz, associate professor and undergraduate director in the sociology department, both consulted with the TA for support and spent the following class periods discussing racism and racial discrimination.