Egypt might be a long way from Flagler College, but Nicole Howlett will only have to travel to Chicago in order to study about it.

The spring 2011 graduate has been awarded a fellowship into the Egyptology program at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Flagler Associate Professor of Sociology Casey Welch talks about working at a fast food chain to research corporate control and ‘cheerful robots’

Don’t dally in the bathroom. That’s part of what Casey Welch, an associate professor of sociology at Flagler, learned a few years back when he went to work at a national fast food chain. He won’t name the burger-flipping joint where he took a minimum-wage job to study how chains exert total control over workers. Even bathroom breaks are timed!

Students thrive on service learning trip to the jungles of Ecuador

Ten Flagler students spent part of April pushed from their comfort zones when they hopped on a plane to Quito, Ecuador. They lived without clocks, quenched their thirst with licorice-flavored water, slept with monstrous insects and ate yucca for breakfast, lunch and dinner.