Friday News, June 20, 2023

• Congrats to Ashley Wright for accepting the position as Statistician for Columbus City Schools. 
• Nico Pinchak received the Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Student Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology Division of Communities and Place and the American Sociological Association Animals and Society Section Jane Goodall Graduate Student Article Award. The awards are for his article titled “Paws on the Street: Neighborhood-level Concentration of Households with Dogs and Urban Crime" published in Social Forces, and co-authored with Chris Browning, Beth Boettner, Jake Tarrence, and Kate Calder. 
• Anthony Johnson was selected as a 2023-24 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. This program “provide[s] funding and professional development to early-career researchers whose projects address critical issues in the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education, at the national and international levels.” 
• Ph.D. candidate Anna Church was awarded a Critical Difference for Women Research Grant from The Women’s Place to help fund her dissertation work on gestational diabetes. 
• Anna Church, along with John Casterline and colleagues with the Institute for Population Research and College of Public Health, had their article, “Traditional supports and contemporary disrupters of high fertility desires in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review” published in Reproductive Health. 
• Graduate student Tori Coan assisted on a joint working paper published by the Washington Center for Economic Progress and Political Economic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The paper documents the fragmented state of data infrastructure related to caregiving and care provision in the United States. Tori's contributions include commentary on data challenges to identifying sub-national variation in care policies, and how these data challenges help to maintain status quo privatized social organizations of care, and the inequalities which result from them. 
• Drake Institute affiliate and lecturer in our department Danielle V. Schoon, PhD, recently participated in the inaugural offering of the Office of Academic Enrichment’s Course Transformation Learning Community Grant ($2500) in Spring 2023, where she received support for developing a syllabus for TURK3797 Virtual Education Abroad in Istanbul. The course was recently approved for the GE Theme in Citizenship for a Just and Diverse World, and this fall, Schoon will submit it for approval as a High Impact Education Away 4-credit course.
• Professor Chris Knoester was featured in WalletHub's recent article about Best States for Working Dads.