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Graduate Student Amelia (Qi) Li Wins IAPHS Poster Award
The following excerpt is from an article outlining Ohio State Sociology Graduate Student Amelia Li's recent accomplishment at an IAPHS Conference in October."Five Win Poster Awards at October…
Professor Cynthia Colen Publishes New Study
Read the following Ohio State University News Release about one of our Assistant Professors, Dr. Cynthia Colen! More money, education only makes discrimination worse for minoritiesStudy author…
Hollie Nyseth Brehm interviewed on NPR (WOSU)!
Dr. Nyseth Brehm was featured on local NPR affiliate WOSU for her research focused on the Rwanda genocide that started in 1994. Her interview can be streamed, and the the transcript is also…
Professor Cynthia Colen to Serve as IAPHS Treasurer
Cynthia Colen, Associate Professor of Sociology, was recently appointed as Treasurer of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science, serving from 2018-2020. Detailing Professor…

Lindsey Chamberlain named new Assistant Dean and Director of ASC Honors
Lindsey Joyce Chamberlain has been appointed assistant dean and directir of ASC Honors, effective September 1, 2017. Chamberlain currently serves as assistant director for University Honors and…

Department Chair Claudia Buchmann Elected to Sociological Research Association
Claudia Buchmann, professor and chair of the Sociology Department, was elected to the Sociological Research Association (SRA), an honors society of sociology scholars dedicated to the excellence…

Professor Chris Browning Publishes First Study Using Smartphone Data to Track where Youth Spend Time
Christopher Browning, professor of sociology, is lead author of the first study to use smartphone data to track a large, diverse sample of young people to determine where they spend their…

Professor Dana Haynie and Graduate Student Scott Duxbury Present Published Research at ASA Annual Meeting in Montreal
Recently, Professor Dana Haynie and Scott Duxbury conducted a study to investigate the network structure of an encrypted online drug distribution network, examining the web of connections between…

Kent Schwirian interviewed on WBNS 10 TV
On July 25, 2017, Professor Emertus Kent Schwirian was interviewed by Laura Bourchers on WBNS 10 TV about his research on vaccination resistance, "Vaccination and the Anti-vaxxers".
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