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Wall Street Journal article quotes Dr. Zhenchao Qian
Kirsten Grind's article, Mother, Can You Spare a Room? in the Weekend Investor section of the May 4/5, 2013 Wall Street Journal discussing the rise in the number of young adults returning home to…

Justin Schupp received high honor.
Justin Schupp, Sociology graduate student won one of the 10 Graduate Associate Teaching Awards for 2013. Justin will be honored at the 41st annual Graduate School Spring Awards Reception on…

Sociology Undergrads are Denman Honorees
Three Sociology undergraduate students, Mallorey Tidd, Gregory Lavins, and Madelaine Keim received an honorable mention at the Denman for their poster, "The Green Brewing Movement: Moral…

Lora Phillips Lassus - Congratulations!
Lora Lassus, a first year Sociology graduate student has been awarded a three year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Supporting her application were Professors…

MSNBC Interview with Claudia Buchmann, Ph.D.
See Professor Buchmann's March 18, 2013 interview in its entirety at http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-cycle/51230216#51230216

Time quotes Prof. Hui Zheng’s Study
Time quoted Zheng’s recent study published in Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Co-author of this study is Patricia Thomas, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Professor Andrew Martin receives honor!
Andrew Martin, Associate Professor of Sociology has been selected as the recipient of the 2012-13 Honors Faculty Service Award. He is being recognized for excellence in honors advising,…

Profs. Dwyer, Hodson, McCloud study Cited by the Chronicle of Higher Education
A new study revealing that student loans provide more help to women than they do for men in encouraging graduation from college appears in the February 2013 issue of Gender & Society…

New Book by Thomas A. DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann
Now available is the new book, THE RISE OF WOMEN: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What it Means for American Schools by Thomas A. DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann. Russell Sage Foundation at…