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Latest News
Fall 2009
Summer 2009
- Sociology Department Dialogue scheduled on:
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Social Science Plaza B, Room 1208
- Rubén Rumbaut is quoted in Prensa Latina on September 19, 2009.
- Congratulations to Andrew Penner on his Russell Sage Foundation Award.
- Congratulations to Georgiana Bostean and Jasmine Kerrissey for being awarded NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants.
- Matt Huffman and Philip Cohen won the 2009 Distinguished Article Award from the ASA Sex & Gender section.
- Congratulations to sociology graduate students selected for national and international summer training.
- Zoya Gubernskaya selected to participate in a European Science Foundation workshop on multi-level modelling in Vienna
- Brian Gillespie and Renee Ellis selected for National Longitudinal Survey summer workshops in Columbus, Ohio
- Kari Pestolesi, a Sociology undergrad, named the Sports Imports/AVCA National Player of the Week on September 1, 2009.
- Judy Treas is quoted in New York Times on August 30, 2009.
- David Meyer is quoted in New York Times,
How Much Do Protests Matter? A Freakonomics Quorum, on
August 26, 2009.
- Rubén Rumbaut is quoted in Immigration Daily on August 24, 2009.
- David Meyer is quoted in MSNBC online on August 6, 2009.
- UCI sociologists travel to San Francisco for annual American Sociological Association meeting to take on key leadership positions and present research findings that range from how career prioritization decisions affect men and women differently to a look at how personal networks influence drug use.
- Wang Feng is quoted in Time Magazine on July 27, 2009.
- Study by Cynthia Feliciano on Inequality and education is featured on SocSci News on July 20, 2009.
- Congratulations to Miruna Petrescu-Prahova on her new position as a Research Associate in the Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
- Stanley Bailey has been promoted to Associate Professor.
- Ruben Rumbaut is featured in Reason Online on July 6, 2009.
- High-jump champ and Sociology undergrad Lauren Collins ends a record-setting season on track for the Olympics.
- David Snow is elected vice president-elect of American Sociological Association.
- A study by Judith Treas is featured in U.S. News & World Report and New York Daily News on June 25, 2009.
- Cynthia Feliciano has been promoted to Associate Professor.
- Yang Su is qutoed in the OC Register on June 5, 2009.
Spring 2009
- Carla Rodriguez-Gonzalez, an undergraduate Sociology major, is one of the 2009 Commencement Speakers.
- Congratulations to Katie Dingeman and Emma Spiro for winning Honorable Mentions in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship competition.
- Congratulations to Georgiana Bostean and Raul Perez for receiving dissertation fellowship awards for 2009-10!
- A report by Roberto Gonzales is featured on CNN Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Also featured in 12 additional news outlets:
- -Chronicle of Higher Education, April 22, 2009
- La Opinion, April 22, 2009
- Inside Higher Ed, April 22, 2009
- LA Times, April 22, 2009
- U.S. News and World Report, April 22, 2009
- Diverse Education, April 22, 2009
- Education Week, April 22, 2009
- KWTX Channel 10 News (Texas), April 21, 2009 (video available)
- USA Today, April 21, 2009
- Ponte Al Dia (Philadelphia), April 21, 2009
- Latin American Herald Tribune, April 21, 2009
- Physorg.com, April 21, 2009
- A study by Cynthia Feliciano and Belinda Robnett is featured in the Los Angeles Times on April 26, 2009. The story also appears in two additional media outlets:
- -Desert Sun, April 22, 2009
- News America Media, April 24, 2009
- Study by Cynthia Feliciano is featured on the Social Science News on April 21, 2009.
- Judith Treas is featured in the Capital Times on April 20, 2009.
- Research conducted by Rubén Rumbaut is featured in the New York Times on April 18, 2009. The story also appears in nine additional media sources.
- Wang Feng is featured in the The Philadelphia Bulletin on April 15, 2009.
- Jennifer Lee is quoted in the Herald News on March 29, 2009.
- Frank D. Bean has received a six-year grant to study and develop new methods for collecting and reporting data on the unauthorized population living in America. The study is funded by the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
- Judith Treas publishes "Immigration in an Aging Society." This Winter 2009 issue of Generations is "a long overdue look at the demographic revolution of our time" co-edited with UCLA's Fernando Torres-Gil.
Winter 2009
- Nathanael Matthiesen is quoted in Advisors News on March 17, 2009.
- The research findings of Rubén Rumbaut are
highlighted in Education Week on March 16, 2009.
- A study by Rubén Rumbaut is featured in the Tampa Tribune on March 1, 2009.
- Rubén Rumbaut was awarded a Russell Sage Foundation book grant.
- CSD and Department of Sociology kicked off the inaugural annual Robin M. Williams, Jr. Lecture series established to honor the research and teaching of Robin M. Williams.
- Rubén Rumbaut is quoted in the Examiner on January 28, 2009.
- A study by Andrew Penner is featured in the Delaware Online on January 21, 2009.
- Congratulations to James Bany, Bobby Chen, Roberto Gonzalez, Goldie Komaie, Ben Lind, Charles Morgan, Michelle Peria, Miruna Petrescu-Prahova, and James Stobaugh, all of whom have had articles recently accepted for publication or published:
- David A. Snow, James A. Bany, Michelle Peria, and James E. Stobaugh, "A Team Field Study of the Appeal of Megachurches: Framing, Identifying, and Solving Personal Issues" Ethnography, June 2008.
- Polletta, Francesca, Pang Ching Bobby Chen, and Christopher Anderson, "Is Information Good for Deliberation? Link-Posting in an Online Forum."
Journal of Public Deliberation 5, 2009.
- Rubén G. Rumbaut, Roberto G. Gonzales, Golnaz Komaie, y Charlie V. Morgan, "Inmigración, encarcelamiento y delincuencia en los Estados Unidos de
América: La percepción pública frente a la evidencia empírica." Pp.
127-156 in Alfonso Serrano Maíllo y José Luis Guzmán Dálbora, eds., *Procesos de Infracción de Normas y de Reacción a la Infracción de Normas:
Dos Tradiciones Criminológicas. * Madrid, Spain: Editorial Dykinson, S.L., 2008.
- Cynthia Feliciano, Belinda Robnett, and Golnaz Komaie. 2009. "Gendered Racial Exclusion Among White Internet Daters." Social Science Research 38: 39-54.
- Lind, Benjamin E., Miguel Tirado, Carter T. Butts, and Miruna Petrescu-Prahova, "Brokerage roles in disaster response: organizational mediation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina." International Journal of Emergency Management 5 (1/2), 2008.
- Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, Sheera Joy Olasky, and James Stobaugh, "All the Movements Fit to Print: Who, What, When, Where, Why SMO Families Appeared in the *New York Times* in the Twentieth Century." American Sociological Review, forthcoming.
- Congratulations to Leah Ruppanner for receiving the Frank Lynch Fellowship for Winter 2009!
- Andrew Penner's study on how social status shapes ethnicity is featured on the Social Science News on January 5th, 2009.
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