http://sociology.ucdavis.edu daily 1 2007-07-03T22:49:15Z http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/graduate-program/news/professor-natalia-deeb-sossa-and-eric-nelson-nominated-for-teaching-award Professor Natalia Deeb-Sossa and Eric Nelson have been nominated as finalists for the 7th annual Excellence in Education award in the College of Letters of Science. No publisher jiwung 2009-07-09T17:05:09Z News Item http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/graduate-program/news/graduate-students-present-at-paa-2009 Four sociology graduate students – Cassie Hartzog, Dan Herda, Robin Pleau and Jesse Rude – recently presented their research at the 2009 meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) in Detroit, Michigan. This is the most successful showing of our students at PAA to date. They presented in regular paper sessions and poster sessions, received a lot of interest and positive feedback from discussants and session participants, and were even the subject of a Wall Street Journal blog entry. No publisher jiwung 2009-07-09T17:04:07Z News Item http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/graduate-program/news/jennifer-dunn-received-the-inaugural-midwest-sociological-society-early-career-scholarship-award-in-march-2008 No publisher jiwung Alumni 2008-12-17T20:45:40Z News Item http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/graduate-program/news/teresa-casey-and-bill-mccarthys-paper-love-sex-and-crime-adolescent-romantic-relationships-and-offending-published-in-the-american-sociological-review Teresa Casey and Bill McCarthy's paper, Love, Sex and Crime: Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Offending, was recently published in the American Sociological Review (ASR) and was highlighted in the ASA December newsletter's Hot Off the Press: Journal Highlights section and on the ASR homepage. No publisher jiwung Grants 2008-12-17T22:54:12Z News Item http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/graduate-program/news/eric-nelson-will-receive-the-kenny-joseph-award-on-november-22 Eric Nelson will receive the award from the Peace Officer's Research Association of California on November 22 2008. The "Kenny Joseph" award is given to an individual who has made a substantial contribution to the advancement of police welfare in the last year. Earlier this year Eric was requested by State Assembly Majority Speaker Karen Bass to research Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in police officers and firefighters in order to quantify the extent of the problem, and the statistical liklihood that MRSA infections are work related. Eric testified five times before California Senate and Assembly committees, leading to passage of AB2754 which GovernorSchwarzenegger signed into law recently. The findings will be submitted for publication shortly. No publisher darkwolf 2008-11-24T22:51:33Z News Item http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/graduate-program/news/transnational-legal-action-global-business-human-rights-and-the-free-burma-movement-by-john-dale Forthcoming No publisher jiwung Alumni 2008-11-19T16:46:54Z News Item http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/graduate-program/news/raoul-lievanos-awarded-two-research-fellowships Raoul Liévanos has been awarded a UC Community Forestry and Environmental Research Partnerships (CFERP) Predissertation Fellowship from the Ford Foundation and the UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources in the amount of $2,000 for summer 2008. CFERP fellowships are highly competitive and open to graduate and undergraduate students from all over the U.S. The program goals are (1) to develop good participatory research skills in practitioners, (2) to nurture a new generation of scholars committed to engaging constructively with communities, and (3) to build community capacity to steward natural resources and have a voice in their own affairs. This predissertation fellowship will allow Liévanos to explore potential field sites for future research and will aid him as the current lead field researcher and project manager for the “Environmental Justice Coalition for Water Delta Health Study.” Funded additionally by the Rose Foundation and the UC Davis Environmental Justice Project, this project seeks to identify and assess the full range of environmental risks and concerns to human health resulting from poor water quality in the Delta, and sharing this information with participating communities, the broader public, and policy-makers in the Delta Vision Strategic Planning process. No publisher darkwolf Grants 2008-11-18T20:37:09Z News Item