Yool Choi has received an American Educational Research Association (AERA) dissertation grant. More information about this program is available at: http://www.aera.net/ProfessionalOpportunitiesFunding/FundingOpportunities/AERAGrantsProgram/DissertationGrants/tabid/12812/Default.aspx

Lianna Hartmour has won a Greater Good Science Center Gratitude Dissertation Award. More information about this UC Berkeley-based program can be found at http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/expandinggratitude/dissertation_research_awards.

Recent UCLA Ph.D. Jaeeun Kim has [...]

Annie Fehrenbacher has just won the Elizabeth Blackwell, MD Award from the Center for the Study of Women for her paper ?The Evolution of a Gendered Politics of Trauma: Challenging the Depiction of Rape: A Fate Worse Than Death?

Great Work Annie!

Danielle Wondra won an outstanding poster award for her recent presentation at the Population Association of America (PAA) annual meetings, held last week in New Orleans.

Danielle’s poster was titled “Understanding Men’s Fertility Preferences and Intentions: The Effects of Race, Class and Sexuality.”

Congratulations Danielle!

At the recent Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Los Angeles, the Population Specialty Group gave the Lifetime Achievement Award to Bill Clark in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of population geography though research, teaching, professional services, and mentoring.

Congratulations, Bill!

On March 30, 2013, Hsin-Chieh Chang received the Early Stage Family Scholar Award given by the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Family (RC06/CFR) and the Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica in Taiwan.  The award was given at the 2013 conference on Demographic and Institutional Change in Global Families held in Taiwan from March [...]

Peter Catron’s comment on Immigrant Unionization through the Great Recession has just been published in the April 2013 issue of American Sociological Review (http://asr.sagepub.com/content/78/2/315.abstract).

Congratulations, Peter!

Please join us in congratulating Stephanie D’Souza for being given honorable mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! A select few students with outstanding applications are given such honors each year. Congrats Stephanie!

Recent UCLA alum Esther Friedman has accepted a job as Associate Social Scientist at RAND. She will start at RAND’s Santa Monica office in September.

Congratulations Esther!!