- • Keith Maskus – International Development Program
- • Krister Andersson – Center for Governance of Natural Resources
New Program and Center Directors
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Congratulations on New Jobs!
- • Laurie Hawkins – postdoc, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory
- • Liz Lawrence – postdoc, Carolina Population Center, UNC
- • Gisella Kagy – Assistant Professor of Economics, Vassar College
- • Ben Domingue – Assistant Professor, Stanford University
New Faces at IBS
- • Joel Colvin – Administrative Officer
- • David Pyrooz – Problem Behavior, Sociology Department faculty
- • Jessica Green – CSPV Dissemination of LifeSkills project
- • Nicole Pasminski – CSPV Dissemination of LifeSkills project
- • Brittany Weeks – CSPV Dissemination of LifeSkills project
Upcoming Book Publications
- • Dick Jessor – Contract with Springer for 3 volume collected works
- • Kathleen Tierney – Book and review in Science
- • Mike Radelet – new book The Death Penalty in Colorado, 1859-2015
- • Andrei Rogers – Book on Multistate Analysis
New and Renewed Grants
- • Liesel Ritchie (2!)
- • Fernando Riosmena
- • Rick Rogers
- • Terry McCabe
- • Courtney Welton-Mitchel
- • Bruce Goldstein
- • David Pyrooz
- • Kathleen Tierney
- • Fred Pampel – Renewal of CUPC Grant
- • Kathleen Tierney – Renewal of the Hazards Center grant
Kudos — Fellowships and Student Grants
NSF GRFP :
- • Last year: 9 students completed the workshop and 4 received awards, including Bethany Riggles and Michael Burdis
- • This year: FIFTY are signed up for it!
Nnenia Campbell was awarded an ASA Minority Fellowship and Federal Alliance for Same Homes Social Science Scholarship
Jamie Vickery – Graduate Education Diversity Intern
Prizes and Awards
- • Sanyu Mojola – Book award: -ASA Gender Section award for Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS
- • Dick Jessor – Doctor of Science, honoris causa, awarded by Regents of the University of Colorado, June 2015
- • Jane Menken – Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award CU 2015
- • Stef Mollborn – Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award and Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award
- • Jason Boardman & Jani Little – VCR Prize for best data management plan
- • John O’Loughlin – Semenov-Tyan-Shansky gold medal for research on Russia. He’s the first foreigner in more than 100 years to win this award.
Suicide Methods Linked to Drugs
“The postmortem presence of opiates was associated with a 92 percent increase in the odds of suicide by firearm relative to the odds of suicide by hanging,” says study co-author Jason Boardman, director of the Health and Society Program at the Institute of Behavioral Science, and a professor in the Department of Sociology.
Read more at: College of Arts and Sciences
Social Factors Outweigh Genetics in Educational Attainment
A first-of-its-kind, nationally representative study of siblings supports previously published research on unrelated individuals that links specific genotypes to educational attainment among adults in their mid-20s to early 30s.
Read more at: CU News Center Social Sciences
