- • Keith Maskus – International Development Program
- • Krister Andersson – Center for Governance of Natural Resources
New Program and Center Directors
News
All news items, blog posts, and feature stories.
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
Kathleen Tierney and Lori Hunter Co-Author Chapter on Climate Change
Kathleen Tierney and Lori Hunter are authors of a key chapter on adaptation to climate change in a new book on climage change and society. Their chapter is: Chapter 6: Adaptation to Climate Change. JoAnn Carmin, Kathleen Tierney, Eric Chu, Lori M. Hunter, J. Timmons Roberts, and Linda Shi
There’s a hashtag for the book — #ClimateandSociety
John O’Loughlin Recieves Award from Russian Geographical Society
John O'Loughlin was presented the highest research award of the Russian Geographical Society. The award was presented to Johno by Minister of Defense Shoigu, president of the Society. Below is a link to a youtube of the presentation.
