Empowering local governments with forestry decisions can help combat deforestation, but is most effective when local users are actively engaging with their representatives, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder-led study.
University of Colorado professor Keith Maskus has been named the chief economist for the the U.S. Department of State. Keith is a professor of distinction in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Director of the Program on International Development at IBS. He is beginning a two-year appointment in Washington, D.C., this month.
David Pyrooz, assistant professor of sociology at CU Boulder, has won the 2016 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of criminology by someone who has received his or her graduate degree within five years.
The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado Boulder has received a five-year $5.9 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to expand its youth violence prevention work in two Denver neighborhoods.
Robbee Wedow, Jason Boardman, and colleagues have published an article on gender, genetics, and weight identity in Social Science & Medicine. Their research findings are also discussed in detail in CU Boulder Today.
Sanyu Mojola received the “Distinguished Scholarly Book Award” from the American Sociological Association at the August 20-23 meeting in Seattle. This is a tremendous honor, presented annually for the ASA member’s best single book published in the two calendar years preceding the award year. Sanyu joins a distinguished and very impressive list of scholarly awardees. The title which earned this much-deserved award is Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS by Sanyu A. Mojola (University of California Press, 2014).
Aaron Malone has been awarded a Community Based Research Graduate Fellowship through CU Engage. The program supports a cohort of graduate students doing collaborative research with community partners for mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.
Liam Downey received the Environment and Technology Section’s Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award at the ASA annual meeting in Seattle August 20-23rd for his book Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment. Senior environmental sociology colleagues Liam talked with at the meetings described Liam’s book as making a critically important contribution to environmental sociology, as providing a
David Pyrooz was recently quoted in the news. He spoke with a reporter from the Houston Chronicle about the Texas prison system’s gang renouncement program. He was also interviewed as part of NPR’s “code switch” podcast about how crime rates have changed in the aftermath of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, MO.
The National Science Foundation this month awarded $300,000 over three years to CU-Boulder to create the Rocky Mountain Research Data Center (RMRDC), which will be housed in the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS). The center joins a relatively exclusive group of 19 others across the U.S. and is expected to be a boon for researchers and raise the profile of CU-Boulder to prospective faculty and graduate students.
