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.

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

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