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Beattie Awarded Collaborative Grant

May 15, 2014
Irenee Beattie has been awarded a research grant from the Center for Research on Teaching Excellence at UC Merced for her collaborative research with Dave Noelle, UCM faculty member in Cognitive Science and Computer Science. The project is titled, “Improving Computing Education for Students...

Graduate Student Awarded Travel Grant for Data Workshop in Texas

May 12, 2014
Sociology graduate student Marcus Shaw received a mini-grant to attend a special workshop on life-course data at Texas A&M University for his research.  

Golash-Boza’s Collaborative Article Earns Honorable Mention

May 7, 2014
Tanya Golash-Boza’s article, “Latino Immigrant Men and the Deportation Crisis: A Gendered Racial Removal Program,” co-authored with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, was awarded an honorable mention for the Best Article Award from Latino/a Studies Section of the American Sociological...

Dodson’s Paper on Globalization Accepted at Social Problems

May 5, 2014
Professor Dodson has an article that is forthcoming at Social Problems, entitled “Globalization and Protest Expansion.”  

Sociology Graduate Student Awarded Mentoring Fellowship

April 21, 2014
Sociology Graduate Student Wendy Puquirre has received the Faculty Mentor Program Fellowship. Puquirre will work under the guidance of faculty mentor Irenee Beattie to develop her research on social capital and educational attainment.  

Incoming Professor Publishes Paper on Medical Sociology

April 21, 2014
Professor Laster published a co-authored paper, “The Use of Psychiatric Medication, Human Capital, and the Amplification of Mistrust ” in Sociological Spectrum (with C. Andre ́ Christie-Mizell, Helena E. Dagadu, and Stacye A. Blount ).    

Van Dyke Publishes Edited Book on the Tea Party

April 12, 2014
Nella Van Dyke has published an edited book (with David Meyer of UC Irvine) entitled, Understanding the Tea Party Movement (London: Ashgate). The volume includes contributions from social movement scholars analyzing the rapid rise of one of the most influential political groups in the United States...

Sociology Graduate Student Awarded Prestigious Fellowship

April 7, 2014
Violet Barton has been awarded the Eugene Cota-Robles (ECR) Graduate Student Fellowship  

Valdez Awarded National Science Foundation Seed Funding

March 12, 2014
Zulema Valdez, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Merced, and Nancy Plankey Videla, Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University, have been awarded an ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Grant (2014–2016) for their project, “The Effects of Legal Status...

Beattie Publishes Article on Educational Tracking and Life Transitions

March 3, 2014
Irenee Beattie’s article, “Tracking Women’s Transitions to Adulthood: Race, Curricular Tracking, and Young Adult Outcomes” is forthcoming in the interdisciplinary journal Youth & Society.  

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