UMass-Boston: Assistant/Associate Professor

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The Department of Gerontology in the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston seeks to fill one or more positions at the tenure-track advanced assistant or associate professor rank…

Jennie Brand’s work on community colleges is published in Sociological Science

Jennie E. Brand’s research on the community college effect has been picked up by the media, including Insider Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/10/13/essay-questions-free-community-college-policies Read the journal article:…

Recruiting a Fulltime Demographer

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Demographer The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc. (Claims Conference), an international non-profit organization headquartered in New York, was established in 1951 to negotiate a program of indemnification for material…

American Univ: Assistant Professor

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Job Opening – Department of Sociology, American University The Department of Sociology, College of Arts & Sciences, at American University (Washington, D.C.), invites applications for a tenure line appointment at the rank of Assistant…

Prof. Mark Kaplan featured on Daily Bruin

Prof. Mark Kaplan is one of the small number of suicidologists in the U.S. Currently, Prof. Kaplan is working on two different studies: One that examines the effects of the economic recession on suicide rates in the U.S. and another on alcohol-related…

Univ of Michigan: Assistant/Associate Professor

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The following new job listing has been posted in the ASA Job Bank and may be of interest to section members: Job ID: 10665 Institution: University of Michigan School of Public Health Department: Health Management and Policy Title: Assistant/Associate…

UCLA GSR Needed for College Access Program Evaluation

UCLA Graduate Student Researchers (GSR) Needed for College Access Program Evaluation The V-SOURCE Research Project seeks two GSRs to assist with data management, coding, cleaning, and analysis. These GSRs will report to researchers at the…

NY Times quotes Prof. Matthew Kahn regarding Climate Change

Prof. Matthew Kahn is quoted by the NY Times in "Portland Will Still Be Cool, but Anchorage May Be the Place to Be".

Professor Jennie Brand discussed her research on single mother employment outcomes. 

Being a single parent is tough; being an unemployed single parent is even tougher. In today's Academic Minute, the University of California at Los Angeles's Jennie Brand takes a look at the effects of job loss on single mothers. Brand is an…

Antonio Pedro Ramos is featured on NPR News

Antonio Pedro Ramos is featured on NPR News for  his work "The Poor Don't Always Benefit From Democracy, Mortality Rates Show". Listen Live at: http://www.wbur.org/npr/349756566/the-poor-don-t-always-benefit-from-democracy-mortality-rates-show Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/byron-williams/democracy-is-not-always-a_b_5881956.html?utm_hp_ref=impact&ir=Impact