Laura Wherry is featured in UCLA Newsroom

Laura Wherry is featured in an article that discusses how the expansion of Medicaid has boosted insurance coverage to low income adults. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/medicaid-expansion-significantly-boosts-insurance-coverage-among-low-income-adults

Vilma Ortiz receives the UCLA Student Development Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Award

Professor Vilma Ortiz has been selected as this year’s Student Development Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Award recipient.  Presented each year by the Academic Senate’s Committee on Diversity and Equal Opportunity (CODEO), the award…

Robert Mare Receives the 2016 Robert M. Hauser Distinguished Scholar Award

Robert Mare is this year’s winner of the Robert M. Hauser Distinguished Scholar award from the ASA section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility. The award will be presented at the IPM reception at the ASA meetings.

Robert Mare featured in the Atlantic

Robert Mare is quoted in an article regarding how couples who marry across classes have unique tensions: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/tension-couples-marry-across-classes/476742/?utm_source=SFFB

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CCPR @ PAA 2016 Meeting Washington, D.C.

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Looking to catch your favorite CCPR/UCLA affiliate at PAA Washington D.C.  this week? Here is a link and program list of CCPR @ PAA Enjoy the conference! https://ucla.app.box.com/CCPRatPAA2016  

Chris Dunkel-Schetter’s research is feautured in the UCLA Newsroom

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Chris Dunkel-Schetter's research is feautured in the UCLA Newsroom http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/women-with-impaired-stress-hormone-before-pregnancy-have-lower-birthweight-babies  

Rob Mare featured in the New York Times

Robert Mare's research on assortative mating and inequality was cited this past weekend in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/upshot/rise-in-marriages-of-equals-and-in-division-by-class.html

Robert Mare featured in NY Times

Professor Robert Mare highlights the fact that the sharp increase in assortative marriage mirrors income inequality in the United States. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/upshot/rise-in-marriages-of-equals-and-in-division-by-class.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0

Leonardo Bursztyn receives prestigious award

Leonardo Bursztyn received a 2016 Sloan Fellowship, an award given to early career scholars “whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders,” from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/3-ucla-faculty-members-earn-2016-sloan-fellowships