Congrats to Danielle Wondra!

Danielle Wondra won an outstanding poster award for her recent presentation at the Population Association of America (PAA) annual meetings, held last week in New Orleans. Danielle’s poster was titled “Understanding Men’s Fertility Preferences…

Lifetime Achievement Award: Population Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers

At the recent Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Los Angeles, the Population Specialty Group gave the Lifetime Achievement Award to Bill Clark in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of population geography…

Congratulations, Hsin-Chieh Chang!

On March 30, 2013, Hsin-Chieh Chang received the Early Stage Family Scholar Award given by the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Family (RC06/CFR) and the Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. …

Congrats to Peter Catron!

Peter Catron’s comment on Immigrant Unionization through the Great Recession has just been published in the April 2013 issue of American Sociological Review (http://asr.sagepub.com/content/78/2/315.abstract). Congratulations, Peter!

Congrats to Stephanie D’Souza!

Please join us in congratulating Stephanie D'Souza for being given honorable mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! A select few students with outstanding applications are given such honors each year. Congrats Stephanie!

CNN: The real ‘modern family’ in America-Gary Gates

Gary Gates has CNN opinion piece on gay marriage, drawing on census data for argument. Full article:  The_real_modern_family_in_America

Congratulations, Esther Friedman!

Recent UCLA alum Esther Friedman has accepted a job as Associate Social Scientist at RAND. She will start at RAND’s Santa Monica office in September. Congratulations Esther!!

Washington Post quotes Gary Gates

Gary Gates is featured in "Demographic research on lesbians and gays emerges from shadows" where he provides insight about LBGT demographics and its political impacts. Full Article: Demographic research on ..

Congratulations Tara McKay!!

Congratulations Tara!! Tara McKay will be joining the 2013-2015 cohort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at the UC Berkeley / UC San Francisco site. More information about this highly prestigious…

Congrats to Professor Sweeney!

Congratulations to Professor Megan Sweeney! She won the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. We knew that she was a amazing teacher but it is good to have some much deserved external appreciation as well. This is the second year in a row that…