Congratulations to Yana Kucheva!

Congratulations! Yana Kucheva has accepted a position as a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. Congratulations Yana on this exciting news!

Congratulations to Gary J. Gates

Congratulations to Gary J. Gates to be appointed to the Census Scientific Advisory Committee!! Congratulations Gary!

Congratulations to Kate Choi

Congratulations to our recent alum Kate Choi has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in the sociology department at University of Western Ontario. Congratulations Kate!!

Congratulations to Professor Mignon Moore

Congratulations to Mignon Moore, who has won the UCLA Academic Senate and Office of Instructional Development Distinguished Teaching Award for Undergraduate Mentorship!

Congratulations to Leah Boustan on Winning Sloan Research Fellowship!!!

The full list of winners is at http://www.sloan.org/fellowships/page/21

Gary Gates appointed to BLS Data Users Advisory Committee

Congratulations to Dr. Gary Gates who has been appointed as a member of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Data Users Advisory Committee!

Congratulations to Paul Chung, M.D., M.S.!

Dear Colleagues: Please join me in congratulating Paul Chung, M.D., M.S., on his new appointment as: Chief, Division of General Pediatrics Department of Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles The…

Congrats to Tara McKay!

Tara McKay has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation for her project titled  “The Local Implementation of Global AIDS Prevention Policies.”

William Clark comments on “Is California Too Big?”

Sure—and why stop at two? Not that it’ll solve anything. About 60 percent of the countries that make up the United Nations are smaller than Los Angeles County, yet many of these nations would prefer to split themselves into even smaller…