Congratulations Anita on your VA Postdoctoral Fellowship!

Anita Yuan has accepted a VA Associated Health Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Veteran's Affairs of Greater Los Angeles HSR&D Center of Excellence for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior. Anita plans to begin her two-year fellowship…

Congratulations! Prof. Sweeney to serve on PAA Board of Directors.

Prof. Megan Sweeney was recently elected to a three-year term on the Population Association of America’s Board of Directors (2012-14). She'll be joining two other CCPR affiliates currently on the PAA Board: Judith Seltzer and Patrick Heuveline. Full…

NY TIMES: Prof. Chandra Ford speaks on Race Gap and HIV

Prof. Chandra Ford speaks on "How can public health officials fight the spread of H.I.V. among young gay black men?" on the NY Times. Full Article: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/08/10/fighting-hiv-among-young-black-gay-men/empowering-black-leaders-to-fight-hiv

Congratulations to Prof. Jennie Brand

Prof. Jennie Brand's was a co-winner of the article award of the new ASA section's Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility. She won for Jennie Brand and Yu Xie (2010), for "Who Benefits Most from College? Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous…

Tara McKay received an honorable mention for the Martin Levine Dissertation Award

Tara McKay received an honorable mention (and $500 cash award) for the Martin Levine Dissertation Award, administered by the ASA Sexualities Section. Tara will receive the award at the upcoming ASA meeting in Las Vegas on Monday evening at…

Congratulations to Prof. Jennie Brand!

Prof. Jennie Brand will serve on the editorial board for the American Sociological Review starting in 2012. In addition, her article "Who Benefits Most from College?: Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher…

Congratulations to Chinyere Osuji!

Chinyere Osuji has received the James E. Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award from ASA's Racial and Ethnic Minorities section. This singular award is for her paper "Boundary Blurring?: Black-White Couples and the Policing of Racial Boundaries…

Congratulations to Yana Kucheva!

Yana Kucheva recently received two competitive awards. She received a Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Research Grant, specifically the Eli Ginzberg Award for projects devoted to urban health and welfare problems. This is for a chapter…

Prof. Vickie Mays appointed to National Committee on Vital Health Statistics

CCPR Faculty Affiliate Vickie Mays, Professor of Psychology and Health Services, has been appointed to the House of Representatives seat on the 18-member National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, an advisory panel to Secretary of Health…

Gary Gates named in the 2010 Out 100 Portfolio

Gary Gates (http://out.com/Out100/slideshow.asp?slideshow_title=Out100&theID=150) is an academic pioneer. His doctoral dissertation included the first significant research study using U.S. census data to explore characteristics of same-sex…