Science Advances Abstract: How are children’s fluoride exposures associated with cognitive test performance in adolescence and midlife? Whereas most prior research has estimated effects of exposure to extremely high levels of fluoride, we consider exposure …
Year: 2025
Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarker Concentrations Across Race and Ethnicity Groups in Middle-Aged Adults by Adam M. Brickman, Chandra Muller, John Robert Warren, Eric Grodsky, Soobin Kim, Michael J. Culbertson, Bharat Thyagarajan, and Jennifer J. Manly (2025)
JAMA Network Open Abstract: Importance The incidence and prevalence of clinical Alzheimer disease (AD) are higher among Black and Latinx older adults than among White older adults. Past studies that compared plasma AD biomarker concentrations …
Gender Differences in Associations Between Spousal Cognitive Decline and Marital Strain: Evidence from the US Older Couples by Meiyi Li, Yiang Li, and Michal Engelman (2025)
Social Science & Medicine Abstract: Despite extensive research demonstrating how marriage affects health, less is known about how health changes impact marriages, particularly when one spouse’s health declines. This study extends the stress process model …
Jane Ahn selected as a TA Fellow
Jane Ahn has been selected as a Writing-Across-the-Curriculum TA Fellow for her work as a Communication-B instructor, mentoring over 120 new communication assistants in courses from various disciplines across campus. Her breakout session, “Reverse Outlining: …
Inequality and Stratification in the Transitions from Socialism by Ted Gerber and Michael Zaslavsky (2025)
Book chapter in Oxford Handbook of Social Stratification Abstract: The transitions from state socialism to market economies in the late twentieth century represented a profound transformation in virtually all aspects of the economic and social …
Steps toward an Ecology of Markets: Markets as Evolving Computational Algorithms by James Rosenberg (2025)
Sociological Theory Abstract: Approaches to the study of markets in economic sociology have been converging with an approach to markets found in the field of evolutionary economics. In this view, markets are treated as sets …
Danielle Schmidt receives 2025 CIAS Graduate Student Summer Research Mini-Grant
Danielle Schmidt received a 2025 Graduate Student Summer Research Mini-Grant from the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS). She interviewed ranchers in northeastern Montana for her study on agricultural land transitioning to conservation reserves. Danielle …
How Does Life Course Exposure to Contextual Disadvantage Accelerate Biological Aging? The Role of Psychological Symptoms by Christina Kamis, Wei Xu, Amy Schultz, Joseph Clark, Michal Engelman, and Kristen Malecki (2025)
The Journals of Gerontology Series B Abstract: Objectives Recent research has found that life course exposure to contextual socioeconomic disadvantage may accelerate biological aging, providing key insight into an upstream driver of health disparities. However, …
Bijoyetri Samaddar receives Midwest Sociological Society scholarship
Bijoyetri Samaddar received a scholarship from the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) for her research into knowledge production in policy-oriented organizations. The next MSS Annual Meeting will be March 26-29, 2026 in St. Louis, MO.
“Nobody’s Children”: The Racial History of Parental Rights Law in Foster Care by Michaela Simmons (2025)
Gender & Society Abstract: While scholars show that child protection is tied to the regulation of motherhood, we know little about how mothers of color were treated in early child welfare history. To address this …