Chloe Rosenstock received an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition this year. In her study,”‘Perceiving the Poor:’ Elite Parental Beliefs and Their Decision-Making Process,” she asks two main questions: 1) …
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Molly Clark-Barol received the Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Graduate Award
Molly Clark-Barol was selected as the recipient of the Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Graduate Award from the Morgridge Center for Public Service! The Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Graduate Student Award acknowledges a graduate student who …
Jane Ahn wins Midwest Sociological Society Scholarship Award
Congratulations to Jane Ahn for her Midwest Sociological Society Scholarship Award! This award goes to help support Jane’s thesis, which focuses on how religion and science, as cultural actors, shape belief in climate change.
Lyn Macgregor received Mid-Career Advising Award
Congratulations to Lyn Macgregor for being chosen as this year’s College of Letters & Science Mid-Career Advising Award recipient! Persons honored with an L&S Academic Advising award are exceptional advisors. Recipients have demonstrated exemplary performance …
Rebecca Laurent named a Lead Teaching Mentor
Congratulations to Rebecca Laurent for being named a Lead Teaching Mentor by the College of Letters & Sciences! Lead Teaching Mentors have served as Teaching Mentors more than once and take on an additional leadership …
Danielle Schmidt received dissertation award from the Rural Sociological Association
Congratulations to Danielle Schmidt for winning a highly competitive Rural Sociological Society Dissertation Research Award! This award is “designed to stimulate research that will help develop the careers of future rural sociologists and support the …
Katherine Jensen received a Vilas Associate’s Award
Congratulations to Katherine Jensen, who has been selected to receive a Vilas Associate’s Award from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research! This award recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and …
Ted Gerber quoted in Fox 47 article on Russia
“I think the current administration has decided to embrace the Russian side of this conflict.” That’s part of the quote that Ted Gerber gave for Fox 47’s article, “A ‘shift in diplomatic tone’: U.S. votes …
Real Utopias book wins the 2025 William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize
The book Democratizing the Corporation: The Bicameral Firm and Beyond has been awarded the 2025 William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize. Joel Rogers is one of the book’s editors, along with Isabelle …
New York Times quotes Max Besbris about wildfire recovery in Los Angeles
How do you build back after disaster, and how does wealth impact the decisions made and the speed of rebuilding? Max Besbris was quoted in a New York Times article about the Los Angeles wildfires …