Research and Awards

Grants

  • Frank Bean (Sociology) is a co-recipient of a $1.34 million NICHD grant to compile a new dataset and conduct research on the health of immigrants living in the United States.
  • Candice Odgers (Psychology) was named a W.T. Grant Scholar, an honor which includes $350,000 over five years to study Macro-to-Micro Contextual Triggers of Early Adolescent Substance Exposure.
  • Cynthia Feliciano (Sociology) and Leticia Oseguera (Education) received a $484,000 from UC All Campus Consortium for Diversity (ACCORD) for Young Adults in Poverty and Not on Track to Attain a Post-secondary Credential: A National Portrait.
  • Andrew Penner (Sociology) received a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to support his research on The Consequences of Racial Fluidity for Inequality in the United States.
  • Anne-Marie Conley (Education) is co-PI on two new NSF grants on youth outcomes examining motivation in math and science learning. A $1.9 million grant looks at the role of teachers’ motivation in promoting students’ motivation and achievement. The second $2 million project studies the influence of teachers on student achievement.
  • David Swanson (UCR Sociology) is co-investigator on Virtual Co-laboratory for Policy Analysis in Greater L.A., a $2.3 million (5 year) award from the UC Multicampus Research Program and Initiatives.

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Honors

  • Greg Duncan (Education) was elected to the National Academy of Education.
  • Marianne Bitler (Economics) has been appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Estimating Children Eligible for School Nutrition Programs using the ACS.
  • Andrew Penner (Sociology) was honored with the Dick Wolf Memorial Award by the International Association for Evaluation of Educational Achievement.
  • Christopher “Kitt” Carpenter (Business), newly promoted to Associate Professor, had “Proximity of Fast-Food Restaurants to Schools and Adolescent Obesity” (American Journal of Public Health 99:505-510) cited as the Most Influential Article on Childhood Obesity in 2008-09 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
  • Wang Feng (Sociology) with Yong Cai was honored at the IXXVI Meetings of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population for their poster, “Reproductive Consequences of China’s Great Famine, 1959-1961.”
  • Dean Baker (Medicine) is President-elect of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology and was honored with a Physicians of Excellence award by the Orange County Medical Association.
  • Susan Greenhalgh’s (Anthropology) book, Just One Child (University of California Press, 2008), garnered Honorable Mention, from the Society for Cultural Anthropology for the 2009 Gregory Bateson Book Prize.
  • David Snow (Sociology) was elected Vice-President of the American Sociological Association.
  • Matt Huffman (Sociology) was honored by the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association for an outstanding article, “Working for the Woman? Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap” (ASR 72: 681-704).

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Selected Publications

  • Manisha Shah (Economics) reports on “Nature’s experiment? Handedness and early childhood development” in the May 2009 issue of Demography.
  • John Hipp and George Tita  (Criminology) with Greenbaum report on “Drive-bys
    and Trade-ups: Examining the Directionality of the Crime and Residential
    Instability Relationship”  Social Forces  87: 1777-1812.
  • Judith Treas (Sociology) and Fernando Torres-Gil edited “Immigration in an Aging Society,” the Winter 2009 issue of Generations: The Journal of the American Society on Aging.  Cited by the New York Times, their work will be the focus of a one-day National Forum on Immigration in Chicago in March, 2010.
  • Tim Bruckner (Planning & Public Health) published “From paradox to disparity: trends in neonatal death in very low birth weight non-Hispanic black and white infants, 1989-2004” in Journal of Pediatrics October, 2009; “Infant mortality and diminished entelechy in three European countries” in Social Science and Medicine May 2009; and “Does deinstitutionalization increase suicide?” Health Services Research August 2009.
  • Marlon Boarnet (Planning) contributed to Driving and the Built Environment: The Effects of Compact Development on Motorized Travel, Energy Use and CO2 Emissions. National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, 2009.
  • Cynthia Feliciano (Sociology) published “Education and ethnic identity formation among children of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants” in Sociological Perspectives 2009:135-158.
  • Marianne Bitler (Economics) and Christopher “Kitt” Carpenter (Business) with Zavodny are publishing “Effects of venue-specific state clean indoor air laws on smoking-related outcomes” in Health Economics.
  • George Farkas (Education) presented his research, "Middle and high school
    skills, behaviors, attitudes, curriculum placement and their consequences,"
    at the Brookings Institution conference on Social Inequality and Educational Disadvantage in Washington D.C (to appear in a volume published by Brookings and the Russell Sage Foundation).

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