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Neale Chumbler

CURRENT POSITION: Dean, College of Health and Human Services, University of North Texas; Professor, Rehabilitation and Health Services DISSERTATION TITLE: "The effects of pre-professional and professional socialization and intergenerational solidarity on podiatric medical students' negative stereotypes and attitudes toward treating the elderly" GRADUATION YEAR: 1994

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Elaine A. Borawski

CURRENT POSITION: Angela Bowen Williamson Professor of Community Nutrition, Departments of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences and Nutrition, CWRU School of Medicine; Director, CWRU Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods DISSERTATION TITLE: "Predictors, components and sequelae of social integration of the aged within age-homogeneous environments" GRADUATION YEAR: 1992

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Katherine Abbott

CURRENT POSITION: Executive Director, Scripps Gerontology Center; Professor of Gerontology, Department of Sociology & Gerontology, Scripps Research Fellow, Miami University GRADUATION YEAR: 2005 DISSERTATION TITLE: "Blending Resources: Informal Networks and HealthCare Utilization by Frail Male Veterans"

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Congratulations Sociology Doctoral Graduates

Congratulations to Timothy Goler and Kelly Melvin-Campbell for successfully defending their dissertations! DISSERTATION TITLES: “Racial Differences in Stressful Life Events, Coping and Psychological Well-being among Urban Older Adults” by Timothy Goler. “Who Is Talking With Whom? An Investigation of Community Policing and Inter-Agency Collaboration In a Rustbelt Secondary City: A Case Study”...

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Brian Gran wins Diekhoff Award; other Sociology faculty and instructors receive award nominations

Congratulations to Brian Gran for receiving the John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the education of graduate students through advising, mentoring and classroom teaching.   Congratulations, also, to sociology faculty and instructors who were nominated for the Jackson and Wittke Awards:  Spencier Ciaralli, Karie Feldman,...

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