Undergraduate sociology major, Jazmine Kirkland, will be honored with the Mather Prize for Professional and Academic Achievements, Leadership and Service at the Women of Achievement Luncheon held on October 23.
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Jessica A. Kelley-Moore, Kathleen A. Cagney, Kimberly A. Skarupski (PhD 1996), Susan A. Everson-Rose, and Carlos F. Mendes de Leon published “Do Local Social Hierarchies Matter for Mental Health? A Study of Neighborhood Social Status and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults” in the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. (September 2015)
Jielu Lin (PhD 2014) and Jessica Kelley-Moore published an article in Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences entitled “From Noise to Signal: The Age and Social Patterning of Intra-Individual Variability in Late-Life Health.” (August 2015)
On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life before Pregnancy, co-authored by Professors Mary Patrice Erdmans and Timothy Black, received the Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award of the Association for Humanist Sociology. The awards committee unanimously selected On Becoming a Teen Mom out of 70 submissions for its comprehensive methodology, humanist perspective, and demonstration of the relationships between, gender, power, race, and class on outcomes for teen moms. The committee also noted that the book is rigorously written and offers a compelling argument for social activists.
Scientific American and Remedy Health Media have partnered to identify emerging trends in the field of medical research and communicate these findings in Scientific American Health After 50. In the special Fall 2015 issue you can find Eva Kahana featured in the article “Volunteering: Giving and Getting” sharing her expertise and knowledge.
Two sociology faculty members were elected to national office in this Spring’s American Sociological Association (ASA) election.
Jessica Kelley-Moore was elected to the position of Chair-Elect of the Section on Aging and the Life Course. She will serve as Chair of the Section in 2016-2017. Jessica’s election to this important office continues a long tradition of Section leadership from CWRU faculty, several of whom have served as chair and in other leadership roles in the past.
Eva Kahana was elected to council of the Section on Disability in Society. This follows on her recent term as Chair of the Nominating Committee for the Section.
Congratulations, Jessica and Eva !