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George Kypriotakis

July 26, 2019
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CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science, Division of OVP, Cancer Prevention and Populations Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX DISSERTATION TITLE: "A year in their lives: Trajectories of well-being for patient diagnosed with advanced stages of cancer" GRADUATION YEAR: 2012

Rachel Harrison

August 8, 2023
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CURRENT POSITION: Associate Dean for Research, Walsh University DISSERTATION TITLE: "Finding Forever Homes: Examining Parental Motives and Preferences in Adoption" GRADUATION YEAR: 2017

Lynn Falletta

July 23, 2019
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MOST RECENT POSITION: Research Assistant Professor, College of Public Health, Kent State University DISSERTATION TITLE: "It's Not Just Pure Science: Federal Funding of Children's Mental Health Research through the Request for Applications (RFA) Process" GRADUATION YEAR: 2011

Professors Erdmans and Black receive award for recent book

September 11, 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.

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