PH.D CANDIDATE COURTNEY FELDSCHER TO GIVE KEY NOTE SPEECH AT CAI-NE
Ph.D. Candidate Courtney L. Feldscher will serve as the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the New England Chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI-NE) this weekend in Boston, MA. Courtney is the 2010/2011 recipient of the Foundation for Community Association Research’s Byron Hanke Fellowship.
Alumna Sarah Tosh Awarded Fellowship to Study at CUNY Graduate Center
Sarah Tosh (BA, 09) will begin her doctoral studies in sociology this fall (2011) at the CUNY Graduate Center, which has awarded her a fellowship to support her studies
PH.D. CANDIDATE COURTNEY FELDSCHER TO PRESENT AT COMMUNITY ASSOC. INSTITUTE IN FLORIDA
Ph.D. Candidate Courtney L. Feldscher is presenting her paper, “Managing Conflict: The Who, What, Where, When, and Why”, at the annual meeting of the Community Associations Institute in Boca Raton, Florida. Courtney is the 2010/2011 recipient of the Foundation for Community Association Research’s Byron Hanke Fellowship.
UNDERGRADUATE ALUM JENNIFER MACY SUMNER WINS NSF FUNDING
Jennifer Macy Sumner (SO’99), has won National Science Foundation funding for her comparative research on the incarceration of transgender inmates in the U.S. and in Italy. Sumner is currently an assistant professor of criminal justice at Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, and is continuing her research in Italy this spring.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ASHLEY MEARS AWARDED JUNIOR FELLOWSHIP
Assistant Professor Ashley Mears has been awarded the distinguished Junior Fellowship from the Humanities Foundation for the academic year 2011/2012. She will receive leave for one semester to devote herself to her research.
PROF. SMITH-DOERR ELECTED TO ADVISORY BOARD FOR THE NEW NATIONAL CENTER FOR ETHICS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Congratulations to Professor Laurel Smith-Doerr who recently agreed to serve on the agreed to serve on the Advisory Board for the new National Center for Ethics in Science and Engineering funded by NSF. It will be housed at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, with a PI of the $5million grant. Further information can be found […]
COURTNEY FELDSCHER WINS GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
Ph.D. candidate Courtney Feldscher is this year’s recipient of the Byron Hanke Fellowship from the Foundation for Community Association Research. The fellowship was awarded to support her dissertation research on conflict in homeowners’ associations. Congratulations, Courtney!
GRADUATE STUDENT KIRI GURD WINS PARDEE SUMMER FELLOWSHIP
Congratulations to Kiri Gurd on this opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing along with others who are exploring topics related to the work of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. Returning to Boston from her year of work with the International Center for Transitional Justice, […]
BU ALUMNUS LEONARD BROOM (1911-2009)
Leonard Broom, (BS, Phi Beta Kappa, 1933; AM 1934), passed away November 19, 2009, in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 98. One of the first sociologists to join the faculty at UCLA, he served there from 1941 through 1959. During that period, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, served as editor of the American […]
SYLVIA DOMINGUEZ RECEIVES FORD FELLOWSHIP
Sylvia Dominguez (Sociology/SSW PhD 05) has received the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship for Achieving Excellence in College and University Teaching. The Fellowships are given to individuals who have shown superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars […]