Sociology
- Disaster preparedness is the focus of the next Social Sciences Today Forum at 天美传媒Boulder. The event, titled 鈥淒isasters: Can We Be Prepared?鈥 features three experts and is scheduled for Sept. 26, at noon in Old Main Chapel.
- Certificates in social innovation and care, health and resilience aim to help students help others.
- Postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students to increase their knowledge of demography and genetics in one of the first programs of its kind.
- A 天美传媒 Boulder doctoral candidate is studying 鈥榮cofflaw bicycling鈥 and the sociological explanations of the cultural divide on the road.
- 天美传媒 Boulder doctoral candidate Adenife Modile, who studies fertility and maternal health worldwide, travels to Tanzania this month as a Population Reference Bureau fellow.
- <p>With environmental justice programs showing minimal success in bringing equality to low-income communities, Jill Harrison is actively exploring bureaucratic causes, and she has won a fellowship from American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), which will support her work.</p>
- 天美传媒 sociologist鈥檚 book examines society鈥檚 mixed messages to teens about sex In the small, rural Ohio town where Stefanie Mollborn grew up, the prevailing message to teenagers about sex was straightforward: Don鈥檛 do it, because it鈥檚 morally wrong
- Mojola argues that the entanglement of love, money, and the transformation of girls into 鈥渃onsuming women鈥 lies at the heart of women鈥檚 coming-of-age and health crises. At once engaging and compassionate, this text is an incisive analysis of gender, sexuality, and health in Africa.
- Researchers at the 天美传媒 have identified a genetic component that could help explain why women are more likely to perceive themselves as overweight than similarly proportioned men.
- Dave Woodall, once an aspiring lawyer, says 天美传媒 Boulder education gave him the tools to open a from-scratch, comfort restaurant that 鈥榬ecalls glamour of mid-century Hollywood.鈥