Destro and Rackin win Award

Lane Destro and Heather Rackin each won a 2009-2010 Sulzberger Family/Dan Levitan Social Policy Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship, administered by the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke, carries a stipend, a mentoring arrangement with a Center faculty member, and participation in a bi-monthly seminar."

Tiryakian wins ASA Award

Song Awarded Ph.D.

On Tuesday, June 2, Lijun Song successfully defended her dissertation:

"Your Body Knows Who You Know: Social Capital and Health Inequality"

Her committe: Nan Lin (Co-Chair), Linda K George (Co-Chair), Kennth C Land, Lynn Smith-Lovin, and David Brady.

Tiryakian's New Book on Durkheim Published

Ed Tiryakian's For Durkheim: Essays in Historical and Cultural Sociology has just been published by Ashgate Publishing (UK). The 360 page volume has 17 essays ranging from "Durkheim, Solidarity and September 11" to "No Laughing Matter : Applying Durkheim to Danish Cartoons".

Sereny to Present paper at UNFPA

Melanie Sereny has been invited to present her research paper “Living Arrangements of Older Adults in China: The Interplay Among Preferences, Realities, and Health” at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Seminar on Family Support Networks and Population Ageing to be held in Doha, Qatar June 3-4, 2009.

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