Jessie Luna was an invited discussant for the session “Intersections of Interventions: On development, difference, dispossession and discourse” at the Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference in Lexington, Kentucky in February. She also presented a paper there, titled “Quantified Deservingness: a comparative political ecology of technological healthism.”
Lynn Hempel and CSU’s Graduate School presented “Mentoring – building relationships that build careers” during CSU’s 40th Annual Professional Development Institute (PDI) put on by The Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT) in January at the LSC (shown below right). The session covered why have a mentor, the responsibilities of both parties, establishing and fostering the […]
Over 190 CSU Extension employees from all over Colorado joined their on-campus colleagues October 22-25 for the 2018 Extension Forum held at the Lory Student Center. The annual event provides professional development, recognition and networking activities, as well as opportunities to work together and reach common goals. CSU’s Office of Engagement asked Dr. Lynn Hempel to […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is forming new Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) focused on solving convergent problems that address challenges with significant societal impact. NSF’s National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) held the Accelerating Engineering Research Center Preparedness Workshop in Virginia October 2 and 3, 2018. After directors of the NSF Division of Engineering Education & Centers and SESNYC […]
The CSU sociology professor received the 2018 Presidential Scholarship from the University of Auckland and spent two weeks there in April and May delivering public talks and doing media interviews about his research on food systems.
“The Revitalization and Technological Transformations of Rural Communities: Agricultural Extension, Rural Development, and Agrarian Change in the Developing World” was held in Shanghai June 24-25. This international conference was hosted by the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Shanghai Academy; co-organized by the Center for Rural Environmental and Social Studies, Institute of Sociology, […]
Pat Hastings presented his poster “Compared to Average? Geographic and Sociodemographic Reference Group Effects on Perceived Relative Income.”
Opsal presented “Locked Up and Shut Out: The Consequences of Mass Incarceration and Reentry,” a Dialogues Around Difference event.
Mike Lacy and Prabha Unnithan led the “Meet Your Editors” session at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) in Minneapolis.
Jeni Cross spoke at the 2018 Urban Future Global Conference in Vienna during the “How to communicate ‘sustainability'” and “Sustainable districts: how to develop them and make them successful” sessions.
