Dr. Mike Lacy has made very significant contributions to the teaching, research and service missions of CSU’s Department of Sociology. As a teacher, over the last nearly 30 years helped to build strong sociology undergraduate and graduate programs, providing key required courses, including research methods, statistics and computer methods.

He’s been in high demand for many years across campus as a statistical and quantitative expert, and consequently as an important contributor to interdisciplinary research at
CSU. He’s maintained a steady output of high quality research and publications, resulting in some 40 peer-reviewed journal articles.

He also served for 15 years as the department’s Director of Graduate Studies and has helped build a graduate program recognized nationally for its specialized strengths.

We will miss him but wish him well! A celebration was held at Avogadro’s Number on October 22, 2018.