The Scientific Committee for the European Society of Rural Sociology (ESRS) invited Michael Carolan to be the keynote speaker for its 2019 Congress held in Norway June 25–28. The conference theme was “Rural Futures in a Complex World,” and Carolan’s talk was “Rural Sociology Revival: Overcoming Divides, Affording Additions, Confronting Injustices.” The ESRS was founded […]
Stephanie Malin, Adam Mayer and colleagues published “Putting on partisan glasses: Political identity, quality of life, and oil and gas production in Colorado” in Energy Policy.
Pat Hastings and co-authors Daniel Schneider and Joe LaBriola, both at University of California-Berkeley, have been awarded the American Sociological Association (ASA) 2019 Family Section Article of the Year Award for “Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments.” The study was published by American Sociological Review in May 2018. The award will be presented to Hastings and his colleagues […]
Jessie Luna presented a paper “Cultural and economic treadmills explaining herbicide use in Burkina Faso” and moderated a session at the Pesticide Politics in Africa conference held in May at the Tropical Pesticide Research Institute (TPRI) in Arusha, Tanzania. She was also on the conference’s Scientific Committee. This interdisciplinary, international conference focused on the use, […]
The Board of Larimer County Commissioners invited Professor of Sociology and President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) Prabha Unnithan to facilitate the public forum on Larimer County’s jail improvement and expansion plans. The forum was held Saturday, June 1 at the Old Town Library in Fort Collins. A panel of seven local experts took questions […]
Carina Roman-Solis chose CSU because it felt like home after spending many summers here with her high school’s Upward Bound program. This spring she took the podium as she walked the stage. Carina is one of two students chosen for what is a first in recent history—student speakers at CLA commencement, one spoke at each […]
The Center for Fair & Alternative Trade (CFAT) continues to pursue its interlocking research, teaching, and outreach activities focusing on local, national, & global market-based approaches to alleviating poverty & promoting sustainable development. Our research has been recently highlighted in a set of journal articles, including ongoing analysis of Fair Trade and global labor rights initiatives by CFAT’s […]
Have you seen the The Walking Dead? The television series isn’t real, but have you ever wondered what happens in the ‘real world’ when a deadly virus breaks out? In April the IRISS Facilitation team worked with NSF ERC research scientists who want to develop vaccines and solutions for instances when viruses break out around […]
Pat Mahoney is a member of this spring’s grant writing team for NSF’s Smart and Connected Communities project through CSU’s One Health Institute. CSU’s project proposal introduces a health-related information system to Longmont’s community-based health care system. Pat’s responsibilities are to design curricula to train prospective students to assist in coordinating and facilitating the use of Longmont’s system.
A Primer of Permutation Statistical Methods, the latest textbook by Ken Berry, Janis E. Johnston (’16 Ph.D.), and Paul Wand Mielke, Jr., has been released.
