ASA awards Pat Hastings 2019 Family Section Article of the Year Award

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 contributes to herbicide and GMO debates at conferences

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, […]

Prabha Unnithan moderates public forum for Larimer County Jail project

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 […]

Sociology student Carina Solis-Roman chosen as CLA Commencement speaker

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 […]

Laura Raynolds’ CFAT studies handicraft groups in India and Nepal, and more this spring

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 […]

Jeni Cross, Hannah Love and IRISS work with NSF, present at Science of Team Science conference, and more

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 designing curricula for NSF’s Smart and Connected Communities project

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.

Azmal Hossan accepted for CSU’s InTERFEWS program

Azmal Hossan has been accepted for CSU’s Interdisciplinary Training, Education, and Research in Food-Energy-Water Systems (InTERFEWS) program. Dr. Stephanie Malin worked to secure National Science Foundation (NSF) funding for CSU (scroll this article), and will be his program mentor. Azmal is one of only eight CSU Ph.D. students selected. His four-year training begins this fall.