April 2024 Good News
April 2024 Good News
Inside of “Oz”……
Gary Adler was chosen to participate in the Lake Institute Network of Emerging Scholars (LINES), a fellowship program of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. The program seeks "To create, foster, and sustain an interdisciplinary field of scholarly research focusing on the broad relationship between religion and philanthropy."
David Baker was honored to be the first non-Korean expert on education to be invited to present a keynote on the future of education in Korea to the nation's education policy-makers, educational scientists, national media, and ministry officials at the end of June. This is equally important because South Korea is at the world's cutting-edge, both positively and negatively, facing the main challenges to the future of education and their broader consequences. How Korea comes, we will too in many ways. The title of his talk reflects this: “Falling Birthrates, Spreading Shadow Education, and Globalizing Science Production: What do World Trends Mean for the Future of Korean Education?”
Sarah Brothers is the recipient of the 2024 College of the Liberal Arts' Roy C Buck Award. This award recognizes the best article accepted or published by an untenured, tenure-track assistant professor in the college within the last year. Sarah is receiving this article for her lead authored manuscript, “Perceptions towards HCV Treatment with Direct Acting Antivirals (DAAs): A Qualitative Analysis with Persons with HIV/HCV Co- Infection Who Delay or Refuse Treatment” published in the journal AIDS and Behavior in 2023.
Sarah Damaske was named the Roy C. Buck Professor of American Institutions and Sociology, Labor and Employment Relations, and Women's Studies.
Sarah Font, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, was awarded with an Early Career University Endowed Fellowship, which recognizes assistant and associate professors who have a strong record of scholarship and public service.
Cleothia Frazier is the recipient of two grants: 1) University of Maryland Network on Education, Biosocial Pathways, and Dementia across Diverse Populations ($40K) and 2) Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) ($35K).
Michael Johnson was featured in a special issue of Journal of Family Violence in the article Johnson’s Typology of Intimate Partner Violence: Reflecting on the First 25 Years and Looking Ahead 39:1 (January, 2024).
Melissa Hardy, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, announced her retirement.
Jessica Ho won the 2023 IPUMS Health Surveys Research Award for her article "Life Course Patterns of Prescription Drug Use in the United States," which was published in Demography.
Anna Shetler received Penn State RGSO Dissertation Support Funding ($750).
Jennifer Van Hook has been named a Distinguished Professor.
Emerson Waite received Penn State RGSO Dissertation Support Funding ($995).
Bianca Wirth has two new publications. One article titled “From an Election to an Insurrection: Comparing Sentiment Shifts in the #DefundthePolice and #DefendthePolice Networks on Twitter” was published in PlosOne with Megan Evans, a Penn State sociology program graduate, who was the second author. Bianca’s master's thesis, titled "Immigrant Threat or Institutional Context? Examining Police Agency and County Context and the Implementation of the 287(g) Program," was published in The Sociological Quarterly, and her advisor Eric Baumer is the second author. Bianca also received Penn State RGSO Dissertation Support Funding ($179).
Elise Wolff received a Penn State Religious Studies Initiative's Graduate Student Paper Prize ($500) for her paper on “What Local Government Officials Want Us to Know and What Else Their Responses Can Tell Us: Commonly Deployed Schemas in Feedback to a Pilot Survey on Religion- State Interactions.”
Yiwen Zhang was awarded second place ($500) in the Video category of the 2024 Graduate Exhibition.
We look forward to sharing more good news with you at the end of May!
Please be sure to send us your good news items!!
Inside of “Oz”……
Gary Adler was chosen to participate in the Lake Institute Network of Emerging Scholars (LINES), a fellowship program of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. The program seeks "To create, foster, and sustain an interdisciplinary field of scholarly research focusing on the broad relationship between religion and philanthropy."
David Baker was honored to be the first non-Korean expert on education to be invited to present a keynote on the future of education in Korea to the nation's education policy-makers, educational scientists, national media, and ministry officials at the end of June. This is equally important because South Korea is at the world's cutting-edge, both positively and negatively, facing the main challenges to the future of education and their broader consequences. How Korea comes, we will too in many ways. The title of his talk reflects this: “Falling Birthrates, Spreading Shadow Education, and Globalizing Science Production: What do World Trends Mean for the Future of Korean Education?”
Sarah Brothers is the recipient of the 2024 College of the Liberal Arts' Roy C Buck Award. This award recognizes the best article accepted or published by an untenured, tenure-track assistant professor in the college within the last year. Sarah is receiving this article for her lead authored manuscript, “Perceptions towards HCV Treatment with Direct Acting Antivirals (DAAs): A Qualitative Analysis with Persons with HIV/HCV Co- Infection Who Delay or Refuse Treatment” published in the journal AIDS and Behavior in 2023.
Sarah Damaske was named the Roy C. Buck Professor of American Institutions and Sociology, Labor and Employment Relations, and Women's Studies.
Sarah Font, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, was awarded with an Early Career University Endowed Fellowship, which recognizes assistant and associate professors who have a strong record of scholarship and public service.
Cleothia Frazier is the recipient of two grants: 1) University of Maryland Network on Education, Biosocial Pathways, and Dementia across Diverse Populations ($40K) and 2) Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) ($35K).
Michael Johnson was featured in a special issue of Journal of Family Violence in the article Johnson’s Typology of Intimate Partner Violence: Reflecting on the First 25 Years and Looking Ahead 39:1 (January, 2024).
Melissa Hardy, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, announced her retirement.
Jessica Ho won the 2023 IPUMS Health Surveys Research Award for her article "Life Course Patterns of Prescription Drug Use in the United States," which was published in Demography.
Anna Shetler received Penn State RGSO Dissertation Support Funding ($750).
Jennifer Van Hook has been named a Distinguished Professor.
Emerson Waite received Penn State RGSO Dissertation Support Funding ($995).
Bianca Wirth has two new publications. One article titled “From an Election to an Insurrection: Comparing Sentiment Shifts in the #DefundthePolice and #DefendthePolice Networks on Twitter” was published in PlosOne with Megan Evans, a Penn State sociology program graduate, who was the second author. Bianca’s master's thesis, titled "Immigrant Threat or Institutional Context? Examining Police Agency and County Context and the Implementation of the 287(g) Program," was published in The Sociological Quarterly, and her advisor Eric Baumer is the second author. Bianca also received Penn State RGSO Dissertation Support Funding ($179).
Elise Wolff received a Penn State Religious Studies Initiative's Graduate Student Paper Prize ($500) for her paper on “What Local Government Officials Want Us to Know and What Else Their Responses Can Tell Us: Commonly Deployed Schemas in Feedback to a Pilot Survey on Religion- State Interactions.”
Yiwen Zhang was awarded second place ($500) in the Video category of the 2024 Graduate Exhibition.
We look forward to sharing more good news with you at the end of May!
Please be sure to send us your good news items!!