September Faculty Awards

National Institute on Aging Grant Award

Sanyu Mojola has been awarded greatn money for a 5 year R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging, NIH for her project HIV after 40 in Rural South Africa: Aging in the Context of an HIV/AIDS Epidemic.  She is serving as Principal Investigator on the grant which has multiple collaborators (including Jane Menken who is one of the co-investigators).  South Africa has the world's largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS (7 million) and is the most rapidly aging country on the African continent.  The study uses a life course approach to examine why HIV rates are so high among middle aged and older rural South Africans aged 40-79, and expects to contribute significant new information to guide HIV prevention and treatment programming for a population that is often ignored.  

2016 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award

Sanyu Mojola received the 2016 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the American Sociological Association for her book "Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS" during the awards ceremony at the recent ASA meeting in Seattle.  She was also elected as a Council member for the Sex and Gender Section of ASA for the 2016-2019 term.