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Jill Harrison’s new book, From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies, was featured in an article in E&E News this week

Fall 2020 Virtual Speaker Series Thursday, October 8th 4:00-5:00PM (MDT) Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core By: Christi Sue, Associate Professor Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder Cosponsored by the Latin American Studies Center (LASC) Please register for this free talk at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/durable-ethnicity-mexican-americans-and-the-ethnic-core-tickets-120247245749?aff=erellivmlt Thursday, October 29th 12:30-1:30PM...

A part of the socioligy speaker series! November 12 th , 12:30-1:30 The Black Deaths America Treats as Normal Dr. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota Many people are now familiar with the 1918 flu -- the last pandemic on the scale of the current crisis --...

Andrea Tilstra spoke with 9News on 9/15 about the problem with CU's delayed COVID count dissemination. The segment aired on the 6 PM news.

Mollborn, Stefanie, Elizabeth M. Lawrence, and Robert A. Hummer. Published online ahead of print. “A Gender Framework for Understanding Health Lifestyles.” Social Science & Medicine .

We are so pleased to announce a new publication with sociology graduate student, Candace Evans, and faculty member, Lori Peek. Adams, Rachel M., Candace Evans, Mason Mathews, Amy Wolkin, and Lori Peek. 2020. “Mortality From Forces of Nature Among Older Adults by Race/Ethnicity and Gender.” Journal of Applied Gerontology.

Lori Peek was quoted in this recent Atlantic article by journalist Ed Yong, “America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral.”

Dan Simon presented his paper, "Structural Shocks and Suicide Mortality: The Cases of the Opioid Epidemic and the Great Recession in the United States" (co-authored with Ryan Masters) at the ASA Health and Mortality session sponsored by the Section on the Sociology of Population.

David Pyrooz, Kendra Clark, and Jennifer Tostlebe published a paper in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency , titled “Gang affiliation and prisoner reentry: Discrete-time variation in recidivism by current, former, and non-gang status” (coauthored with Scott Decker and Erin Orrick).

With the support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Science Foundation, the Natural Hazards Center released a Special Call for Quick Response proposals for research in the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Thanks to...