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April 2011
- Steve Jacobs (Sociology) received the 2010-11 Calvin VanderWerf Award for excellence in teaching, presented by the Graduate School. This is the highest teaching award presented to grad students at UF.
- Joe Rukus (Criminology and Law) received the 2010-11 Service Learning Faculty Member of the Year Award presented by UF’s Center for Leadership and Service.
October 2010
August 2010
- Daniel Fernandez-Baca, a Sociology graduate student, was recently featured in the news for his research: Women stay in fringes of most popular comic strips, study finds [UF News]
- We welcome our new faculty member, Dr. Robert White (University of Wisconsin, Sociology), and our new graduate students!
April 2010
- Deeb Kitchen was among 21 graduate students university-wide selected to receive a 2009-10 Graduate Student Teaching Award from the UF Graduate School.
December 2009
- Richard Hollinger was quoted in a New York Times story on retail employee fraud using gift cards.
- Bryan Miller received a Spring 2010 CLAS Dissertation Fellowship.
May 2009
- Jeff Ward was award a Guggenheim Foundation
Dissertation Fellowship.
- Dr. Regina Bures received a grant from the National Center for Marriage Research (NCMR) will support her one-year project, Family Structure, Employment and Retirement in Later Midlife.
April 2009
- William Jawde and Bryan Miller were among 23 graduate students university-wide selected to receive a 2008-9 Graduate Student Teaching Award from the UF Graduate School.
- Billy Jeffries was awarded one of the Rainbow Alliance Awards for Excellence in Research by the University Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Committee and the Rainbow Alliance. He received it for his dissertation work entitled, Sexual Health Behaviors Among Bisexual Men in the United States.
- Ching-Yu (Louisa) Chang received an O. Ruth McQuown Scholarship Award for her dissertation project on work-family balance among Asian flight attendants.
January 2009
- Dr. Brian Mayer and Dr. Christine Overdevest received a CLAS Preliminary Studies Grant for their project Bucket Brigades and Citizen Science: Empowering Communities with Information.
- Billy Jeffries received a Spring 2009 CLAS Dissertation Fellowship and has accepted a position at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) upon completion of his PhD in May.
December 2008
- Dr. Charles Wood received the 2008 International Educator of the Year Award presented by UF’s International Center. The International Center established this award to recognize outstanding international endeavors by UF faculty members, in order to support UF’s strategic goal of internationalizing the campus and curriculum.
- Dr. Kendal Broad-Wright received a 2008-09 CLAS Humanities Enhancement Grant for her project on The Narrative Work of Multi Racial Gay Men’s Groups.
- Dr. Tamir Sorek received a 2008-09 CLAS Humanities Enhancement Grant for his project Cautious Commemoration: The Arab-Jewish Memory Struggle in Israel and Palestine.
- Dr. Barb Zsembik received the 2008 William Jones Outstanding Mentoring Award from the McKnight Doctoral Fellows Program.
- Justin Coran was recently elected as the graduate member of the National Health Communications Board. He is the only student member on the board.
November 2008
- Ching-Yu (Louisa) Chang and Namita Manohar received Outstanding International Student Awards at a ceremony held on November 18, 2008. The awards were presented by UF's International Center.
- Dr. Chris Gibson was named the 2008 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow by the National Institute of Justice.
May, 2006
- Wesley Jennings won the first annual Graduate
Student Research Paper Competition. The title of his paper was Regional
Variations in Punitiveness for White-Collar Offenders: A Re-analysis of
the Crisis in the Savings and Loan Industry.
Spring, 2005
- The Criminology department was ranked 11th in the nation by the
US News and World Report ranking
of doctoral programs in criminology and criminal justice.
February, 2004
- Alex Piquero was awarded one of 12 college-level teaching and advising awards for 2003-04. The awards recognize excellence, innovation and effectiveness in either teaching or advising. Nominations were collected from students, faculty, department chairs and administrators.
December 3, 2003
- Today the Florida Board of Governors unanimously approved our Ph.D. in Criminology. Congratulations to Lonn Lanza-Kaduce and everyone else who worked so hard to make this happen.
