Sioban Harlow is among 12 U-M scholars to receive a Fulbright grant in 2017-2018. She will work at the International Center for Advanced Research and Training in Bukavi, Congo. Her research project is entitled: “Long-term Population Health Consequences of Conflict-Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence”

On January 1, 2018, Pamela Smock begins a 3-year term on the Population Association of America’s Committee on Publications. Among other duties, this group recommends new editors for *Demography* and *PAA Affairs.* Smock will serve as Chair in 2020.

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has given the 2017 Robert W. Kleemeier Award to Neal Krause in recoginition of his outstanding research. The award recognizes Krause’s contributions to the field of religion, health, and aging, including his development and use of measures of religious experience such as church-based social support, religious meaning, and God-mediated… Continue reading Neal Krause wins GSA’s Robert Kleemeier Award

On April 28 at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, former PSC trainee Eric Chyn won the Dorothy S Thomas Award for best graduate student paper on the interrelationships among social, economic and demographic variables. Chyn’s winning paper is entitled: “The Long-Run Effect of Public Housing Demolition on Labor Market Outcomes of… Continue reading Former PSC trainee Eric Chyn wins PAA’s Dorothy S. Thomas Award for best paper

Heather Ann Thompson, who spent more than a decade researching the 1971 Attica prison uprising in which 39 men were killed and 100 were wounded, has received the Pulitzer Prize for history for her book on the subject: “Blood in the Water.” U-M President Mark Schlissel said that Thompson’s work “is an outstanding example of… Continue reading Heather Ann Thompson wins Pulitzer Prize for book on Attica uprising, Blood In The Water

Nicholas Prieur, research process manager at ISR’s Youth and Social Issues Program, won the Research Administrator Recognition Award from U-M’s Office of Research. He plays key roles in pre- and post-award grant activities, serving as the administrator of record for 116 awards worth more than $54 million in funding from 2011 to 2016.¶¶An award reception… Continue reading ISR’s Nick Prieur wins UMOR award for exceptional contribution to U-M’s research mission

PSC researcher Heather Ann Thompson was one of three recipients of the 2017 Bancroft Prize for History. She received the award for her book “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy” (Pantheon), which drew on extensive documentation – some never before seen by scholars – in reconstructing the uprising… Continue reading Heather Ann Thompson wins Bancroft Prize for History for ‘Blood in the Water’

PSC research affiliate Sioban Harlow will receive the 2017 Sarah Goddard Power Award on Feb 8, 4 pm, at the Michigan League. A U-M professor of epidemiology (SPH) and of obstetrics and and gynecology (Med School), and director of the Center for Midlife Science, Harlow was given this award for her work demonstrating leadership, research,… Continue reading Sioban Harlow honored with 2017 Sarah Goddard Power Award for commitment to women’s health

In recognition of their international work on high-impact public health projects, Carlos Mendes de Leon and Sioban Harlow have been named as U-M Professors of Global Public Health. Their appointments are for three years.

Jukka Savolainen and his colleague from University of Oslo, Torbjørn Skardhamar, received the 2016 Outstanding Contribution Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Developmental and Life Course Criminology for their article “Changes in criminal offending around the time of job entry: A study of employment and desistance.” The award was given at the… Continue reading Savolainen wins Outstanding Contribution Award for study of how employment affects recidivism among past criminal offenders