Arland Thornton received the Irene B. Taeuber Award at the 2011 annual meetings of the Population Association of America. This biennial award, jointly sponsored by PAA and the Office of Population Research, is given in recognition of either an unusually original or important contribution to the scientific study of population or an accumulated record of… Continue reading Arland Thornton receives 2011 Taeuber Award

Ronald Inglehart and colleague Pippa Norris won the 2011 Johan Skytte Prize in political science, awarded annually by Sweden’s Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University for the most valuable contribution to political science. In making the award, the committee cited Inglehart’s and Norris’s “innovative ideas about the relevance and roots of political culture in a global… Continue reading Ronald Inglehart awarded 2011 Johan Skytte Prize

The Russell Sage Foundation has appointed Jim House, along with 18 other leading social scientists, to be a visiting scholar in residence for 2010-2011. House plans to work on a book on health and health care.

At the U-M Regents meeting on September 16, 2010, John Bound was named the George E. Johnson Collegiate Professor of Economics, effective September 1, 2010 to August 31, 2015. Like the late Dr. Johnson, Dr. Bound has studied and taught labor economics. Bound’s current research examines the labor force participation and health status of older… Continue reading John Bound named George E. Johnson Collegiate Professor of Economics

The Library of Congress’s Digital Preservation Program honored Gutmann’s work at ICPSR and as part of the Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS), a project that works to acquire and preserve a broad range of at-risk data, such as opinion polls, voting records and large-scale surveys.

Beginning September 1, 2010 Helen Levy will serve as a Senior Economist for the Council of Economic Advisors. The CEA is an agency within the Executive Office of the President charged with advising the President on the formulation of both domestic and international economic policy. Levy will serve until mid-August 2011.

Harding is among three faculty researchers selected to receive the University of Michigan’s 2011 Henry Russel Award, one of the highest honors given to junior faculty. Harding’s research focuses on connections between social contexts and the reproduction of inequality, especially the sources of poverty and disadvantage rooted in community characteristics.

Teresa Sullivan was named to serve on a committee that will study and make recommendations on the state and future of the American research university.¶¶The group is charged with recommending 10 actions that “Congress, the federal government, state governments, research universities and others could take to assure the ability of the American research community to… Continue reading Teresa Sullivan named to national committee on state and future of American research university