Current News
Nestor Rodriguez Receives ASA Latina/o Section Distinguished Career Award
Posted: May 15, 2013
Nestor Rodriguez has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 American Sociological Association Latina/o Section Distinguished Career Award.
Dan Hamermesh Receives Prestigious Career Achievement Award
Posted: May 14, 2013
The Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Labor Economics was awarded to Dan Hamermesh at the annual meeting of the Society of Labor Economists.
Aprile Benner Selected for Prestigious Scholars Program
Posted: May 14, 2013
Aprile Benner has been named to the 2013 class of William T. Grant Scholars, which supports promising early career researchers.
Kaeley Bobbitt Publishes Op-Ed in Austin-American Statesman
Posted: May 5, 2013
PRC Trainee Bobbitt argues that Lawmakers have opportunity to do more for Texas children by investing in both education and health care.
Several PRC Faculty Are Featured on "Knowledge Matters"
Posted: May 5, 2013
A video series from the College of Liberal Arts about UT experts' research findings includes interviews with Paige Harden, Daniel Hamermesh, Robert Crosnoe, and David Kirk
Rebecca Callahan and Chandra Muller Publish New Book
Posted: Apr 5, 2013
Published by the Russell Sage Foundation, "Coming of Political Age" describes the importance of schools in integrating immigrant youth into the U.S. political system.
PRC Alumna Suzana Cavenaghi on the IUSSP Ballot for Vice President
Posted: Apr 5, 2013
Suzana Cavenaghi (Ph.D. in Sociology/Demography, 1999) is on the ballot for the vice presidency of the IUSSP.
Carmen Gutierrez & Elizabeth Keneski Awarded Prestigious NSF Fellowship
Posted: Apr 4, 2013
Two PRC graduate student trainees, Carmen Gutierrez & Elizabeth Keneski, to receive 2013 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
Texas Policy Evaluation Project Releases Web App Displaying Local Data on Family Planning Services
Posted: Apr 3, 2013
Researchers with the PRC's Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) have developed TxPEP Family Planning Data Finder, a web app that describes the provision of family planning services in each county, Senate district, House district, and public health region in Texas, as well as for the state as a whole.
REU Program Receives Another 3 Years of Funding
Posted: Apr 2, 2013
Under the leadership of David Kirk and Keith Robinson, NSF funded the REU program "Undergraduate Research in Race, Ethnicity, and the Demography of Crime and Punishment
Vadricka Etienne, former REU student, Awarded Prestigious NSF Fellowship
Posted: Apr 2, 2013
Former REU student, Vadricka Etienne, to receive a 2013 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
April Sutton Interviewed for Sage SOE podcasts about Recent Sociology of Education Paper
Posted: Mar 27, 2013
Sutton and co-authors Chandra Muller, and Amy G. Langenkamp found that transfer students are disadvantaged in their postsecondary educational trajectories.
Joshua Wassink awarded Best Undergraduate Paper at 2012 Southern Demographic Association meeting
Posted: Mar 27, 2013
REU student, Joshua Wassink, awarded Best Undergraduate Paper at 2012 Southern Demographic Association meeting
Aprile Benner Receives Early Career Award
Posted: Feb 27, 2013
The Society for Research in Child Development has awarded Aprile Benner the 2013 Early Career Research Contribution Award.
David Yeager Receives Another Dissertation Award
Posted: Feb 26, 2013
The Society for Research in Child Development awarded David Yeager its Outstanding Dissertation Award.
Isaac Sasson Won a Best Paper Award from the Southern Demographic Association
Posted: Feb 26, 2013
PRC Graduate Student Trainee Isaac Sasson received the Everett S. Lee best graduate student paper award for his 2012 paper, “Gender Differences in Depression Following Late Widowhood: A Population Perspective.”
Chandra Muller, Sandra E. Black and Colleagues Receive Large Grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Posted: Feb 5, 2013
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded $3.2 million to PRC researchers and their colleagues to study how adolescent and early adult experiences affect work among older Americans.
New Study on Latino Educational Stratification Published in Social Forces
Posted: Dec 10, 2012
In "School Stratification in New and Established Latino Destinations," Molly Dondero and Chandra Muller investigate changing educational contexts for Latino students.
The New England Journal of Medicine Publishes "Cutting Family Planning in Texas"
Posted: Sep 26, 2012
In "Cutting Family Planning in Texas," TxPEP investigators Kari White, Daniel Grossman, Kristine Hopkins, and Joseph E. Potter discuss the mechanism through which massive family planning budget cuts are affecting reproductive health in Texas.
