Nina Glasgow organized a congressional briefing: Aging in America: 21st Century Trends on June 20th. Douglas Gurak also participated as a speaker.
DSOC is pleased to announce that Lori Leonard will be joining the faculty in January 2014. Dr. Leonard gave a seminar on her research in May titled "An Experiment in Development: The Social Life of a 'Model' Pipeline Project in Chad.
Faculty Tom Hirschl was interviewed about poverty amongst seniors on the program Senior Notebook, aired on both ABC and CBS. He also conducted an extension program on livable communities in Genesee County.
Faculty John Sipple was the keynote speaker at the North Country Symposium, featured on North Country Public Radio: North Country Schools Face Uncharted Ground.
He also submitted the op-ed piece "Mergers Aren't the Answer" to the Times Union.
Emeritus faculty J. Mayone Stycos was honored by the Population Association of America for his contribution to the development of the field of populations studies. More on this story here.
Eleanor Andrews, Sara Keene, Kasia Paprocki and Brian Thiede were among the eight graduate students chosen to receive a Rural Resilience Fellowship from the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and Oxfam America.
Mary Kritz: 'International Student Mobility and Tertiary Education Capacity in Africa' International Migration March 2013.
Wendy Wolford, et al, ed. Governing Global Land Deals: the Role of the State in the Rush for Land. Development and Change special issue March 2013.
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Several grant awards will help PhD candidate Tim Gorman explore the social and political dynamics of environmental change in the Mekong Delta. More here.
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Newly graduated senior Kyle Dake wins Sports Illustrated Athlete of the Year. Story.
Nina Glasgow has organized a Congressional Briefing on rural aging to be held on June 20th in Washington DC. Douglas Gurak will also be presenting.
Nina Glasgow, David Brown and Douglas Gurak made two recent presentations, one at Mann Library and one at Ithaca College, on their work on rural ageing, based on research published in Rural Aging in 21st Century America, co-edited by Nina Glasgow and E. Helen Berry (Springer, 2013). Glasgow provided an overview of rural population aging and discussed her research on social entrepreneurship by older rural persons; Brown discussed differences in the determinants and consequences of rural areas aging as a result of natural decrease and rural aging as a result of older in-migration, and Gurak discussed his research (with Mary Kritz) on the recent in-movement to rural areas of persons born outside of the US.
Banner photos provided by J.M. Stycos, M.J. Pfeffer, R. Howe, C. Lentz, M. Schneider.
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2013 Seminars and Other Events
Institute for Social Sciences Summer Institute on Contested Landscapes, Cornell University, May 13-17, 2013. See http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/ for details.
Heidi Mouillesseaux-Kunzman was promoted to Senior Extension Associate. She will provide leadership for the continued development and implementation of the CALS NYS Internship Program.
Mary Jo Dudley was quoted in the Wall Street Journal about the Cornell Farmworkers Program's involvement with the Law School on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Cynthia Caron '03 accepted a tenure track position in the Department of International Development, Community and Environment at Clark University.
Naoko Mizuno '11 will be teaching at Kyoto Sangyo University in Japan.