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Joyce Kim, PhD Candidate in Soc & Higher Education, has won the Graduate Student paper award from the Altruism, Morality, & Social Solidarity section of ASA

Xiuqi Yang's, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Demography, paper, "Duration and Timing of Parental Out-migration and Early Childhood Development in China," has been awarded  an honorable mention by the ASA Section on Asian and Asian America Graduate Student

Olivia Hu's, PhD Candidate in Sociology, paper, "Let’s Talk About Race, Baby: How Interracial and Interethnic Relationships Influence East Asian Women’s Racial Ideologies" was awarded an honorable mention from ASA 2024

Jack Thornton's, PhD Candidate in Sociology, paper, “‘Are We the Help?’ Frontline Fundraising as Elite Service Work", received the honorable mention for the Student Paper Award for the ASA's 2024  Section on Consumers and Consumption

Dr. Mengyang (Zoe) Zhao former doctoral student in Penn Sociology & current research affiliate in the Center on Digital Culture and Society was awarded a 2024 Activism, Communication & Social Justice of the International Communication Association

Elena van Stee, PhD Candidate in Sociology, has been awarded a Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Research Grant to support her project, "Still Launching? Moral Understandings of Financial (In)Dependence in Young Adulthood."

Kai Feng, Ph.D. Candidate, Demography & Sociology, and Emily Hannum, Professor of Sociology and Education & Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences, have recently published a new co-authored article in Sage Journals

Hyunjoon Park, Jere Behrman, Irma Elo, Xi Song, & Paula Fomby, project, "Pathways to Education Development & Their Consequences: Finland, Korea, US", was awarded a 2024 Penn Global Research

Ben Shestakofsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology's new book, "Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality",  was reviewed in the New York Times & Published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review!

 Irma Elo, Tamsen and Michael Brown Presidential Professor of Sociology, and Iliana Kohler, Practice Associate Professor in Sociology & Associate Director of the Populations Studies Center, awarded a 2024 Penn Global grant