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January 10, 2018

 Daniel Aldana Cohen recently co-hosted a special joint podcast produced by Cited and Hot & Bothered, called "The Invisible Climate Migrants".

December 11, 2017

Leslie Jones, Ph.D. candidate, was featured in Penn SAS' Omnia for her research on intellectual contributions by Black feminists on social media. You can read the full feature here.

November 20, 2017

Emilio Parrado was interviewed by WHYY about an upcoming panel on immigration and the American city. You can listen to the full interview here.

November 20, 2017

"Working Class Environmentalism", Daniel Aldana Cohen's essay has been published in Public Books' The Big Picture. You can read the essay here.

November 9, 2017

Phoebe Ho, a Ph.D. candidate, and Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng ('14) have co-authored a study comparing social class differences in parental support for children's education among immigrant and native families in The Sociological Quarterly. Their study, "In Thoughts, Words, and Deeds: Are Social Class Differences in Parental Support Similar across Immigrant and Native Families?, can be read here.

November 9, 2017
Hyunjoon Park, Jere R. Behrman, and Jaesung Choi's article "Do Single-Sex Schools Enhance Students' STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Outcomes?" (PIER Working Paper 12-038), has been recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: Gender in the Global Research Landscape eJournal and WGSRN: Gender & Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) (Topic). As of November 6, 2017, this paper has been downloaded 437 times."
 
 This paper is forthcoming in the Economics of Education Review: Park, Hyunjoon, Jere R. Behrman, and Jaesung Choi. Forthcoming. "Do Single-Sex Schools Enhance Students' STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Outcomes?" Economics of Education Review. 
November 9, 2017

Emilio Parrado spoke about the immigration gap in how Latinos perceive discrimination with NPR. You can read the full article here.

November 9, 2017

Linda Aiken has been named a recipient of The Nell J. Watts Lifetime Achievement in Nursing Award. You can read more about Linda's achievement here.

November 3, 2017

Daniel Aldana Cohen's work on the changing of water as a resource has been featured in the Fall/ Winter issue of Penn Omnia. You can read the full article here.

November 3, 2017

Dorothy E. Roberts is among six other Penn faculty members who have been named to the National Academy of Medicine as highlighted by Penn News. You can read the full list of electees here.

October 30, 2017

Patricia Tevington, Ph.D. candidate, has published her article, Privileged to Worry: Social Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Strategies toward the Future among Young Adults, in The Sociological Quarterly. You can read the full article here.

October 30, 2017

Pilar Gonalons-Pons' piece on power couples and inequality has been featured on The Society Pages, part of the Council on Contemporary Families. You can read the full article here.

October 30, 2017

Penn Current has featured the work of Hans-Peter Kohler, Frank Furstenberg, Andres Castro, and Luca Maria Pesando for their research on disparities in familiar in low- and middle-income countries. You can read the full text here.

October 20, 2017

Tukufu Zuberi will be delivering the keynote address for this year's International Population Conference (IPC) of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) to be held in Cape Town, South Africa on October 28, 2017. Information about the conference can be found here.

October 20, 2017

Daniel Aldana Cohen's essay, "The Last Stimulus", on contested social and economic dimensions of the clean energy transition, that was in this summer’s environment-themed issue of Jacobin, has just been published online. You can read the electronic version here.

October 17, 2017

Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. You can read more about the newest elects here.

October 13, 2017

Emily Hannum has been elected to the board of directors at the Population Association of America (PAA). You can view the election results here. 

October 6, 2017

Amada Armenta's latest book, Protect, Serve, and Deport, has been featured in Penn Current along with an interview from Dr. Armenta. You can read the full text here.

October 6, 2017

Daniel Aldana Cohen's July 2017 Jacobin Magazine article has been translated into Spanish and shared on Contra el diluvio. You can read the translated article here and the original here.

September 14, 2017

Ph.D. candidate Leslie Jones has been named a recipient of the 2017-2018 Price Mellon Graduate Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year. More informatiojn about Leslie can be found here. 

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