College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

28 November, 2011
Town Hall Event with Congressman Steny Hoyer, U.S. House of Representatives
The Millard E. Tydings Award for Courage and Leadership in American Politics will be awarded to Congressman Steny Hoyer (MD) on November 28th, 2011. Congressman Hoyer will be leading a town hall discussion following the ceremony.

28 November, 2011
SOCY Honored by Numerous Faculty Achievements

21 November, 2011
START Students Participate in CIA Competition

20 November, 2011
GEOG's Paul Torrens: Using Virtual Rioters to Predict Crowd Movement
Paul M. Torrens, an associate professor in the Department of Geography, has been featured on the front page of NewScientist.com, a website focusing on scientific discovery and its industrial, commercial and social consequences.

16 November, 2011
BSOS Needs Peer Mentors!

11 November, 2011
Nan Ratner awarded Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Program

12 September, 2011
Emerging Behavioral and Social Science Scholars Program

12 September, 2011
BSOS Undergraduate Blog Launch

6 June, 2011
The Center for the History of the New America Announces its Inaugural Conference
Born in the USA: The Politics of Birthright Citizenship in Historical Perspective

5 June, 2011
Shibley Telhami on C-SPAN: Future of the Middle East

23 May, 2011
Geography students win 2011 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship

6 May, 2011
Alumna Gail Ewing: A military victory

2 May, 2011
2011 Jerry Lee Symposium on Criminology and Public Policy

29 April, 2011
Gender Equality and Time Together for Partnered British, French, Dutch and American Parents

29 April, 2011
Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us

27 April, 2011
New Report Finds Major Differences Between O’Malley and Ehrlich Campaign Finances in 2010 and 2006

26 April, 2011
Bianca Bersani wins UMD Distinguished Dissertation Award for the Social Sciences

25 April, 2011
Conversations Across the African Diaspora: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives

20 April, 2011
NY Times Best-selling Author to Speak at The Universities at Shady Grove

13 April, 2011
The Center for the History of the New America Forum

13 April, 2011
The American Public and Arab Awakening – A Study of American Public Opinion

11 April, 2011
Soledad O’Brien speaks at the University of Maryland

9 April, 2011
Theorizing the Web 2011

1 April, 2011
Conference to address replacing Medicare competitive bidding program

31 March, 2011
Professor Mark Leone to discuss history of slavery on WAMU

21 February, 2011
Faculty In the News: February 12-19, 2011

14 February, 2011
Faculty In the News: February 5-11, 2011

9 February, 2011
Prestigious external fellowship opportunities for behavioral and social science graduate students offered this spring

7 February, 2011
Faculty In the News: January 29-February 4, 2011

31 January, 2011
2011 Maryland Politics Summit

31 January, 2011
Faculty In the News: January 22-28, 2011

24 January, 2011
Faculty In the News: January 15-21, 2011

17 January, 2011
Faculty In the News: January 8-14, 2011

10 January, 2011
Faculty In the News: January 1-7, 2011

3 January, 2011
Faculty In the News: December 25-31, 2010

27 December, 2010
Faculty In the News: December 18-24, 2010

20 December, 2010
Faculty In the News: December 11-17, 2010

15 December, 2010
Dean and Geography Professor John Townshend to receive award for service to the Earth science information community

13 December, 2010
Faculty In the News: December 4-10, 2010

8 December, 2010
Professor Sandra Gordon-Salant elected as fellow of the Acoustical Society of America

7 December, 2010
Sadat Lecture Features Former Secretary of State Albright

6 December, 2010
Faculty In the News: November 27-December 3, 2010

3 December, 2010
Professor Paul Herrnson Delivers Testimony on Campaign Finance Reform to Maryland Attorney General

1 December, 2010
Speech Pathologist Vivian Sisskin Interviews with NBC Nightly News Regarding Stuttering

29 November, 2010
Distinguished University Professor Harriet Presser: “When Work Calls, Holidays Put on Hold”

29 November, 2010
India Human Development Survey: "A Tale of Two Indians"

29 November, 2010
Professor Charles Stangor publishes new psychology textbook

29 November, 2010
Faculty In the News: November 20-26, 2010

22 November, 2010
Faculty In the News: November 13-19, 2010

16 November, 2010
Professor Shibley Telhami on PBS NewsHour regarding Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks

15 November, 2010
Faculty In the News: November 6-12, 2010

8 November, 2010
Faculty In the News: October 30-November 5, 2010

5 November, 2010
Professor Suheil Bushrui recognized as Interfaith Visionary 2010 Honoree

4 November, 2010
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awards grants to sociologists Sonalde Desai and Reeve Vanneman

1 November, 2010
Faculty In the News: October 23-29, 2010

27 October, 2010
Geographers George Hurtt and Louise Chini co-author paper: Scenarios for global biodiversity in the 21st century

25 October, 2010
Faculty In the News: October 16-22, 2010

20 October, 2010
Tea Party at Midterms: National Conference, Oct. 20, University of Maryland

19 October, 2010
Geographer George Hurtt: Climate mitigation and the future of tropical landscapes

18 October, 2010
Faculty In the News: October 9-15, 2010

11 October, 2010
Faculty In the News: October 2-8, 2010

11 October, 2010
A new study by Psychologist Andrea Chronis-Tuscano discusses early predictors of adolescent depression and suicide attempts in children with AD/HD

4 October, 2010
Faculty In the News: September 25-October 1, 2010

27 September, 2010
Eric Uslaner named Fulbright Distinguished Chair

27 September, 2010
Drug Policy and the Public Good - a recent book co-authored by Peter Reuter, receives award

27 September, 2010
Faculty In the News: September 18-24, 2010

20 September, 2010
Faculty In the News: September 11-17, 2010

20 September, 2010
In Memoriam: Dr. Ronald Walters

15 September, 2010
The college welcomes 22 new faculty

8 September, 2010
Alumna is Champion for Social Justice

8 September, 2010
Terrorist Attacks in DC and Maryland Rare Since 1980s

7 September, 2010
Faculty In the News: August 28-September 3, 2010

30 August, 2010
Faculty In the News: August 21-27, 2010

27 August, 2010
John Haltiwanger becomes Distinguished University Professor

27 August, 2010
Dr. Bill Falk to serve as interim chair of African American Studies Department

24 August, 2010
FAO launches NASA-developed fire monitoring system
Will help countries to detect fire hotspots in real time

23 August, 2010
Faculty In the News: August 14-20, 2010

16 August, 2010
Faculty In the News: August 7-13, 2010

9 August, 2010
Faculty In the News: July 31-August 6, 2010

3 August, 2010
Paul Shackel, chair and professor of anthropology at Maryland, quoted in Washington Post article on African American history

2 August, 2010
Sociologist Kris Marsh in "Census shows incomes rising, marriages declining for blacks in Prince George's"

2 August, 2010
Faculty In the News: July 24-30, 2010

2 August, 2010
Maryland to begin delivering absentee ballots to voters by Internet

26 July, 2010
Faculty In the News: July 17-23, 2010

19 July, 2010
Faculty In the News: July 10-16, 2010

12 July, 2010
Faculty In the News: July 3-9, 2010

9 July, 2010
Alumnus David Weaver appointed to be the chief spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

9 July, 2010
Faculty In the News: June 26-July 2, 2010

28 June, 2010
Faculty In the News: June 19-25, 2010

22 June, 2010
Anthropologist and Professor Janet Chernela in “Practicing Anthropology in a Time of Crisis: 2009 Year in Review”

22 June, 2010
Archaeologist and Professor Mark Leone in “New Archive to Open Access to Famed Archaeology Program”

22 June, 2010
Professor Judith Freidenberg featured in “Professor to Help Open doors for Immigrants at New CASA”

21 June, 2010
Faculty In the News: June 12-18, 2010

17 June, 2010
Distinguished University Professor George Ritzer to become chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on History of Sociology

14 June, 2010
Turner Family Establishes New Scholarship to Support Undergraduate Economics Students

14 June, 2010
Faculty In the News: June 5-11, 2010

8 June, 2010
Office of International and Executive Programs Receives $2.5 Million Contract from the State of Maryland, Uses Funds to Hire Staff and Cleanup Data in the Child Support System

7 June, 2010
Faculty In the News: May 29-June 4, 2010

1 June, 2010
Faculty In the News: May 22-28, 2010

24 May, 2010
Behavioral and Social Sciences Student, Alumni Awarded Fulbright Grants for 2010-2011

24 May, 2010
Faculty In the News: May 15-21, 2010

24 May, 2010
Criminology and Criminal Justice Professor Peter Reuter Chairs National Research Council Committee
Criminology and Criminal Justice Professor Peter Reuter Chairs National Research Council Committee on Costs Associated with Increased Border Security Enforcement.

20 May, 2010
Sociology Professor John Robinson has won the American Sociological Association's William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award

17 May, 2010
New Fellowship Awarded to Help Students Pursue Careers in Government; University of Maryland Government Professor Paul Herrnson is First Recipient

13 May, 2010
Economics Professor Mark Duggan wins Health Economics Medal

7 May, 2010
Anthropology Professor Michael Paolisso has received a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to study community responses to harmful algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay

4 May, 2010
Anthropology Professor Judith Freidenberg will present “Epistemology of Ethnographic Knowledge: Virtual Versus Conventional Ethnography”

4 May, 2010
The Department of Anthropology has won the Lilly-CTE 2009-2010 Departmental Award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching

30 April, 2010
Sharon Harley, chair of the African American Studies Department, was a featured speaker at the Stand Against Racism Rally

29 April, 2010
The START Center will present "Why Radicalize?" on Thursday, April 29

16 April, 2010
Anthropology Offers New Summer Field School in Applied Urban Ethnographic and Community Health Sciences

16 April, 2010
On the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, START releases relevant data

12 April, 2010
Criminology professor Peter Reuter is chairing a new National Research Council committee

7 April, 2010
Economics major MengMeng Xu has been awarded a coveted Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship

6 April, 2010
Criminology Professor Jean McGloin has been named a Merrill Presidential Scholar

5 April, 2010
Economics Professor Carmen Reinhart will present "The Aftermath of Financial Crises: Global Lessons"

2 April, 2010
Psychology Professor Carl Lejuez will conduct training: Treating depression the old-fashioned way

29 March, 2010
Help shape the future by joining a global conversation on international development and foreign policy with Global Pulse 2010
Help shape the future by joining a global conversation on international development and foreign policy with Global Pulse 2010 and Professor John Grayzel, holder of the Baha’i Chair for World Peace.

29 March, 2010
Criminology Professor Terry Thornberry has been asked to join Scientific Advisory Board

25 March, 2010
The African American Studies Department presents “Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion”

4 March, 2010
Dean’s medal awarded to Distinguished University Professor of sociology Harriet Presser and anthropology Professor Mark Leone

3 March, 2010
Psychology Professor Cynthia Moss has won a Board of Regents' Faculty Award for Scholarship, Research, or Creative Activity

3 March, 2010
Anthropology Professor Janet Chernela has been invited to become an Associate of the National Museum of Language

2 March, 2010
Register now for the 10th Annual Jerry Lee Crime Prevention Symposium

24 February, 2010
New rankings put the University of Maryland’s Department of Economics at 15th in the U.S. and 16th in the world

19 February, 2010
Government and politics students' research published in local newspaper

17 February, 2010
Darlene Iskra, deputy director of the Leadership Education and Development Program, has a new book

22 January, 2010
Dr. Wayne McIntosh has been named associate dean of the college

12 January, 2010
Professor Chris Justice has been appointed chair of the Department of Geography

8 January, 2010
Sociologist Harriet Presser to receive award from the American Sociological Association

30 November, 2009
Economics Professor Enrique G. Mendoza has won a $455,000 grant from the National Science Foundation
Economics Professor Enrique G. Mendoza has won a $455,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a research program on "Macroeconomic Implications of Capital Markets Frictions with Heterogeneous Agents."

19 November, 2009
Baha'i Chair Dialogue on Peace: "Human Security in an Insecure World," Thursday, November 19

12 November, 2009
Anthropology Professor Judith Freidenberg recently released her fourth book, “The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho”

10 November, 2009
Criminology Professor Charles Wellford has been reappointed by Governor Martin O'Malley to the Maryland Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy

10 November, 2009
The American Psychological Association's Division 29 (Society for Psychotherapy) has named an award after psychology Professor Charles Gelso

10 November, 2009
Video of Iran Symposium held on November 6 is available

5 November, 2009
College receives $1 million gift to establish Gibran Chair for Values and Peace
Lisa and George Zakhem establish the Gibran Chair for Values and Peace with a $1 million gift.

4 November, 2009
Dean John Townshend is the 2009 recipient of the Office of International Programs' Landmark Award

4 November, 2009
Government and politics graduate student Marcus Afzali wins a College Park City Council seat

28 October, 2009
Criminology Professor Denise Gottfredson has won the Academy of Experimental Criminology's Joan McCord Award

25 October, 2009
The university announces the Spring 2010 pilot of the “I” Series courses, which begin the transformation of general education at the university

15 October, 2009
Faculty recognized at convocation

12 October, 2009
David Alan Harris to present keynote address for the Semester on Peace

12 October, 2009
Economics faculty have been awarded a $400,000 grant by the National Science Foundation

6 October, 2009
President Obama announced his intention to nominate Professor John Laub to the position of director of the National Institute of Justice

6 October, 2009
Laure Brooks selected as the recipient of the 2009 Outstanding Faculty Educator Award

2 October, 2009
Department of Economics applauds awards to a graduate and a student

28 September, 2009
African American Studies Department plans workshop series during Legislative Black Caucus Weekend in Annapolis

21 September, 2009
Maryland Community Services Locator (MDCSL) completes statewide expansion

21 September, 2009
The Department of African American Studies is celebrating its 40th anniversary

16 September, 2009
Criminology professor Terence Thornberry has been awarded $408,410 from the National Institutes of Health

11 September, 2009
Alumnus Craig Thompson's book, "The ABCs of Black Inventors: A Children's Guide" has been published

8 September, 2009
Geography professor Chris Justice has been awarded $388,145 from NOAA for a project titled "Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites”

27 August, 2009
The summer 2009 edition of the college's electronic newsletter is available

17 August, 2009
Dr. Wayne McIntosh has accepted the position of interim Associate Dean of the College of Behavioral & Social Sciences

16 August, 2009
Sam Goward named Interim Chair of the Department of Geography

4 August, 2009
The college welcomes three new faculty

3 August, 2009
Professor Suheil Bushrui was a guest on National Public Radio's "Journey of Faith" Tuesday, August 4

17 July, 2009
Psychology Professor Carl Lejuez has been awarded $750,000 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to test his anxiety reduction program for heroin users

15 July, 2009
In its recent report on jobs of the future, President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers based its projections largely on Inforum's employment by industry forecasts

13 July, 2009
An archaeology field school led by assistant professor Stephen Brighton is surveying an area in Baltimore County that was settled by Irish immigrants, and The Baltimore Sun wrote an article about the project

26 June, 2009
Psychology Professor Carl Lejuez is the 2009 recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division 50 – Addictions

11 June, 2009
Catalina Kopetz from the Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research, has received a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse

10 June, 2009
Graduate School makes awards to College of Behavioral and Social Sciences' students

10 June, 2009
The Center for Heritage Resource Studies invites you to follow its Bladensburg Archaeology Project, which is now featured on www.sexyarchaeology.org

9 June, 2009
Economics Professor Mark Duggan will spend the '09-'10 academic year working on health care policy as a Senior Economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisers

22 May, 2009
Economics Professor Larry Ausubel has been invited to join President Barack Obama in the White House Rose Garden as he signs the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act into law on Friday, May 22

22 May, 2009
The 2009 Edition of the Essential Speech, Language, and Hearing Bookshelf web site includes two titles from the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences

22 May, 2009
Summer Research Initiative kicks off its 11th year

20 May, 2009
The Center for American Politics and Citizenship has launched the Maryland Elections Center Web site

20 May, 2009
Criminology professor Denise Gottfredson has been awarded the Academy of Experimental Criminology's Joan McCord Award for excellence in experimental research

20 May, 2009
Government and politics professor Fred Alford has won the Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award

5 May, 2009
Applications for the position of Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences are now being accepted

29 April, 2009
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences student and CIVICUS graduate wins Udall Scholarship

29 April, 2009
Students in Psychology of Communication & Persuasion class put YouTube to good use

28 April, 2009
Geography chair John Townshend has been made an Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom's Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society

24 April, 2009
Distinguished University Professor of sociology Harriet Presser will receive the Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association Family Section

23 April, 2009
Sally Simpson, chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology

23 April, 2009
College celebrates "U.S. News & World Report" top-ranked programs

16 April, 2009
Psychology Professor Carl W. Lejuez receives $400,000 from the National Institutes of Health
Psychology Professor Carl W. Lejuez and Assistant Professor Laura MacPherson receive $400,000 from the National Institutes of Health - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - to study adolescent alcohol use.

13 April, 2009
Government and politics student Steven Glickman elected Student Government Association president

3 April, 2009
Geography professor Erik Kasischke has been awarded $230,000 from NASA to study the vulnerability and resiliency of Arctic and sub-Arctic landscapes

31 March, 2009
The Office of International and Executive Programs is awarded another grant from the Maryland Department of Human Resources

24 February, 2009
Suheil Bushrui, the Kahlil Gibran Chair for Peace and Values, has published "The Little Book of Love"

17 February, 2009
Sociology professor John Pease wins national award

17 February, 2009
Economics professor Wallace Oates becomes distinguished university professor

3 February, 2009
Government and politics professor Eric Uslaner's book, The Moral Foundations of Trust, wins international praise

30 January, 2009
Biology professor Katrina Macleod and hearing and speech sciences professor Monita Chatterjee win a grant

21 January, 2009
Anthropology Dept. efforts pay off as New Philadelphia, Ill. is named a National Historic Landmark

21 January, 2009
Criminology Professor David Kirk wins two National Institute of Justice grants

15 January, 2009
Professor Sandra Gordon-Salant wins Jerger Career Award for Distinguished Research

13 January, 2009
Office of International & Executive Programs wins $5 million contract

5 January, 2009
The College has two new Distinguished Scholar-Teachers

19 November, 2008
Sam Goward Wins Pecora Award

4 November, 2008
Sally Simpson wins Distinguished Scholar Award

4 November, 2008
Students win Spirit of Maryland Award
Both Spirit of Maryland Award recipients are from the College of Behavioral & Social Sciences.

24 October, 2008
"Series on Contemporary Chinese Law"

24 October, 2008
Research Leaders
College research leaders bring in research funding.