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Research centers such as the Maryland Population Research Center, the Center for Research on Military Organization, and the Center for Innovation offer students and faculty abundant opportunities to collaborate. The Department also houses the India Human Development Survey.

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Monday, November 16
12:15: Art/Sociology 1101

Meredith Kleycamp
"Heading to the Field: Using Experiments to Understand Veterans' Employment Challenges."

In the Spotlight

Patricia Hill Collins presided over the 104th meeting of the American Sociological Association August 8-11. Pat spoke on "the new politics of community" and challenged us to consider how all of our work is informed by the concept of community.

The Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology will award Bill Falk the 2009 Robert Ezra Park Award for Sociological Practice at its annual meeting October 8-10 in San Antonio. The award recognizes Bill's work on community, especially in rural areas and the American South.  

Harriet Presser received the Distinguished Career Award of the ASA Section on the Family. The award is given to recognize the collective career contributions in the field of the sociology of the family.

The National Science Foundation has selected Stanley Presser to serve a three-year term on the Advisory Committee for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate.

The ASA section on Global and Transnational Sociology has elected George Ritzer its first chair. George has previously served as chair of the Theory Section and the Section on Organizations and Occupations. George's book, Globalization: A Basic Text was recently published by Wiley.