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Sonalde Desai Retires After 30 Years, Establishes New Research Fund

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Patricia Hill Collins Receives $1M Berggruen Philosophy Prize

Retiring Professor Joan Kahn Establishes New Fund to Support Future SOCY Students

SOCY’s Sonalde Desai Named AAAS Fellow

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SOCY Faculty Offer Advice for Success

Professor Ray Honored with Public Understanding of Sociology Award

Sonalde Desai Elected President of the Population Association of America

Dawn Dow's "Mothering While Black" wins William J. Goode Book Award

IHDS Receives Gates Foundation Award

Events

MPRC Seminar

Héctor Alcalá from UMD-School of Public Health will present "Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences: What does this mean for health care utilization?"

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Talk with Lincoln Quillian of Northwestern University

On November 19th at 12pm in room 4103 of the Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building, Dr. Lincoln Quillian will give a talk titled "Digital Redlining in College Recruitment."

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News

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Long Doan Receives 2025 Postdoc Mentor of the Year Award

Long Doan is one of two recipients of the 2025 UMD Postdoc Mentor of the Year Award.

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Collin Mueller Awarded Pilot Grant from the National Institute on Aging

Collin Mueller was recently awarded a pilot grant from the National Institute on Aging as part of the newly funded Southern Population Aging Research Center.

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