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Editor:
Tonya Allen
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PRInformation
Fall 2005
Alumni News
Kaari Baluja is Senior User Experience Researcher, eBay, Inc.
Jacinta Bronte-Tinkew was recently promoted to Study Area Director at Child Trends. She was also recently awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on which she is the Principal Investigator, entitled "Food Insecurity and Outcomes for Infants and Toddlers in the ECLS-B." This is a two-year study that will examine the effects of food insecurity on health and nutrition, cognitive and language development and social and emotional development of young children in the ECLS-B.
Jacob Cheadle is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research Fellow at the University of Michigan.
Netra Chhetri recently began a postdoctoral position at the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University.
Claudia Galindo has taken a postdoctoral position at the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships, Johns Hopkins University.
Tesfayi Gebreselassie is Population Fellow, Measure DHS, ORC Macro International.
Bridget Goosby has accepted a National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Social Research in the Program for Research on Black Americans at the University of Michigan. In her position she is conducting research that focuses on adolescent mental health and behavior in the context of poverty, with a specific focus on the influence of parental well-being as a mediating influence on adolescent outcomes and their transitions to adulthood.
Sandra Hanson spent the spring 2005 semester on sabbatical in Krakow, Poland as a visiting scholar with the Department of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University. Hanson was invited to give a lecture on "Catholicism, Country, and Gender: Catholic Women in Poland and the U.S." to the Polish Sociological Society. She also gave a talk on "Sport as Resource: Gender, Sport, and Achievement" as a part of a conference on Social Capital at the University of Opole, Poland.
Tera Hurt was recently appointed Research Scientist/Project Director for the Strong African American Marriages (ProSAAM) Study at the University of Georgia. The project is focused on strengthening marital relationships among 500 couples residing in northeast Georgia. Based on the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP), the curriculum also promotes strategies for handling racism and regularly praying for one's partner to strengthen marital relationships and increase individual resilience.
Richard Krannich recently began a 4-year term as Executive Director of the International Association for Society and Natural Resources; and was elected 2006-07 President of the Rural Sociological Society.
Cassandra Logan is research associate, Child Trends.
William McAuley is Professor of Health Policy, George Mason University.
Flora Nankhuni is David E. Bell Research Fellow at Harvard University Center for Population and Development.
Nimfa Ogena is Associate Professor, University of the Philippines Population Institute (UPPI).
Gary Peters recently published the 8th edition of Population Geography: Problems, Concepts, and Prospects, with co-author Robert Larkin.
Manat Suwan is full professor in the Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
Janet Wilmoth was elected a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
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