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April 18, 2022

Jeff Nicklas, MS, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology in the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, received $16,150 from the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Studies Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF STS DDRIG) for his project, The Impact of Video Games, Identity, and Narrative on Understandings of Mental Health. In this project, Jeff is exploring how interactions between video games that convey mental health narratives and those who play them shape mental health experiences and knowledges.

April 12, 2022

Rebecca Wolfe, current Sociology PhD candidate,  presented research on job conditions for transgender and non-binary workers at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America.

March 09, 2022

Erin Johnson, current PhD candidate, has an article coming out in Contraception: An International Reproductive Health Journal.  Her article, Healthcare Access and Contraceptive Use among Adult Women in the United States in 2017, is  currently available online ahead of print, here.  This article is being published open access thanks to the UC Libraries agreement with Elsevier and started its life as her final project for the quantitative methods course (S289a/b) series.

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