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Rashon Lane: 2019 Beth Hess Award Honorable Mention

The Beth Hess Award was established in 2005 to support first generation college students who began their academic careers in a community college, have faced significant obstacles, are committed to teaching and mentoring other first-generation students, and exemplify Beth’s commitment to…

Torres LA Times Op-Ed "My sisters and the long, terrifying shadow of mass violence"

Op-Ed: My sisters and the long, terrifying shadow of mass violence   The referenced media source is missing and needs to be re-embedded.     By Stacy Torres Aug. 11, 2019

Torres Receives Bronze Award from Innovative Research on Aging

The Innovative Research on Aging Awards recognize excellent applied research that offers important implications for the senior living industry. Created to inspire next practices, the annual awards honor groups and individuals committed to bringing research to real life, thereby improving the…

Torres recipient of the William Foote Whyte Award

Dr. Stacy Torres is the 2019 recipient of the William Foote Whyte Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology. The award recognizes a scholar who has made notable contributions to sociological practice and public sociology for the…

Harknett featured in May 2019 Science of Caring: How Unstable Work Schedules Affect Individuals and Families

How Unstable Work Schedules Affect Individuals and Families   May 2019 Diana Austin “A lot of the instability in family life comes from uncertainty about time,” says sociology professor Kristen Harknett, of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the UC San Francisco…

Pinderhughes Pitches UCSF as Anchor Institution

Initiative Will Leverage UCSF’s Economic Power to Promote Health Equity in San Francisco By Lisa Cisneros and Dan Fost Building on its 150-year public service mission, UC San Francisco announced its intention to leverage more of its economic power and collaborative partnerships to improve the…

Torres LA Times Op-Ed "Happy 'Other' Mother's Day"

Stacy Torres has a new op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times, "Happy 'Other' Mother's Day," which celebrates the contributions of "other" mothers, such as aunts, teachers, grandmothers, and other community members, and mentions the work of sociologists Patricia Hill Collins, Carol Stack, and…

Welcome to New Faculty: Stella Aguinaga Bialous

SBS is thrilled to announce that Stella Aguinaga Bialous will be joining our ladder-rank faculty and teaching in health policy. Stella is a native of Brazil and has been working internationally on cancer and tobacco control policy for several years.

Naina Khanna Guest Writer for Huffington Post on Kavanaugh Confirmation

I Confronted Mitch McConnell And Interrupted Susan Collins. And I’ll Do It Again. Naina Khanna Guest Writer “How many stories do you have to hear before you believe survivors?” I asked Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last Tuesday.

Alumni News: Ergorin given Bipartisan Congressional Staff Award from the Alliance for Health Policy

Sociology doctoral program alum (class of  2004) Melanie Anne Egorin, Ph.D., deputy staff director, House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health has been awarded a Bipartisan Congressional Staff Award from the Alliance for Health Policy.