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…
Op-Ed: My sisters and the long, terrifying shadow of mass violence
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By Stacy Torres
Aug. 11, 2019
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.