Genetics

精品SM在线影片 lands funding for advanced study of gene-environment interactions

Aug. 29, 2017

Postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students to increase their knowledge of demography and genetics in one of the first programs of its kind.

Aaron

Biking bad

Aug. 4, 2017

A 精品SM在线影片 doctoral candidate is studying 鈥榮cofflaw bicycling鈥 and the sociological explanations of the cultural divide on the road.

Ade

PhD candidate studies fertility, maternal health in Tanzania

June 9, 2017

精品SM在线影片 doctoral candidate Adenife Modile, who studies fertility and maternal health worldwide, travels to Tanzania this month as a Population Reference Bureau fellow.

Harrison

Sociology prof probes bureaucratic causes of environmental justice failures

April 25, 2017

With environmental justice programs showing minimal success in bringing equality to low-income communities, Jill Harrison is actively exploring bureaucratic causes, and she has won a fellowship from American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), which will support her work.

sex ed

Let鈥檚 (not) talk about sex

Feb. 28, 2017

CU sociologist鈥檚 book examines society鈥檚 mixed messages to teens about sex In the small, rural Ohio town where Stefanie Mollborn grew up, the prevailing message to teenagers about sex was straightforward: Don鈥檛 do it, because it鈥檚 morally wrong. In wealthier, liberal places like Boulder, the message tends to be different:...

HIV

Love, Money, and HIV

Dec. 22, 2016

Mojola argues that the entanglement of love, money, and the transformation of girls into 鈥渃onsuming women鈥 lies at the heart of women鈥檚 coming-of-age and health crises. At once engaging and compassionate, this text is an incisive analysis of gender, sexuality, and health in Africa.

scale

Genes may help propel women to see themselves as overweight

Dec. 13, 2016

Researchers at the 精品SM在线影片 have identified a genetic component that could help explain why women are more likely to perceive themselves as overweight than similarly proportioned men.

Dave Woodall and Alexis Martin Woodalll

Alum forgoes career in courtroom to become L.A. chef

Dec. 5, 2016

Dave Woodall, once an aspiring lawyer, says 精品SM在线影片 education gave him the tools to open a from-scratch, comfort restaurant that 鈥榬ecalls glamour of mid-century Hollywood.鈥

Power plant

Boosting power plants鈥 efficiency can cause emissions rebound, study finds

Nov. 21, 2016

Increasing the efficiency of power plants鈥 efficiency is often assumed to be an effective means of reducing carbon emissions. However, an empirical analysis of plants鈥 efficiency and emission led by a 精品SM在线影片 sociology professor casts some doubt on that conventional wisdom.

Prison

Why are gang members disproportionately placed in solitary confinement?

Nov. 15, 2016

Members of criminal gangs are disproportionately placed in restrictive housing when they are imprisoned in the United States, but the evidence supporting this practice is 鈥渨eak,鈥 says criminologist David Pyrooz, who advocates more rigorous research on whether widespread isolaton of gang members is based on the best evidence.

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