Eric McDaniel (Cohort 15) is the co-recipient of an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Political Research Quarterly Best Article Award (with co-author Christopher Ellison) from the Western Political Science Association for their June 2008 Political Research Quarterly Article: "God’s Party? Race, Religion, and Partisanship over Time".
Rene Almeling (Cohort 15) has received an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Viviana Zelizer Award from the American Sociology Association's Section on Economic Sociology for her article "Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Donation, Sperm Donation, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material".
Helen Marrow (Cohort 15) has received the 2008 American Sociological Association Dissertation Award for the best PhD dissertation for the calendar year for, "Southern Becoming: Immigrant Incorporation and Race Relations in the Rural U.S. South."
Tim Büthe (Cohort 14) has published, "The Globalization of Health and Safety Standards: Delegation of Regulatory Authority in the SPS Agreement of the 1994 Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization" in Law and Contemporary Problems.
Robert Mickey (Cohort 13) has received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.
Tony Chen (Cohort 12) has received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan.
MARIA RENDON received her Ph.D. in sociology and social policy from Harvard University in 2009. Her primary research interests are in the fields of immigration, urban poverty, and social policy. Her dissertation examined the role of high poverty neighborhoods in shaping school and work outlooks and decisions of male, young adults who are children of Mexican immigrants.
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