Universty at Albany

Campus Update

By (May 21, 2008)

Sociology Department News

University at Albany-SUNY sociologists are winning awards, and teaching or conducting research internationally.

Hayward Derrick Horton received the 2008 Outstanding Community Service Award from the Black Caucus of the Public Employee Federation for his research on Diversity in the New York State Government Workforce.

Jeff Napierala has been accepted as one of about 20 graduate students to participate this summer in the Harvard Manchester Summer Workshop at the University of Manchester on Immigration and Social Change in Britain and the U.S.

Angie Y. Chung is spending the 2008 fall semester as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at Yonsei University, Korea.

Steve Messner spent the 2008 spring semester at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, Germany, where he was a member of a research group studying the control of violence.

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