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January 31, 2008. Eric Klinenberg's (Fellow 2008) 2002 book
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago forms the basis for a play by Steven Simoncic called
Heat Wave, which opens February 21 at
Pegasus Players in Chicago.
January 10, 2008. Anthony Bryk (Fellow 2003) will be the president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching effective August 2008. He replaces Lee Shulman (Fellow 1980).
January 9, 2008. Sam Gosling (Fellow 2004) is the recipient of the 2008
APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to
Psychology in the area of Animal Behavior/Comparative Psychology.
January 8, 2008. Scott Page (Fellow 2008) was interviewed in today's
New York Times on his views on affirmative action, and his recently published book, “The Difference: How the Power of
Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools and Societies” which uses mathematical modeling and case
studies to show how variety in staffing produces organizational
strength.
January 4 and 11, 2008. Kathleen Hall Jamieson (Fellow 2004) was a guest on the
Bill Moyers Journal, discussing the results of the Iowa Caucus.
December 22, 2007. Eric Klinenberg's (Fellow 2008) radio project, based on his current research about living alone in America, will air this weekend on NPR's
This American Life, and after that it will be available online at
www.thislife.org.
December 20, 2007. Lisa Keister (Fellow 2007) was a guest on NPR's
Talk of the Nation, discussing how wealth factors into religious beliefs.
November 21, 2007.
Work done by
Eszter Hargittai
(Fellow
2007) at the Center last year framed her research paper "Whose Space? Differences Among Users and
Non-Users of Social Network Sites" which appeared in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication this fall. It was also reported in the Chicago Sun Times and
USA Today, and
she was interviewed live on the Chicago PBS station WTTW .
November 19, 2007. The Design of Future Things by
Donald Norman
(Fellow 1974) was reviewed in Time magazine. He explains why bad design prevents
technology from translating into an easier life.
November 14, 2007. Victor Davis Hanson (Fellow 1993) was today awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush at a
White House Ceremony "for his scholarship on civilizations past and present."
November 1, 2007. Four CASBS Fellows have been elected members of AAAS for 2007:
Mark C. Baker (Fellow 1994)
Lawrence D. Bobo (Fellow 1989 & 2008)
Karen S. Cook (Fellow 1999)
Guillermina Jasso (Fellow 2000)
October 24, 2007. Jim Fries (Fellow 1979 &
2001) has been named the Society of Public Health Education's 2007
honorary fellow - the organization's highest award to a
nonmember - for his work on rheumatology. He will be honored during the society's annual meeting
in Washington, D.C. on November 3.
October 22, 2007. Bob Simon (Fellow 1977) has been named to the list of
100 Most Influential Sports Educators by
the Institute for International Sport (IIS). Among other honorees are
Andre Agassi, Tiger Woods, and sportscaster Bob Costas.
October 17, 2007. Frank Sulloway (Fellow 1999) and
Robert Zajonc (Fellow 1976) were quoted in today's article in Time magazine, called
The Power of Birth Order examined the role of birth order in determining IQ, height, weight and more.
October 15, 2007. The Royal Swedish Academy has awarded the
2007 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences jointly to
Leo Hurwicz (Fellow 1956), Eric Maskin, and Roger Myerson for their work on mechanism design theory.
October 15, 2007. Today's Newsweek magazine was all about
Women & Power. Among the women profiled was
Amy Gutmann (Fellow 2001), President, University of Pennsylvania.
October 10, 2007. Robert Sutton's (Fellow 1987, 1995 & 2003) book
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't won a Quill Award for best business book. The
Quill Awards celebrate the best books of the year in nineteen popular
categories, ranging from romance to biography to graphic novels. This year's Quill Book Award winners were announced on
The Today Show
with a Book of the Year selected by popular vote. The winning authors
in all of the categories will be seen at the Awards Program on NBC
Saturday, October 27, 2007.
October 10, 2007. James Fishkin (Fellow 1998 &
2002) conceived the methodology of Deliberative Polling while a
Center Fellow. He has used the process more than 22 times in many
countries. This weekend in Brussels, he has assembled a
representative sample of the EU's residents who will deliberate issues.
Click here for more information.
October 9, 2007. Research on sickle cell anemia by
Keith Wailoo (Fellow 2007) and one of his books was referred to in the
New York Times article
October 8, 2007. Keith
Wailoo (Fellow 2007) has been elected to the
Institute of Medicine, one of four learned academies
that advise the government on scientific matters. The IOM is recognized as a national resource for independent,
scientifically informed analysis and recommendations on issues relating
to human health. Its members are frequently called upon to advise the
federal government on issues involving medical care, and to shape
policies affecting public health.
October 3, 2007. On October 13, Albert Camarillo (Fellow 1983, 1995) and his family will receive the 2007 La Familia Award, awarded by the Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley.
September 17, 2007. Ron Barr (Fellow 2001), who has studied infant cries, was quoted in an
article called "Crybabies, solving the colic conundrum," in today's New Yorker magazine.
September 13, 2007. Elizabeth Loftus (Fellow 1979) has been elected
Humanist Laureate by the International Academy of
Humanism, and will be presented with the award in November.
September 11, 2007. Wim van der Linden (Fellow 2003) will
receive an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Social Science of
Umea University, Sweden. The award ceremony will be on October
20, 2007.
September 10, 2007. Frank Sulloway (Fellow 1999) was quoted on the front page of the
Los Angeles
Times, in an article entitled
Study finds left-wing brain, right-wing brain, on research he has conducted on political
conservatism and liberalism.
September 10, 2007. The prospect of non-military national service and how it could be structured in the U.S. is the topic of "
A Time to Serve" in Time Magazine. It referenced
Robert Putnam's (Fellow 1975, 1989) book
Bowling Alone, and his new study on community engagement.
September 5, 2007. Webb Keane (Fellow 2004) will give the
Edvard Westermarck Memorial Lecture in Helskini in
October. In view of Westermarck's founding role in both disciplines, this
lecture is given annually by either an anthropologist or sociologist, in
rotation.
September 5, 2007. Ruth Marcus (Fellow 1979) has been awarded the
Lauener Prize
for an Outstanding Oeuvre from the Lauener Foundation for Analytical
Philosophy. The award ceremony and a symposium honoring Marcus's
work will take place in Bern, Switzerland in 2008.
September 5, 2007. Mitch Greenlick (Fellow 1996) is in his third term as a member of the
Oregon House of Representatives and chair of the House Committee on Health Care.
September 3, 2007. Forbes magazine published an "On My Mind" piece by Patricia Williams (Fellow 1994) on the differences of opinion between generations on civil liberties.
September, 2007. Richard
Thompson (Fellow
1979) will receive the 2007 Karl Spencer Lashley award from the
American Philosophical Society for achievement in neuroscience on
November 9 at the society's
annual general meeting in Philadelphia.
August 27, 2007. Why do we, as consumers, tend to go
with what we know? Research and a new book by
Gerd Gigerenzer
(Fellow 1990) on this topic were highlighted in an article called
"Why we buy" in today's Time magazine.
August 22, 2007. Bob Sutton (Fellow 1987, 1995 & 2003) and
Steve Levitt (Fellow 2003) made
Business Week's list of the top ten business school professors.
August 21, 2007. The accuracy of statistical model prediction is reported in
"How computers routed the experts" in the
Financial Times. Work by
Kevin Quinn (Fellow 2007) on Supreme Court voting and
Orley Ashenfelter (Fellow 1990) on predicting the quaity of wine was cited in support of this claim. Also mentioned is the book
Freakonomics by
Steve Levitt (Fellow 2003).
August 14, 2007. An op-ed by David Brooks in the
New York Times,
Truck Stop Confidential, referenced
Michele Lamont's (Fellow 2002) research on social structure and her book
The Dignity of Working Men.
August, 2007. At the APA convention in San Francisco, Phil Kendall
(Fellow 1981) received the 2007 Distinguished Research Contribution
award presented by the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent
Psychology division of the APA.
August 2007. Also at the APA convention, Irv Gottesman (Fellow 1988) received the Gold Medal
for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology from the American
Psychological Association.
July 31, 2007. Whether or not the subconscious can be primed is the subject of an article in the New York Times,
Who's Minding the Mind, which referred to a paper written by
John Bargh (Fellow 2002). The evidence was commented on by
Roy Baumeister (Fellow 2002).
July 23, 2007. The
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
has awarded a three-year grant to Nobel Prize winner
Edmund S. Phelps
(Fellow 1970) for a research project that examines entrepreneurship and innovation in
capitalist systems. Phelps, who received the Nobel in
economics in 2006, will build on and test his theory of "dynamism,"
which explains the difference in economic growth between countries.
July 20, 2007. Eliot Aronson (Fellow 1971 & 1978) was a guest on NPR's
Talk of the Nation today discussing "Why It's Hard to Admit to Being Wrong."
July 19, 2007. Frank Sulloway (Fellow 1999) was interviewed on
The Colbert
Report, in connection with his book
Born to Rebel
(1996), and more recent research on birth order and human
behavior.
July 19, 2007. Two former Fellows were elected to a
Fellowship in the British Academy for 2007.
Susan Carey (Fellow 1985) was elected a Corresponding Fellow and
Carole Pateman (Fellow 1985) was elected an Ordinary Fellow. An Admissions Ceremony will be held on September 25, 2007.
July 19, 2007. Susan Athey (Fellow 2005) is the 2007 recipient of the
John Bates Clark Medal. The award
recognizes Athey for her fundamental contributions to a
remarkably wide set of topics, ranging from economic theory to
empirical economics to econometrics.
July 17, 2007. George Loewenstein
(Fellow 1998) was one of the presenters at a conference at Princeton
University titled
"Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charitable
Giving." The event was paid for by the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation and sponsored by the university's Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs.
July 16, 2007. An article by
Dan Olweus (Fellow 1987)
"A Profile of Bullying"
appeared in Educational Leadership. Evaluation of the effects of
the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program showed more than a 50% reduction
in bully/victim problems, and the program is now offered on a large
scale to Norwegian elementary and junior high schools. It is also
one of several programs being offered in the U.S.
July 13, 2007. Jeffrey Pfeffer (Fellow 1999) was interviewed by
Guy Kawasaki on his book
What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom about Management.
July 5, 2007. A new book by
Gerd Gigerenzer (Fellow 1990) called
Gut Feelings was reviewed in today's
Time Magazine.
June, 2007. David Buss (Fellow 1990), and his investigations on human mating behavior, were the subject of an article in
Texasmonthly.com, titled "Human Mate Selection is a Many-Spendored Thing."
June 28, 2007. Dan Gilbert (Fellow 1992) was interviewed by Stephen Colbert on his new book
Stumbling on Happiness. A video of the interview can be found at
http://www.colbertnation.com/?m=200706.
The book won the Royal Academy's General Book Prize
for best science book of the year. It has been on the NY Times
bestseller list for 15 weeks and has been translated into 30 languages.
June 26, 2007.
Elihu Katz
(Fellow 2006) gave the opening talk at the Regional Meeting of
World Association for Public Opinion Research
in memory of Seymour Martin Lipset (Fellow 1956 &
1973). The meeting was organized jointly by Universities of Haifa
and Jerusalem.
William
Julius Wilson (Fellow
1982) Clayborne Carson (Fellow 1994)
Claude M. Steele (Fellow
1995) Robin D.G.
Kelley (Fellow 1998)
Lawrence Bobo (Fellow
1989) Patricia J. Williams (Fellow 1994)
James Comer (Fellow 1977 & 1995) David Levering Lewis
(Fellow 1981)
Thomas Sowell (Fellow
1977) John Hope Franklin (Fellow 1974)
June 13, 2007. Jonathan Rodden's (Fellow 2007) book, Hamilton’s Paradox: The Promise and Peril of Fiscal
Federalism (Cambridge University Press, 2006), was selected as the winner of the Gregory Luebbert award for the best book in
comparative politics published in 2005 and 2006. Hamilton's Paradox was
selected from a field of over 60 books. The formal award will be made
at the American Political Science Association meeting in late August.
June 7, 2007.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City has announced that Paul L. Joskow
(Fellow 1986) will be its new president, effective January 1, 2008. He will
succeed Ralph E. Gomory, who has served in the position since 1989 and
will remain with the foundation as director of special programs.
June 6, 2007. Alejandro Toledo (Distinguished Visitor in Residence 2007) wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times titled
Silence = Despotism on poverty, inequality and exclusion in Latin America.
June 4, 2007. Paul Rozin (Fellow 1986 & 1996) has studied
"The Ewww Factor"
(or the science of disgust), and two of his former students suspected
this had implications for product placement in the supermarket.
June 4, 2007. An Education Special Report in Time Magazine called
How to Fix No Child Left Behind mentioned work by
David Berliner (Fellow 1988) on how schools cheat on the tests.
May 28, 2007. Elihu Katz (Fellow 2006) was honored with an honorary degree at a seminar at the University of Rome
"La Sapienza." The seminar, Elihu Katz and Media Studies: A Scientific and Professional History featured panels and
many speakers from the Sociology and Communication Science faculty at
the University. Elihu (in full Medieval regalia) delivered a lecture titled: "Once
upon a Time in America...Mass Communication Research".
May 23, 2007. Robert C. Darnton (Fellow 1974) has been chosen to lead the Harvard University
Library. He will replace long-time library director Sidney Verba
(Fellow 1964) on July 1 and assume Verba’s post as the Pforzheimer University
professor.
May 19, 2007. An op-ed column in Saturday’s Times cites
Lisa Keister’s (Fellow 2007) research on the increase in personal wealth among non-Hispanic
white Catholics and its causes.
May 18, 2007. Penn State's Board of Trustees granted an honorary doctor of humane letters to Lee S.
Shulman (Fellow 1980), president of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching. Shulman will receive an honorary degree in May 2008 at the
College of Education commencement ceremony.
May 14, 2007. Harriet Presser (Fellow 1987,
1992, 2004) has been selected by the American Association of University
Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation Board of Directors as the recipient
of the 2007 Founders Distinguished Senior Scholar Award for her
lifetime of college and university teaching, her publication record,
and her impact on women in the profession and the community.
May 7, 2007. Diversity training has little to no
effect on the racial and gender mix of a company's top ranks according
to a study conducted by a team that included
Frank Dobbin (Fellow 2003), which was the basis of an article in
Time Magazine.
May 7, 2007. The awards committee of the ASA methodology section awarded Stanley Lieberson (Fellow 1996) with the 2007 Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for a career of distinguished contributions to
sociological methodology.
May 2, 2007. Linda Darling-Hammond (Fellow 1998 & 2007) examined the "No Child Left Behind"
law, its consequences and prospects for improvement in
The Nation.
May 2007. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (CASBS Trustee) is the winner of
WIRED magazine's 2007 Rave Award for Education, for creating a public school curriculum that lets students study the
science behind their own DNA and reconstruct their own genealogy.
April 27, 2007. Five CASBS Fellows were among the members elected to the
American Philosophical Society for 2007:
Susan E. Carey (Fellow 1985)
Robert O. Keohane (Fellow 1978, 1988, 2005)
Stanley Lieberson (Fellow 1996)
David R. Mayhew (Fellow 1996)
Jack Rakove (Fellow 2007)
April 27, 2007. The
American Psychological Foundation will award
Irving Gottesman
(Fellow 1988) with its Gold Medal for Life Achievement in the Science
of Pscyhology at the August meeting of the American Psychological
Association in San Francisco.
April 26, 2007. In a special issue on
neuroscience and neuroculture, Slate online magazine featured an
article by
Alison Gopnik (Fellow 2004) called
Cells That Read Minds? What the Myth of Mirror Neurons gets Wrong about the Human Brain.
April 23, 2007. Paula Fass (Fellow 1992 & 2007) will be
installed in June as president of the Society for the History of Children and Youth.
April 19, 2007. Congratulations to seven former Fellows who are 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship winners:
Lawrence D. Bobo (Fellow 1989)
Daniel Carpenter (Fellow 2004)
Tanya Marie Lurhmann (Fellow 1995)
Arthur Lupia (Fellow 2000)
Victor Nee (Fellow 1997)
Daniel T. Rodgers (Fellow 1992)
Pamela Barnhouse Walters (Fellow 2006)
April 16, 2007. Steven Levitt (Fellow 2003) was included in Time Magazine as one of the "bunch of wonks" who are making us rethink economics.
April 1, 2007. Jutta Allmendinger (Fellow 1997) today assumed the presidency of the
Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). She follows
Jürgen Kocka (Fellow 1995).
March/April 2007. Stanford Magazine featured
Edward Tufte (Fellow 1974) and the popularity of his course
Presenting
Data and Information on how to present information graphically.
March 31, 2007. David M. Kennedy (Fellow 1987) received the Distinguished Service Award from the
Organization of American Historians at its 100th annual meeting in Minneapolis.
March 30, 2007. Rochel
Gelman (Fellow 1978 & 1985) received an award for
Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development from the
Society
for Research in Child Development (SRCD) at their biennial meeting in Boston.
March 27, 2007. Kris Gutierrez (Fellow
2007) is the 2007 recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award awarded
by the Committee on Scholars of Color in Education of the
American
Educational Research Association.
Jeffrey C. Alexander (Fellow 1999) for The Civil Sphere published by Oxford University Press
David Brion Davis (Fellow 1973) for Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World published by Oxford University Press
Keith Wailoo (Fellow 2007) (w/Stephen Pemberton) for The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease published by The Johns Hopkins University Press
March 8, 2007. Hal Luft's (Fellow 2007) ideas for a hybrid health care system were included in
David Lazarus' column in the San Francisco Chronicle.
March 7, 2007. Philip Zimbardo (Fellow 1972) capped a 50-year teaching
career today with
a memorable lecture on the psychology of evil,
the subject of his forthcoming book
The Lucifer Effect.
March 5, 2007. Today's
Washington University's
Record
featured an interview with
John Baugh (Fellow 1989) and
how he came to study linguistics.
March, 2007. Better Homes and Gardens magazine featured Roy Baumeister (Fellow 2002) in an article about focusing on children's self-control rather than self-esteem.
February 27, 2007. The
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) presented
Linda Darling-Hammond
(Fellow 1998 & 2007) with the Margaret B. Lindsey Award for
Distinguished Research in Teacher Education at the Assocation's 59th
Annual Meeting in New York City.
February 25, 2007. Keith Wailoo (Fellow 2007) wrote an op-ed piece on
The Consequential Case of Jesica Santillan, which was published in today's Raleigh News and Observer.
February 8, 2007. Dolores Hayden (Fellow 2007) received the
2006 Margarita McCoy Award. This
award is made by the ACSP Faculty Women's Interest Group and recognizes
outstanding contributions toward the advancement of women in planning at
institutions of higher education through service, teaching, and/or
research.
February 5,
2007. Robert Simon (Fellow 1977) has
been named to the advisory and editorial board for the NCAA Scholarly
Colloquium on College Sports. He is the only representative from a
Division III college on the 13-member group. More...
February 5,
2007. Steven Mintz (Fellow
2007) was quoted in the online magazine Salon
in an article entitled “Spanking mad: A California bill could make
spanking a crime. But when did a swat on the bum become child abuse?
And how far should the government go in telling parents how to raise
their children?”
February 5, 2007. Stephen Shortell (Fellow 2007) participated in KALW San Francisco's radio
program City
Visions talking about "Health Care Reform in California: What's
It Going to Take and Who's Going to Pay for It?
February 4, 2007. Dolores Hayden (Fellow 2007) wrote an article for courant.com criticizing the proposed construction in Long Island Sound of
a barge a quarter of a mile long and over 10 stories high that will
deliver imported liquefied natural gas.
January 29, 2007. Two CASBS
Fellows were included in today's Mind & Body Special Issue of
Time.
A
Clever Robot written by
Daniel Dennett (Fellow
1980), and
Time
Travel in the Brain by
Daniel Gilbert (Fellow
1992) and Randy Buckner.
January 24, 2007. CASBS
Trustee Henry
Louis Gates Jr. is the executive producer of a
documentary "Oprah's Roots," which airs tonight on PBS at 8 p.m.
His
new book entitled Finding Oprah's Roots, Finding Your Own is
published on January 23.
January 23, 2007. New research
demonstrates that habits of so-called magical thinking — the belief,
for instance, that wishing harm on a loathed colleague or relative
might make him sick — are far more common than people
acknowledge. Today's article in the New
York Times includes comments by former fellows Daniel M. Wegner
(1997)
and Pascal Boyer (1996)
.
January 22, 2007. Gabrielle Spiegel (Fellow 1990) has been elected president of the American
Historical Association starting in January, 2008.
January 21, 2007. The news that
51% of women in the U.S. are unmarried is discussed in Why
Are There So Many Unmarried Americans? in today's New York
Times. Christopher Jencks (Fellow 1998 &
2002) explains who is likely to marry who, and why.
January 20, 2007. "Angel" has
become the most popular name for newborn Hispanic boys, and Guillermina
Jasso (Fellow 2000) links this practice back to the days when
taking on very Christian surnames was a way of survival in a suspicious
environment. The article (New
Favor for a Name That Straddles Cultures) appeared in today's
New York Times.
January 18, 2007. Today's Science
section of the New York Times has an article
about former Fellow George Loewenstein's (1998) research on buying
patterns in the brain.
January 15, 2007. The Boston Globe
today published an article (The
Many Stripes of anti-Americanism) which drew heavily from the
recent book edited by Peter Katzenstein
(Fellow 1982 & 2005) and Robert Keohane (Fellow
1978, 1988, & 2005) Anti-Americanisms in World Politics.
January 9, 2007. Steve Shortell (Fellow 2007) was interviewed on ABC's Channel 7 (San
Francisco) on Governor Schwarzenegger's health care proposal for
California.
January 6, 2007. At the annual meeting of the American Historical Society in Atlanta, David Brion Davis (Fellow 1973) won their Award for Scholarly Distinction.
January 2007. Jennifer Eberhardt's
(Fellow 2006) research into the effect of "degree of blackness", not
just race, and whether a defendant receives the death penalty, was one
of
Discover
Magazine's top 100 science stories of 2006.
January, 2007. Happiness is the
topic of the New Year! Articles in The Economist (Economics
Discovers its Feelings) and The New York Times (Happiness
101) included work and comments by psychologists Daniel
Kahneman (Fellow 1978), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Fellow
1995), Martin Seligman (Fellow 1979), Daniel
Gilbert (Fellow 1992); psychiatrist George
Vaillant (Fellow 1979); economist Robert Frank (Fellow
1993), and philosopher Robert Nozick (Fellow
1972).
December 23, 2006. The work of Daniel
Dennett (Fellow 1980) is included in this article in The
Economist on research in to the nature of consiousness entitled I
think, therefore I am, I think.
December 22, 2006. Congress
scraped by with an overall grade of "C-minus" for 2006 in a newly
released survey from the non-partisan Center on Congress at Indiana
University where Edward Carmines (Fellow 2001) is
director of research. The online survey asked a select
group of 39 top academic experts on Congress from around the country to
grade the institution. He was also interviewed on the nationally
syndicated public radio program "Here &
Now."
December 21, 2006. Richard White (Fellow 2004) was a recipient of The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award for 2006. The
award honor scholars who have made significant contributions to
humanistic inquiry.
December 20, 2006. Robert Mnookin (Fellow 1982
& 2007) and Alain Verbeke were the
authors of Bye Bye Belgium?
in today's International Herald Tribune, discussing the political, economic, social and cultural differences
between the Walloon and Flanders regions of Belgium and how
constitutional reforms reflect and
reinforce the organization of political, social and cultural life on
the basis of language.
December 15,
2006. Three CASBS
Fellows are among the newly elected fellows of the American Association
for the advancement of Science (AAAS): Henry Brady (Fellow
2002), Judy Deloache (Fellow 1997), and Kenji
Hakuta (Fellow 1983).
December 11, 2006. Ellen Handler
Spitz (Fellow 1997) reports that she has been named the Erik
H. Erikson Scholar for the summer of 2007 at the Erikson
Institute for Education and Research at Austen Riggs in
Stockbridge, MA.
December 6, 2006. It was announced
today that Richard Saller (Fellow 1987 and CASBS
Trustee) will be the next dean of Stanford's School of
Humanities and Sciences effective April 1, 2007.
November 30, 2006. Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
(Fellow 1992 and former CASBS Trustee)
has been named the Bard Center Distinguished Visiting
Fellow by Bard College and Simon's Rock College of Bard.
November 29, 2006. Alejandro Toledo
(Distinguished Scholar in Residence 2007) has been appointed Hoover
Distinguished Visiting Fellow. Toledo served as constitutional
president of Peru from July 2001 to July 2006.
November 26, 2006. Comments by
Fellows James Fearon (2000) and David Laitin
(2000) were included in this New York Times article American
in Iraq - Scholars' consensus: It's civil war.
November 19, 2006. According to Edward
Tufte (Fellow 1974) in The Wall Street Journal, Tips
For PowerPoint: Go Easy On The Text, PowerPoint software
sacrifices thought and analysis for the convenience of the speaker.
November 18, 2006. Claude Steele
(Fellow 1995 and current CASBS director) will receive an honorary
degree from the University of Michigan at its Winter Commencement on
December 17.
November 18, 2006. Peter Katzenstein
(Fellow 1982 & 2005) and Robert Keohane's (Fellow
1978, 1988, & 2005) new book Anti-Americanisms in World Politics
is featured in this article "Tough
being a Superpower" in The Australian.
November 16, 2006. David Berliner (Fellow
1988), professor of education at Arizona State University, delivered
the final Burack President’s Distinguished Lecture entitled “Travesty:
How federal educational policy corrupts educators while failing to
educate America's poor.”
November 13, 2006. Today's Time
Magazine article God
vs. Science mentioned Daniel Dennett's (Fellow 1980)
book Breaking
the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon.
November 6, 2006. A review of "Polarized
America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches" by Nolan
McCarty (Fellow 2005), Keith Poole (Fellow
2004), and Howard Rosenthal (Fellow 1992 & 1999),
appeared in the Princeton
Weekly Bulletin. The book shows that growing
income disparities and increasing immigration levels have driven the
current and previous periods of polarization.
November 2, 2006. Nannerl Keohane (Fellow 1979, 1988, & 2005) was a member of a committee
that produced the report Beyond Bias and
Barriers advocating changes in hiring, evaluation, and
promotion processes, and support for faculty members who have family
caregiving responsibilities.
November 2, 2006. Matt Shibatani's
(Fellow 2001) work on studying languages on the brink of extinction has
netted a nearly $300,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.
Shibatani will lead an international team of linguists from New
Zealand, Australia and Indonesia to study the languages of eastern
Indonesia. Specifically, their research will document the deterioration
of these languages' complex voice system.
November 1, 2006. Nannerl Keohane (Fellow 1979, 1988 & 2005) received UC Berkeley's Clark
Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education.
During her years at Duke (1993-2004), its standing as a top-ranked
national research university grew significantly. Already a leading
research institution, Duke moved beyond its campus into surrounding
neighborhoods, involving faculty and students in teaching and
mentorship programs dedicated to improving public schools in Durham,
N.C. A firm believer in equity and diversity, Keohane helped
raise $2 billion to support, among other programs, financial aid for
Duke students, more than 40 percent of whom receive financial
assistance.
November, 2006. In June 2006 Robert Keohane
(Fellow 1978, 1988, & 2005) received an honorary doctorate from
Sciences Po in Paris, and in November 2006 he was a Fellow of Nuffield
College, Oxford, for a week. He spoke about the book co-written
with Peter Katzenstein (Fellow 1982 & 2005) and others at the center in 2004-2005, called Anti-Americanisms in World Politics.
October
30, 2006. USA Today's article on how technology helps parents
keep track of their kids included comments by Steven Mintz
(Fellow
2007).
October 11,
2006. In the wake of
the recent child shootings in an Amish school, the resiliency of
children is the subject of today's S.F.
Chronicle article that widely quotes the work of Steven Mintz
(Fellow 2007).
October 9, 2006. The Center
congratulates Edmund S. Phelps (Fellow 1970) on winning
the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economic Sciences. Phelps received the award for explaining the
relationship between
inflation and unemployment, work that has had a profound impact on
macroeconomic policy. While a Fellow at the Center he met John
Rawls, the philosopher known for his treatise "A Theory of Justice."
Phelps credits the encounter in part for his exploration of ideas of
economic justice.
October 4, 2006. Steven Mintz
(Fellow 2007) commented in today's Washington
Post article on the cultural significance of family size. He
was also quoted recently in the September 26, 2006 Minneapolis
Star-Tribune, in an article entitled Putting the
Kids on High-Tech Leash, and Mom,
Dad, Stop your Crying -- You can Hire a Parenting Coach in the
San Francisco Chronicle, on August 20th.
September 25, 2006. Philip Kendall
(Fellow 1981) has been selected as the 2006 recipient of the APA
Division 12 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award; has been named
for the third consecutive year to the select group of “HighlyCited”
international mental health professionals by the Institute for
Scientific Information; was ranked 5th among the total number of
faculty at all 157 APA-approved clinical psychology programs; and
recently published the third edition of a book, Child and
adolescent therapy: Cognitive-Behavioral Procedures.
September 19, 2006. A paper
co-authored by Ruben Rumbaut (Fellow 2003),
finding that Spanish is giving way to English among Southern
California's heavily Latino population, was reported on in today's San
Jose Mercury News.
September 18, 2006. Shmuel N.
Eisenstadt (Fellow 1956) has been awarded the 2006
Holberg International Memorial Prize for his work combining
sociological theory with historical and empirical research in the study
of modernities and civilizations. Also, in July 2007, he was
elected a "Corresponding Fellow" of The British Academy.
September 18, 2006. Robert Putnam
(Fellow 1975, 1989) co-wrote a Viewpoint in today's Time Magazine (Let's
Get Connected) on the first Civic Health Index to be released that
measures awareness and engagement of U.S. citizens over the past three
decades.
September 18, 2006. The emerging
field of neuroeconomics (the neural bases of economic decision-making)
is the subject of Mind
Games in The New Yorker. It included comments and
research by Colin Camerer (Fellow 1998), Daniel
Kahneman (Fellow 1978), Amos Tversky (Fellow
1971), Richard Thaler (Fellow 1998), George
Loewenstein (Fellow 1998), Drazen Prelec (Fellow
1998), and Milton Friedman (Fellow 1958).
September 14, 2006. Stuart Hauser's (Fellow
1994) new book Out of the Woods: Tales of Resilient Teens was
reviewed in today's edition of Nature
magazine.
September 11, 2006. Recent
research and publications on the metaphysics of belief in today's Newsweek
magazine included Daniel C. Dennett (Fellow 1980)
and his new book Breaking the Spell.
September 4, 2006. The New
Yorker's article The Baby Lab: How Elizabeth Spelke Peers into the
Infant Mind included comments by Marshall Haith
(Fellow 1989), Claes von Hofsten (Fellow 1989), Howard
Gardner (Fellow 1995), Jerome Kagan (Fellow
1980), and Alison Gopnik (Fellow 2004).
August 25, 2006. Former Fellow Lawrence
Bobo (1989) and CASBS trustee Henry L. Gates Jr.
were among the guests at a screening of Spike Lee's new documentary When
the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. They also participated in
a subsequent panel discussion on the inequality and poverty exposed by
the storm that devastated New Orleans and nearby areas. The film
will be shown on HBO on August 29.
August 21, 2006. Online education,
and Stanford's new online high school program for gifted students was
the topic of this ABC
feature; Patrick Suppes (Fellow 1956) commented on
the program's advantages.
August 20, 2006. Edward Tufte
(Fellow 1974) and his work identifying good and bad design was the
subject of this piece on NPR.
August 20, 2006. Edward Tufte's
(Fellow 1974) work on what makes for good or bad design in
communicating information, and his new book Beautiful Evidence,
were
highlighted in this article in the Herald
Tribune.
August 8, 2006. Research done by Patrick
Suppes (Fellow 1956) and others in to the effect of rhythm on
the
brain was reported to this article in Science &
Theology News. Suppes studies brain waves and language
cognition.
July 31, 2006. Eszter Hargittai's
(Fellow 2007) research in to the gender gap in Internet use was the
subject of an article in today's San
Jose Mercury News.
July 30, 2006. In an effort to
understand the connection between events early in life, even in the
womb, and the fact that people now are living longer and
healthier, Dora Costa (Fellow 2004) used the
pension records
of the Union Army to uncover chronic ailments of soldiers, and her work
is included in today's article in the New
York Times.
July 19, 2006. A new book edited
by Stuart T. Hauser (Fellow 1994), Out of the
Woods, Tales of Resilient Teens, was reviewed in The
Times Literary Supplement.
July 10, 2006. A Time
Magazine article on siblings, included work done by former Fellow Judy
Dunn (Fellow 1986) on the relationships between sisters and
brothers.
July 5, 2006. The effect of bosses who
are "jerks" and demean their employees is covered in a book by Robert
Sutton (Fellow 1987, 1995 & 2003), and this research was
included in "'Prada'
Movie Spotlights Nasty Boss Phenom" in The Washington
Post. Jeffrey Pfeffer (Fellow 1999) also commented.
July 3, 2006. Finding the key to
happiness is not only the work of neuroscientists and
sociologists. In an article in the LA
Times, former Fellow Richard Easterlin (1971),
an economist, credits his year at CASBS as the time he started
questioning the accepted notion that money brings happiness. Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi (Fellow 1995) expressed doubts about
economists dabbling in real life research.
June 13, 2006. Are you and your
car a perfect fit? According to a recent report students
correctly matched photographs of male and female drivers to pictures of
the cars they drove almost 70 percent of the time. Sam
Gosling (Fellow 2004) commented on this finding in the New
York Times.
June 12, 2006. An article on
eating in today's Time Magazine ("2 Thin Chefs") featured research by Walter
Mischel (Fellow 1977) for his 2004 book Handbook of
Self-Regulation.
June 9, 2006. David Apter (Fellow
1959) has won the first award given for contributions to
interdisciplinary work in the social sciences, the Dogan prize, to be
awarded by the International
Social Science Council at the Alexandrian Library, Alexandria,
Egypt, in November 2006.
June 9, 2006. Tom Bender (Fellow
2006) was interviewed on KPFA's The
Morning
Show. Also, on May 22nd, he spoke to the San
Francisco Commonwealth Club and radio station KVON in Napa.
May 15, 2006. In this week's
Business Week, an
article called "White
Men Can't Help It" featured Bill Bielby (Fellow
1984) and his expert witness work.
May 15, 2006. Today's Time Magazine
contained an article on How
to Combat Senioritis, and former Fellow Michael Kirst
(Fellow 1981) commented on this phenomenum that takes place in the
second semester of high school.
May 14, 2006. Deborah Tannen (Fellow
1993) wrote a perspective on her book You're Wearing That?
Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation in today's San
Jose Mercury News.
May 14, 2006. Linda Darling-Hammond (Fellow 1998) was interviewed for the NBR special series "Work
in Progress" on the reformation of Hillsdale High School in San
Mateo, CA and how high schools are having to adapt to the new economy.
May 14, 2006. As
parents, boomers
have to stand aside as their children become independent adults.
Today's article in Newsweek, The Fine
Art of Letting Go, quoted Bill Damon (Fellow 1995)
on the importance of allowing kids to learn from their mistakes.
May 8, 2006. Steven Levitt (Fellow
2003) was named one of Time Magazine's Top 100 People
Who Shape Our World.
May, 2006. George Lakoff (Fellow
1972) was one of several Bay Area Democrats included in the San
Francisco Magazine's article Can These Crashers
Save This Party?
April 30, 2006. BBC Radio 4's "The
Food Programme" talked to anthropologist Richard Wrangham
(Fellow 1984) about his latest research on when humans started
cooking food and the evolutionary impact cooking had on our
development.
April 30, 2006. Comments by David
Brady (Fellow 1986, 2002) on whether government
corruption
might be an issue with voters were included in today's Washington Post
article, Polls
Suggest Ethics Issues Could Haunt GOP.
April 26, 2006. Catharine MacKinnon (Fellow
2006) was interviewed on the "Your Call"
Radio show on KALW. The program was titled "Are Women
Human?"
April 25, 2006. The National
Academy of Sciences announced the election of 72 new members and 18
foreign associates. Congratulations to the following CASBS
Fellows who were elected:
Rochel Gelman (Fellow
1978 & 1985)
Paul B. Milgrom (Fellow 1992
& 1999)
Barbara F.
Reskin (Fellow
1988)
Robert J. Sampson (Fellow
1998
& 2003)
April 24, 2006. The American
Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced the election of 175 new
Fellows and 20 new Foreign Honorary Members. Congratulations to
the following CASBS Fellows who were elected:
Richard N. Aslin (Fellow 1989) Reid
Hastie (Fellow
1989)
Lawrence J. Bobo (Fellow 1989) E. Tory Higgins (Fellow 1987)
Michael C. Dawson (Fellow 1997) Darlene Clark Hine (Fellow 2001)
Jack Greene (Fellow 1980) Keith
Poole (Fellow 2004)
Anil Gupta (Fellow 1999)
April 23, 2006. A new book by Tom
Bender (Fellow 2006) titled A Nation Among Nations,
America's Place in World History was reviewed today in the San
Francisco Chronicle.
April 17, 2006. Ron Suny (Fellow
2002 & 2006) was a narrator on the PBS program The Armenian
Genocide.
April 14, 2006. Catharine MacKinnon (Fellow
2006) was the subject of The Interview by the BBC
World Service on her work and achievements regarding the
rights of women.
April 14, 2006. Congratulations to
nine former Fellows who were announced today as winners of 2006
Guggenheim Fellowships. They are:
Dare Baldwin (Fellow
2000) Steven Feierman (Fellow 2005)
Frank Dobbin (Fellow
2003) Andrew Shryock (Fellow 2003)
Michael W. Doyle (Fellow
2001) Joel Sobel
(Fellow 2000)
Paula S. Fass (Fellow
1992) James A. Stimson (Fellow 1995)
Gillian Feeley-Harnik
(Fellow 1997)
April 7, 2006. No Borders:
Beyond the Nation-State is the title of an essay by Tom
Bender (Fellow 2006) published in today's Chronicle
of Higher Education. It was adapted from his new
book, A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History.
April 5, 2006. TIAA-CREF, a
provider of retirement savings products and services in the academic,
medical and cultural fields, today announced
the appointment of James M. Poterba (Fellow 1994)
to the
CREF Board of Trustees.
March 27, 2006. Today's issue of
Time magazine posed the question "Was
it worth it?" of the Iraq war to many experts and thinkers,
including David M. Kennedy, Fellow 1987.
March 21, 2006. "Democrats cannot
ignore religion" is the title of an editorial by John H. Bunzel (Fellow
1970) in the San
Jose Mercury News. He reports on new political research on
the importance of religion in an election, and how democrats cannot
ignore this fact if they want to become the majority party again.
March 20, 2006. Economist Steven
Levitt's (Fellow 2003) book Freakonomics includes an
examination in the decline of teen crime, and was mentioned in an
InDepth article in today's San
Jose Mercury News on this decline.
March 16, 2006. James Fearon (Fellow
2000) was quoted today in the San Jose Mercury News in an
analysis by Charles J. Hanley on whether there is a civil war in
Iraq or not.
March 16, 2006. Victor Davis Hanson (Fellow 1993) commented in today's San Jose Mercury News on
the controversy over the proposed operation of several US ports by a
company owned by Dubai's government.
March 9, 2006. Current Fellow Annette
Lareau's research into differences in child-rearing in
upper-middle-class homes and working-class homes was covered in an
editorial in today's New
York Times.
March 7, 2006. A special report on
America's efforts to improve math and science in schools aired on
today's NewsHour,
and featured Jo Boaler (Fellow 2005) talking about
teaching math in high school.
March 6, 2006. James Fearon
(Fellow 2000) was one of four experts shedding light on the brewing
civil war in Iraq in today's issue of Time.
March 5, 2006. Albert Bandura (Fellow
1970) received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy
of Health Behavior for significant advancement of health promotion
through health behavior research.
February 28, 2006. A review of Get
Out the Vote!: How to Increase Voter Turnout by Donald Green and Alan
Gerber (Fellow 2005) appeared in the Winter 2005/06 Claremont
Review of Books. The article also mentioned work by Sam
Popkin (Fellow 2005).
February 27, 2006. The work of
three Center fellows - Martin Seligman (Fellow 1979), Daniel
Kahneman (Fellow 1978), and Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
(Fellow 1995) - was mentioned in the article "Pursuing
Happiness" in The New Yorker.
February 27, 2006. David
Kennedy (Fellow 1987) was among a panel of experts rating Vice
President Cheney's power and influence in today's Time Forum (page 29).
February 23, 2006. Ellen Handler
Spitz (Fellow 1997) reports that her new book, The
Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood, about the
imaginative and aesthetic
lives of children, was published today. She also appeared on CN8
Nitebeat (New England TV) in Boston on February 24.
February 16, 2006. Dan
Kessler (Fellow 2004) was a guest on a
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer debating President Bush's proposal to
expand the use of health savings accounts
(HSAs) to cut the cost of health care coverage.
February 14, 2006. Todays Science
section of the New York Times features two former Fellows. Deborah
Tannen (Fellow
1993) is No. 9 on the New York Times was interviewed about her
just-released book "You're Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and
Daughters
in Conversation". She was also interviewed on
NPR's Morning Edition on January 25 on her book and the relationship
between mothers and daughters.
The Science section also featured an article on Sam Gosling's
(Fellow 2004) work on how our selves are
revealed by our
choice in music.
February 13, 2006. Kenneth Arrow
(Fellow 1957) will
be awarded the 2004 President's
National Medal of Science. R. Duncan Luce (Fellow 1955, 1967 & 1988) was a
recipient of this award for 2003.
February 13, 2006. "When
Cultures Collide" in Time Magazine, on the publication of cartoons
depicting the Prophet Muhammad included an opinion by Alan
Dershowitz (Fellow 1972).
February 9, 2006. Interracial
relationships among Americans ages 14-24 was the subject of today's
page 1 article "New
Generation Doesn't Blink at Interracial Relationships" in USA
Today, and included a quote from Marcelo Suarez-Orozco,
Fellow 1993.
February 3, 2005. Clayborne Carson
(Fellow 1993) was a guest on KQED's Forum Program
discussing the status of the civil rights
movement following the death of Coretta Scott King.
February 2, 2006. Hans Gumbrecht
(Fellow 2006) was a guest on KQED's Forum
program which previewed the upcoming Super Bowl and took a look at
the culture and aesthetics of football and sports in general.
February 1, 2006. Patricia Williams (Fellow 1994) is
the keynote speaker at the 2006
Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at the University of New
Hampshire. She will discuss "Women’s Voices and Civil Rights,"
January 30, 2006. Elizabeth Loftus
(Fellow 1979) and John Perry (Fellow 1981) were guests
on the KQED's
Forum show talking about "False Beliefs".
January 24, 2006. The problem that
schools have in communicating with immigrant parents, and translating
"educationalese" into something understandable in another language was
addressed by The Washington Post in "Reaching
Students' Families on Their Terms." Marcelo
Suarez-Orozco, Fellow 1993, was interviewed for the article.
January 22, 2006. The New York
Times Magazine article "The
Animal Self" featured an extensive interview with Sam
Gosling (Fellow 2004) and his work on animal personalities, and
also mentioned his research with Steve Glickman (Fellow
1969) on a colony of hyenas. Sam's work has also recently been
featured on WBUR's On Point (animal
personality), The
London Times (music & personality), Good Morning America
(offices space & personality), and Parenting
(personality change).
January 20, 2006. Re-Thinking
Self-Esteem: Why nonprofits should stop pushing self-esteem and start
endorsing self-control was the topic of an article by Roy
Baumeister (Fellow 2002) in the Winter 2005 issue of the Stanford Social
Innovation Review.
January 16, 2006. Nelson Polsby
(Fellow 1966 & 1986) and David Brady (Fellow 1986
& 2002) were guests on KQED-FM's program Forum discussing
leadership in the House of Representatives following Tom DeLay's
resignation.
January 12, 2006. The
susceptibility of type 2 diabetes in Asian Americans, particularly
immigrants, who have adopted the Western style diet is alarming the New
York City health department. Fellow Marcelo Suarez-Orozco
(Fellow 1993), co-director of immigration studies at New York
University comments on the problem in today's New
York Times.
January 12, 2006. A review of Mirror
to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
(Fellow 1974)
appeared in the New York Review of Books.
January 6, 2006. Bringing along
the kids on a second honeymoon may not make for a romantic getaway, but
could be important in starting a new life together. Research by E.
Mavis Hetherington (Fellow 1979) showed that 60%
of remarriages
fail, so blended families need all the help they can get. See
article in Newsweek.
January 3, 2006. Albert Bandura
(Fellow 1970) was quoted in the
Washington
Post on how to make more effective new year's resolutions.
