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Marta Tienda receives honorary doctorate
Kieran Healy wins ASA outstanding dissertation award
Sara McLanahan elected President-Elect of the Population Associate of America
Donnell Butler receives ASA Graduate Student Paper Award
Alejandro Portes book receives International Migration ASA award
Marta Tienda chosen for U-Texas Graduate School Alumna award
Marta Tienda chosen for U-Texas Graduate School Alumna award Posted (12/13/02)
Professor Marta Tienda has been chosen as the University of Texas Graduate School's Outstanding Graduate Alumna of the Year. Marta is the first graduate of the Texas Sociology department to receive this award. The award consists of a $5,000 research fellowship in her name to a current graduate student in sociology at Texas.
Portes book receives International Migration ASA award. Posted (10/18/02)
LEGACIES: THE STORY OF THE IMMIGRANT SECOND GENERATION (University of California Press), by Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut, has been selected as the 2002 winner of the W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki Award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association. The award will be presented at the ASA annual meetings in Chicago later this month.

As announced earlier, the same book has received the 2002 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from the American Sociological Association.

Donnell Butler receives ASA Graduate Student Paper Award Posted (10/18/02)
Donnell Butler is the 2002 recipient of the Graduate Student Paper Award from the Race, Gender, and Class section of the American Sociological Association. Donnell and his paper, "When Race Matters: Racial Variation in College Enrollment Revisited," will be honored at the ASA annual meetings in Chicago later this month.
Sara McLanahan elected President-Elect of the Population Associate of America Posted (10/18/02)
Sara McLanahan, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, has been elected President-Elect of the Population Association of America. She will serve as President-Elect during 2003 and as President in 2004. Part of her responsibilities will include organizing the program and presenting a Presidential Address at the spring meetings in 2004.
Kieran Healy wins ASA Outstanding Dissertation Award Posted (10/18/02)
Former graduate student in the Princeton Sociology department and now Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona, has won the outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association for his dissertation, "Exchange in Blood and Organs."

The Dissertation Award honors the best Ph.D. dissertation for a calendar year from among those submitted by advisors and mentors in the discipline. The Dissertation Award for 2002 is selected from among dissertations defended during calendar year 2001. The award will be presented at an award ceremony on Saturday, August 17th, at ASA's annual meetings in Chicago.

Tienda receives honorary doctorate Posted (10/18/02)
Marta Tienda, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and former director of Princeton's Office of Population Research, received an honorary doctorate in social science from Ohio State University at its Commencement ceremony June 14. Tienda was one of four honorary degree recipients, including President George W. Bush, Yankees principal owner George M. Steinbrenner III, and Walter E. Massey, president of Atlanta's Morehouse College. Tienda's research focuses on diversity in higher education, race and gender inequality, and the sociology of economic life.