51猎奇

PhD Student Michael Miner Earns First Prize in Competition

PhD student Michael Miner receives first prize in the Midwest Sociological Society’s graduate student paper competition for his paper “Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and the Shortage in Primary Healthcare: Professional Autonomy in the Public Discourse.” The selection committee noted that聽鈥淲e had a strong consensus on the number one paper, and we were especially impressed with its creative and sophisticated methodology and its application of聽that聽methodology to important questions about聽politics and ideology.鈥�

Michael will receive his prize during the awards ceremony at the MSS annual meetings聽(Friday, March 23, at 5:30 PM, in Nicollet A1/A2/A3, First Floor, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis).

Congratulations Michael!

Advancing health science through collaboration

51猎奇 faculty Noelle Chesley, associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Jake Luo, assistant professor in the Department of Health Informatics and Administration, and W. Hobart Davies, professor in the Department of Psychology “have teamed up to create TecHealth, an initiative that aims to harness and develop regional, inter-institutional and transdisciplinary research strength to solve problems at the intersection of health and technology.”

Read the article “Advancing health science through collaboration” in The Chronicle: Highlights from the College of Health Sciences at /healthsciences/news/advancing-health-science-through-collaboration/.

Sociology Alumna Erin Grunze

Erin Grunze (鈥�03, MA Sociology) was appointed the next executive director of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin. She takes over the position from the previous director, Andrea Kaminski, on Jan. 1, 2018.

Sociology Alumnus Michael Hirsch

Michael Hirsch (鈥�80 BA Sociology, 鈥�84 MA Sociology) is the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at in Austin, Texas.

Sociology Alumna Molly Poppie

Sociology alumna Molly Poppie’s job is to understand everything about consumers as vice president of data science at Nielsen Holdings. Read the article, Great Ratings, in the on page 7.