Recent news and announcements about the faculty and students from the Department of Sociology at LSU.
Recent News & Announcements
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November 2024
- Monday, 11/18/2024
- Tim Slack's research on the informal economy is cited in the New York Times
August 2024
- Tuesday, 08/27/2024
- Tim Slack LSU professor coauthors book on Rural America
December 2023
July 2023
- Thursday, 07/27/2023
- Dr. Tim Slack featured in the Advocate on natural decrease in Louisiana
December 2022
- Tuesday, 12/06/2022
- Dr. Tim Slack quoted on the COVID rural rebound
August 2022
- Thursday, 08/25/2022
- Dr. Kevin Smiley's research finds that Hurricane Harvey hit Latinos the hardest
March 2022
- Wednesday, 03/23/2022
- Dr. Dana Berkowitz quoted in the New York Times about Botox use
December 2021
- Thursday, 12/23/2021
- Dr. Tim Slack on the Great Resignation in the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
- Friday, 12/10/2021
- Retirement of Dr. Yoshinori Kamo
October 2021
- Tuesday, 10/12/2021
- Dr. Tim Slack discusses Louisiana's population shifts in LSU's REVEILLE
- Tuesday, 10/12/2021
- Dr. Tim Slack talks to MONROE NEWS-STAR about NELA census data
- Tuesday, 10/12/2021
- Dr. Wesley Shrum's COVID-19 study finds people fail to take precautions at home
- Tuesday, 10/12/2021
- CNN talks with Dr. Ed Shihadeh on violence in Shreveport
May 2021
- Thursday, 05/06/2021
- Dr. Dana Berkowtiz talks about botox in THE WASHINGTON POST
April 2021
- Thursday, 04/08/2021
- Dr. Ed Shihadeh talks about TIGER, an LSU-developed risk assessment tool
- Friday, 04/02/2021
- Javin Bowman, Criminology Major, Elected 2021 Student Government President
March 2021
- Tuesday, 03/02/2021
- Drs. Barton & Gremillion Discuss The 3 C’s of Pandemic Online Teaching
January 2021
- Sunday, 01/31/2021
- Drs. Blanchard & Slack in THE ADVOCATE on State Population Loss
- Wednesday, 01/06/2021
- Dr. Lori Martin named Ogden Honors College Sternberg Professor for 2020-21
December 2020
- Wednesday, 12/09/2020
- Dr. Dana Berkowitz on the UNLADYLIKE podcast talking Botox & feminism
November 2020
September 2020
July 2020
- Monday, 07/13/2020
- New RAND report featuring Dr. Tim Slack and LSU Doctoral Candidates
- Friday, 07/10/2020
- Dr. Heather O'Connell in URBAN EDGE on Confederate monument removal.
June 2020
- Monday, 06/22/2020
- Dr. Lori Martin talks about being a black scholar is the REVEILLE
May 2020
- Tuesday, 05/19/2020
- Doctoral student Caitlin Charles receives ICPSR's Clifford C. Clogg Scholarship
April 2020
- Thursday, 04/30/2020
- Dr. Tim Slack links lessons from Deepwater Horizon to impacts of COVID-19
- Tuesday, 04/28/2020
- Dr. Wes Shrum awarded NSF grant to compare COVID-19 responses across countries
February 2020
- Monday, 02/10/2020
- Dr. Tim Slack's Op-Ed on the importance of the 2020 Census for Louisiana
October 2019
September 2019
June 2019
- Wednesday, 06/19/2019
- Dr. Wes Shrum and Dr. Mark Schafer funded by NSF for video ethnography study
- Friday, 06/07/2019
- Doctoral student Jiabin Fan receives ICPSR's Clifford C. Clogg Scholarship.
May 2019
- Thursday, 05/23/2019
- Dr. Tim Slack Briefed Louisiana House Committee on Population Trends
April 2019