News


To send news of awards, special lectures, events, or publications, please write to barbara.ruth@yale.edu.  Feel free to include links and images (poster, book cover, powerpoint, portrait), or other media related to the news.

May 17, 2010
  Congratulations to sociology major Andrew Udelsman, winner of this year’s Yale Club of New Haven Richard Hegel Senior Essay Prize for his senior essay “Surviving the...
April 29, 2010
Sociology major Kayle Vinson holds a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship in support of her research. Sociology major Isabel Jijon received a summer travel grant from the...
April 28, 2010
  Congratulation to sociology major Thomas Meyer, who is the a recipient of a 2010 Yale College Dean’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The...
April 22, 2010
Established in the fall of 2009, the Justice Carlos R. Moreno Prize will be awarded to the best senior essay on the Latino/a experience in the U.S. A faculty committee...
December 26, 2009
Congratulations to Sociology Major Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith ‘10 for a Marshall scholarship! TheMarshall Scholarships were established in 1953 as a British gesture of thanks to...
May 26, 2009
  Congratulations to Mikkel Kruger Krenchel ‘09, majoring in sociology and International Studies, who received the 2009 Mildred Priest Frank Prize. The Mildred Priest Frank...
May 26, 2009
Click here for senior dinner photo.  
April 3, 2009
This spring marks the 35th anniversary of the publication of All Our Kin, Carol Stack’s path-breaking ethnography of the survival strategies of African-American women...
March 3, 2009
Bio: Patri Friedman, grandson of Milton Friedman and executive director of the Seasteading Institute. Friedman is a computer scientist, visionary entrepreneur, and advocate...
March 1, 2009
What it is [from ycc website]: In most departments, the DUS organizes and chairs an advisory committee that includes students and that meets at regular intervals during the...