News: Research

Cara Margherio portrait photo
Margherio Named Virtual Visiting Scholar for the ARC Network
October 31, 2018
Katherine Beckett and Heather Evans
Beckett and Evans' Research Upends Death Penalty in Washington State
October 23, 2018
Miyamoto Professor Katherine Beckett
Beckett Op-Ed on Restorative Justice in the Seattle Times
May 21, 2018
Hannah Curtis, Michelle Cadigan, John Leverso
Curtis Awarded NSF Fellowship
May 21, 2018
Barbara Reskin weighs in on the impact of overtime on the city of Seattle's gender wage gap
April 11, 2018
Christine
Leibbrand and Tolnay's work on the impact of the Great Migration on second generation outcomes published in Demography, highlighted on CityLab
January 28, 2018
Liz Litzler's photo
Flipping the Script on Deficit Models of Student Success
November 24, 2017
CapeTown
UW brings the Data Revolution to the International Population Conference in Cape Town
November 8, 2017
Children
Ande Reisman's Dispatch from the Field:  Liminal in Nepal
November 6, 2017
air pollution
Sociology led team reveals how air pollution impacts mental health
November 3, 2017
How air pollution clouds mental health
November 2, 2017
Luther
On the Quincentennial of Luther's 95 theses, Steve Pfaff discusses how Luther's spiritual practice helped spread the Reformation.
October 30, 2017
Twitter immigration collage
Using a clever design and twitter data, Flores' research reveals how anti-immigration laws embolden those with anti-immigrant sentiments.  
October 23, 2017
Using Facebook data as a real-time census
October 16, 2017
Emilio Zagheni
Emilio Zagheni's work leverages Facebook advertising data to estimate migrant populations
October 12, 2017
Pettinicchio
David Pettinicchio (PhD 2012) and Michelle Maroto (PhD 2012) examine employment discrimination against persons with disabilities
September 21, 2017
No Jargon
No Jargon:  René Flores discusses immigration and the 2016 Presidential Election with Theda Skocpol.
September 21, 2017
Cesare Miscarriage
NPR highlights Nina Cesare's research on how people discuss miscarriages on Twitter
August 28, 2017
NSF logo
NSF funds three faculty-led projects on the social opportunities and challenges of the growth of digital data and technologies
August 25, 2017
Q & A: Sarah Quinn lifts the curtain on the 'hidden state'
August 22, 2017
Government Building
Sarah Quinn discusses her award winning research on 'the hidden state' with UW News. 
August 17, 2017
Black life is draining out of Seattle, Census shows
May 16, 2017
Edwards accepts post-doc
Frank Edwards Accepts Post-Doctoral Position at Cornell University
March 24, 2017
Cadigan Receives NSF
Michele Cadigan Receives NSF Graduate Fellowship
March 24, 2017
Raftery Awarded St. Patrick's Day Medal
Professor Adrian Raftery Receives Ireland's St. Patrick's Medal for His Contributions to Science
March 17, 2017
Hsiao receives award for MA thesis
Yuan Hsiao receives Graduate School’s 2016 Distinguished Thesis Award
September 14, 2016
One of the Peak Times for Divorce Is Nearly Over
August 31, 2016
Nina Cesare's and Jennifer Branstad's work using Twitter to study mourning appears in the news.
August 26, 2016
Brines' and Serafini's work on seasonal trends in divorce is in the news.
August 26, 2016
Divorce rates spike in March and August — and here's why
August 26, 2016
What Do People Tweet At The Dead? How We Mourn On Twitter Is Unique, Researchers Find
August 26, 2016
6 Negative Thoughts That Can Destroy A Relationship
August 17, 2016
How To Stay Married When You’re With Hillary But He’s With Trump
August 16, 2016
The Link Between Money and Aggressive Policing
August 11, 2016
Women divorce better than men: They’re happier, more confident and less likely to self-destruct
July 1, 2016
In Some States, Defendants Can Be Charged Hundreds of Dollars Just to Face a Jury
June 29, 2016
Pantazis accepts US Census job
Athena Pantazis accepts position at US Census Bureau
June 23, 2016
The cost of criminalizing poverty: Column
June 18, 2016
Nicolas Kristof | Is it a crime to be poor?
June 11, 2016
Frank Edwards wins 2 ASA awards
Frank Edward's wins two best graduate student papers from ASA
June 10, 2016
Editorial | Justice isn’t free — but we shouldn’t be jailing for legal financial obligations
June 10, 2016
Paying your debt to society (with 12 percent interest)
June 8, 2016
Diversity takes center stage at Airbnb's annual tech conference
June 8, 2016
How prison debt ensnares offenders
June 2, 2016
Denice accepts post-doc
Patrick Denice accepts post-doc at Washington University-St Louis
May 29, 2016
Raftery's work on population projections
Adrian Raftery's work on population projections in the news
May 29, 2016
Anna Reosti receives NSF award
Reosti receives NSF dissertation award
May 24, 2016
Tolnay receives IPUMS award
Stew Tolnay and Amy Bailey receive IPUMS Research Award
May 18, 2016
Matsueda receives Sutherland
Professor Ross Matsueda receives the ASC's Sutherland Award
May 12, 2016
Laird cited in NYT Magazine
Jennifer Laird's research work is cited in NY Times Magazine
April 27, 2016

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