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Artificial intelligence (AI) is an essential tool at Indeed, a global job-matching and hiring platform. Trey Causey (2009) works to ensure that the company's AI promotes equity and fairness.
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Each year, the Howard B. Woolston Award for Academic Excellence is given to a graduating senior in the Department of Sociology. Howard B. Woolston was an active member of the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington from 1919 until 1948, serving as chair between 1919 and 1929. The Woolston Award was established in 1956 and is the first – and thereby oldest –endowed fund in the department.
Nominees usually have at least a 3.70 grade point average in sociology, and a GPA of… Read more
Albert W. Black was a long-time faculty member in the Department of Sociology and retired as an Emeritus Principal Lecturer, the highest instructional rank at the University of Washington. Al was also a recipient of two of the university’s highest awards: the Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Outstanding Public Service Award and received an Outstanding Community Service Award from the Seattle Central Area Chamber of Commerce. … Read more
Professor Audrey Dorélien's research strives to explain how human population dynamics and behavior intersect with environmental conditions to affect health. Her work describes demographic and health patterns and attempts to identify causal factors responsible for these patterns. The first strand of her research focuses on the effects of early life exposures (i.e., disease/nutrition/climate) on health both in the United States and in Sub-Saharan Africa. Second, she analyzes how human behavior… Read more
Patrick Trent Greiner’s research centers on providing greater insight into the complex co-constitution of social inequalities, environmental changes, and their consequences. His teaching interests center on the theories and methods that facilitate understanding of simultaneous and reciprocal change in social and ecological systems as well. Professor Greiner’s work has been published in journals such as Environmental Sociology, Environmental Research Letters, Nature… Read more
Drew Messamore is currently finishing his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, he will join UW Department of Sociology as an assistant professor in the Fall of 2024.
Messamore’s research examines the rising popularity and formalization of rental landlording in the United States, as well as how a new generation of urban housing movements are confronting urban inequalities.
He has also published widely on the use of quantitative and computational methodologies in social science. You can… Read more
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health
Chris Hess, Kyle Crowder, Gregg Colburn (UW Dept of Real Estate), and Ryan Allen (University of Minnesota)
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Housing affordability is a growing challenge for households in the United States and other developed countries. Prolonged exposure to housing cost burden can have damaging effects on households, and, in particular, children. These burdens can exacerbate parental stress, reduce… Read more
"Impact x Nightline" takes a look at the social effects of weight loss drugs. Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociology at the UW, is quoted.
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Sonia Fereidooni, who earned bachelorâs and masterâs degrees from the University of Washington, was selected for the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Fereidooni, 22, will receive a full-cost scholarship to pursue doctoral work in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge, England. The highly competitive scholarship brings recognition of accomplishments and future promise. This year, 26 students...… Read more