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Pilkinton Published in Affilia
Melinda Pilkinton, social work faculty, recently published an article entitled Great-Aunt Whoever’s Funeral: A Lesbian Woman’s Newfound Strength. It will appear in Volume 28 Issue 2 May 2013 of Affilia: The Journal of Women & Social Work.
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Lane Elected to Community Engagement Committee
Shannon Lane, Instructor of Sociology, was recently elected to a three-year term on the Community Engagement Committee for Mississippi State University. This committee coordinates the advancement of community engagement, service-learning, and outreach activities on-campus, within the region, and beyond. Congratulations! -
Doctoral Candidate Husain Receives College Award
Congratulations to Jonelle Husain who won the College of Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Research Award at Monday night's banquet. Jonelle has done extensive work on the pro-life movement in Mississippi and is wrapping up her disseration, looking at Prop 26 and post-abortion groups.
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Faculty and Students Awarded Interdisciplinary Grant
The "Developing a Robotic Application for Bullying Intervention" Think Big proposal was funded by BCoE. Megan Stubbs, a Master's student in Sociology, is serving as team leader for this project and the primary faculty advisor is Dr. Cindy Bethel from Computer Science and Engineering. The team is interdisciplinary and includes faculty and students from Sociology, Psychology, and Computer Science. The project is led by the students and advised by faculty members. Jeannice Louine, Jennifer Carruth and Megan Stubbs are the Sociology students on the project. Dr. David May is a Sociology advisor on the project and Dr. Melinda Pilkinton a Social Work faculty member advising the team. -
Kytan Spirit of State Award Winner
Alex Kytan, a senior Criminology major from Graham, WA, was one of 23 Mississippi State University students selected to receive a ‘Spirit of State’ award that was presented on Friday, April 19, 2013. The Spirit of State award is the university‘s premier student award, recognizing exceptional personal contributions to student life at Mississippi State. Students from all MSU campuses, freshmen to graduate, are eligible for the award. The ‘Spirit of State’ Award formally honors those students who have excelled in campus involvement, service to the university, and have made an impact on their peers and the broader campus community.
When asked what the “Spirit of State” means to you, Alex replied that the “spirit of State” is the spreading of our university’s tradition and embedding it into the hearts of other Mississippi State University students. She further replied that “even though I came from a completely different culture and part of the nation, Mississippi State University is now the place I call home. Its tradition and southern cultures make it extremely welcoming.”
Please join us in congratulating Alex on her prestigious award. - More News
The Department of Sociology is organized as a Ph.D. granting research department with explicitly defined missions of research, instruction, and service. The Department resides within the College of Arts and Sciences although its members have historically carried out research and service through the Social Science Research Center as well as other research entities. The Department offers a B.A. degree in sociology, a B.A. in criminology, and a BSW in social work. M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs are offered in sociology. In addition to more than 400 undergraduate majors in all programs, the department has more than 50 enrolled graduate students.
The Department has developed longstanding emphases in criminology, family and gender, social demography, social inequality, and community development. The Department is one of the larger concentrations of sociological expertise in the Southern region as evidenced in the number of graduate faculty, the enrollment of graduate students, the placement and success of doctoral graduates, the number and frequency of publication, the level of funding for grants and contracts, the facilities and other infrastructure for sociological research and education.
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