ROJAS WINS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

Fabio Rojas will spend the next two academic years at the University of Michigan as Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research. His book From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline, was recently published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Bravo!

CHRISTI M. SMITH WINS FELLOWSHIP

Graduate student Christi Smith has won the 2008 Wells Graduate Fellowship – congratulations! The Wells Graduate Fellowship, named after Herman B Wells, honors a student "who demonstrate[s] the qualities for which Chancellor Wells was renowned: leadership abilities, academic excellence, character, social consciousness, and generosity of spirit." Christi’s sponsors are Pam Walters, Brian Steensland and DGS Art Alderson. A graduate student in Sociology has now won this prestigious prize two times: Emily Fairchild was honored in 2007.

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