Professor Jayanti Owens has been elected to ASA's Disability and Society Section.

Professor Jennifer Candipan has received a Spencer Foundation Large Research Grant on Education. Spencer's Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education.

Professor Prudence Carter has been named President-Elect of the American Sociological Association and the inaugural holder of the Sarah and Joseph Jr. Dowling Professorship at Brown. She will join the department on July 1, 2021.

Professor Emily Rauscher and Ph.D. Candidate Ailish Burns explain in a podcast by Research Minutes how higher COVID-19 deaths with later school closures were found. Closing school is more strongly related to COVID-19 deaths in counties with a high concentration of Black or poor residents, suggesting schools play an unequal role in transmission and earlier school closure is related to fewer lives lost in disadvantaged counties.

On the Trending Globally Podcast, Sarah Baldwin talks with Professor Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve about why convicting police officers of crimes in the U.S. is so incredibly rare.

Karolina Dos Santos has received a 2020 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project, “Wards of Action: Internal and International Migration to Newark, NJ”.

Jordan Mosby has been awarded a 2021 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. NSF Fellowships are extremely competitive.

Scott Frickel with co-authors published an opinion piece within Scientific American: Scientists Are Becoming More Politically Engaged – Here’s what that means beyond the 2020 elections. In many ways, science itself was on the ballot this Election Day.

Michael Kennedy has published an article in The Progressive Post where he discusses "the cultural politics defining the 2020 Election" detailing divisions within the United States, misinformation, and risings of extremism. "America is not only more divided than progressives imagined. What is worse is that we are polarized in ways that Trump conjures."