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Professor William Alex Pridemore has been elected Secretary-Treasurer of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research has appointed Professor William Alex Pridemore as Associate Director of the Consortium for Education and Social Science Research (CESSR) and Director of CESSR’s Workshop in Methods.

The Sociology Department at Indiana University has appointed Professor William Alex Pridemore as an Adjunct Professor of Sociology.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Bruce D. Sales has been named the Virginia L. Roberts Professor of Criminal Justice.

Professor William Alex Pridemore has received a Mellon Endowment Fellowship from IU’s Russian and East European Institute for his project entitled “The impact of Gorbachev’s anti-alcohol campaign on homicide and suicide mortality in Russia.”

Professor William Alex Pridemore has been given a prestigious internal grant from IU’s Office of the Vice Provost for research as part of its Faculty Research Support Program. Together with his collaborator on the project, Professor Tony Grubesic from IU’s Department of Geography, Professor Pridemore will carry out a project entitled “Using GIS and spatial analysis to improve epidemiological studies of alcohol-related violence and morbidity.”

Congratulations to Professor William Alex Pridemore, who has been promoted to Full Professor.

The Criminal Justice Methods Working Group, all members of this Spring's Graduate Research Methods class, under the direction of Professor Stephanie Kane, completed a service-learning project on homeless persons and service providers. The project focused on such issues as stigma, prison histories and employment, addiction management, and bureaucratic funding conundrums. The final report is entitled: Homelessness in Bloomington, Indiana: A Preliminary Ethnographic Study of Martha's House.

The College of Arts and Sciences recently announced that Krystie Herndon, one of our undergraduate advisors, won the 2009 College of Arts and Sciences Advisor of the Year Award.  Her students called her “a joy,” and “a friend and ally on campus.”  Colleagues wrote glowing letters that include this comment, “Sometimes you meet people and you just know they are special.  That is Krystie to many of us.  She is caring, hard working, empathic, calm, selfless, quite funny and full of wisdom.” 

Graduate student Aleskandra Snowden and Professor Pridemore co-authored an article, entitled "Reduction in suicide mortality following a new national alcohol policy in Slovenia: An interrupted time-series analysis," that was just published in the May 2009 issue of American Journal of Public Health.

Andrea ("Andi") Gitelson, undergraduate advisor for our department, recently won the Terri Nation Outstanding Academic Advisor Award, from the Bloomington Advisors Council (BAC).  This prestigious award recognizes the exceptional achievements of a member of BAC. The nominees must have demonstrated exceptional service in at least one of the following categories: Academic advising, service to the IUB campus, and service to the BAC. As all of us who know Andi would have expected, she excelled in all three categories. Congratulations Andi on your well-deserved recognition.

Professor Levesque authored "Regardless of Frontiers: Adolescents and the Human Right to Information" which recently appeared in the Journal of Social Issues, in a special issue devoted to charting the landscape of children's rights. 

Springer Publishers announces the release of Professor Levesque's most recent book: Child Maltreatment and the Law: Returning to First Principles.

Professor Arvind Verma traveled to India to a ceremony presided over by India's vice-president, M. Hamid Ansari.  Congratulations to Professor Verma. The ceremony was to launch his new book, Understanding The Police in India.

The executive board of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) recently appointed Professor Pridemore to be ASC’s representative to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for the next three years. One of his primary roles will be to create, organize, and moderate the criminology panel at the annual AAAS meetings during this period.

Professor Emeritus Hal Pepinsky has received an official proclamation from the city of Bloomington lauding his many important accomplishments as a pioneer in the study of criminal justice.

The American Psychology and Law Society has selected Professor Levesque's recent book, Adolescents, Media, and the Law (Oxford 2007), as the winner of the association's 2007-08 outstanding book in law and psychology award. Professor Levesque will be presenting an invited address at the San Antonio meeting in March, 2009.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Bruce D. Sales, Ph.D., J.D., will be joining our department this Spring. Please see his research interests summarized on our faculty webpage.