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Hillary Steinberg received the United Government of Graduate Students Graduate Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of her teaching this past year. Congrats Hillary!

Our alumnus Angel Hoekstra was featured in this week’s ASA Footnotes on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic while working abroad. Congrats Angel! 

Jocelyn West presented a webinar about an ongoing collaborative research project on risk communication for . The project team includes Lori Peek as well as students and scientists from the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez and U.S. Geological Survey. You can view the . It is part of the Natural Hazards Center's Making Mitigation Work webinar series.

David Pyrooz and Jenn Tostlebe, along with Ryan Labrecque (UCF) and Bert Useem (Purdue) published an article on prisoner perceptions of COVID-19 in Justice Evaluation Journal using mixed methods data from their ongoing study in the Oregon prison system: 

Related, David Pyrooz and Jennifer Tostlebe wrote an essay for the Social Science Research Council,  for the Items: Insights from the Social Sciences series (with Ryan Labrecque and Bert Useem).