FACULTY AWARDS
Laszlo Kulcsar is a Co-PI on an NSF funded interdisciplinary grant "Hyper-extractive Economies and Sustainability: Policy Scenarios for Sustainable Water Use in the High Plains Aquifer". The team will receive $1,500,000 for three years to study water use scenarios in west Kansas and linking different forecasting models together.
Spencer Wood, assistant professor of Sociology, is the PI on a grant he and Laszlo Kulcsar received for $70,000 ($50,00 from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, and $20,000 from K-State Extension) to utilize mixed methods and community-based research designs to study the community and household impacts of an urban agriculture project in Kansas City, KS. The project and the research is a community partnership with Katherine Kelly and the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture.
GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
Travis Linnemann, doctoral student in Sociology, was recognized by the American Society of Criminology’s Division of People of Color and Crime with the Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
Laura Carlson, Sociology major, is the recipient of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. This scholarship supported Carlson’s 2009 spring semester in Prague, Czech Republic.
Spencer Wood, assistant professor of Sociology, is the PI on a grant he and Laszlo Kulcsar received for $70,000 ($50,00 from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, and $20,000 from K-State Extension) to utilize mixed methods and community-based research designs to study the community and household impacts of an urban agriculture project in Kansas City, KS. The project and the research is a community partnership with Katherine Kelly and the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture.
GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
Travis Linnemann, doctoral student in Sociology, was recognized by the American Society of Criminology’s Division of People of Color and Crime with the Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
Laura Carlson, Sociology major, is the recipient of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. This scholarship supported Carlson’s 2009 spring semester in Prague, Czech Republic.