Other Student Accomplishments as of  07/07/2008                                                          Graduate Student News

Jooyoung Lee in UCLA Magazine July, 2008 and UCLA Graduate Quarterly Fall 2007.

Kristin Surak in Kyoto Shinbun Newspaper Feb 11, 2008 .

Meera Deo is planning to join a group of American doctors who are traveling to Colombia in October 2007 to practice medicine in underserved areas. This one-week trip has clearance through the Department of Health Ministry.

In May 2007, Nazgol Ghandnoosh and Rocio Rosales helped bring a temporary exhibit of over 1,000 mock graves to campus as part of the Arlington West Memorial. Also on display were donated shoes marked with names of a small number of the Iraqis killed during the war. Nazgol and Rocio organized the faculty and student support needed to obtain the exhibit's prime location on campus. The event was organized by a coalition of Veterans for Peace, Students for a Democratic Society, and CODEPINK Los Angeles.

Angie Jamison had lead stories in Slate Magazine and UCLA Magazine on the findings in "The Oprah Effect," 2007. 

--She was an invited speaker at the Presidential inauguration for her alma mater Linfield College (McMinnville, OR) in February 2007. She discussed "The benefits of an international education." (Also profiled in Linfield's alumni magazine last year-- story about parlaying a post-Linfield Fulbright into a sociology career.)

 --She was invited to speak on the topic of political economy in Los Angeles at the visiting speaker series at the Stanford Center for the Study of the American West, September 2007.

Chinyere Osuji has a photography exhibit on the second floor of the UCLA’s Powell library, “Vistas do Brasil/Views of Brazil.”  It shows some of the cityscapes and other views of different areas of Brazil.  The photographs were taken in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and different places in the state of Bahia.  The exhibit is running until August 31, 2007 in the rotunda of Powell.  Pictures were taken in Brazil last summer while doing research on affirmative action programs in Brazil.

Danielle Pillet-Shore accepted an invitation from the Department of Sociology at UCSB to teach an upper division course to their undergraduates on her research in Spring 2006.

Jennifer Winther:  Taught a new undergraduate seminar at UCLA entitled "Technologies and Cultures of Prenatal Care and Birth" (GE Cluster on Biotechnology and Society) in Spring 2007.