News in the Department of Sociology
- 04/18/2023
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Creating Legacies: Black & Transmasculine in Ohio
As a class project for Rethinking Race, sociology students led a conversation with award-winning community organizer and artist LuSter P. Singleton.
- 04/30/2021
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Sociology department honors student achievement
The Department of Sociology continued its long tradition of recognizing student achievement and excellence.
- 04/26/2021
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University of Akron researchers seek confidential input from Akron residents on policing
Akron residents can confidentially share their ideas on how to improve public safety and policing in the city through a series of virtual focus groups led by UA. (Free Beacon Journal login required)
- 04/06/2021
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UA Faculty Shifts to Online Education in Innovative Ways due to COVID-19
UA Faculty Shifts to Online Education in Innovative Ways due to COVID-19. Four UA professors discuss adjustments and achievements in the classroom.
- 03/25/2021
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Congratulations to Dr. Joann Xi for her latest publication
Congratulations to Dr. Joann Xi for her latest publication!
- 03/02/2021
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From law enforcement to law school, and other challenges
The remarkable journey of Darrell Claytor, a lieutenant in the University of Akron Police Department who will soon graduate with a law degree. - 02/17/2021
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Professor gives insight about the benefits and challenges ethnic diversity brings in U.S. cities
The U.S. today is a melting pot of cultures, and if the trend continues, no single ethnic group will constitute the majority in America for the first time by 2045. Professor Robert Peralta gives insight about both the benefits and challenges that ethnic diversity brings.
- 12/28/2020
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Lost to COVID-19: University of Akron professor hosted international students at his house every Thanksgiving
Baffour Takyi knew what it was like to be far from home. The University of Akron professor was from Ghana, and still had deep roots in the African nation. So every Thanksgiving, he and his wife invited Akron's international students to their house for a meal.
- 11/23/2020
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In memoriam: Dr. Baffour K. Takyi
Dr. Baffour K. Takyi, a professor of sociology, passed away Nov. 18, 2020. He was 64.
- 10/20/2020
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Exonerated Ohio men discuss race and wrongful convictions
Dr. Daniela Jauk, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, moderated a panel discussion, with four wrongfully accused and then exonerated men with the help of the Ohio Innocence Project, focused on how race figures into wrongful conviction.
- 10/17/2020
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Wrongfully convicting
Assistant Professor Dani Jauk, during panel discussion that coincided with Wrongful Conviction Day, presented information about the disproportionate effects of wrongful convictions.
- 09/21/2020
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UA student organizations hosting a conversation about capital punishment and wrongful conviction
The free virtual event is being hosted by UA's student chapter of the Ohio Innocence Project and its Sociology Club. - 06/11/2020
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Social exclusion could lead to increase in alcohol use disorder in LGBTQ
A study by UA sociologists examined the largest sample of sexual minority data available to date. - 03/04/2020
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Assessing the scope of witnessed violence in prisons
New study is one of few to focus on documenting observed violence in state prisons. - 11/25/2019
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UA students find way to fight opioid crisis
For sophomores Maggie Weber and Hailey Vieltorf, a painful loss was the motivation to work on anti-drug awareness and education programs targeting young people.