And the Padma Goes to…
Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran has been awarded one of India’s top civilian honors, the Padma Bhushan. Established in 1954 by the president of India, the Padma Bhushan recognizes distinguished service of a high order to the nation, in any field. Ramachandran, professor of psychology and director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, will receive the award from A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, India’s president, in April 2007. Other U.S.-based recipients of the year’s award are: Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia, Yale economist T.N. Srinivasan and Indra Nooyi, chief executive officer of PepsiCo.
Political Science Profs Honored
Members of the political science faculty were honored at the 2006 meeting of the American Political Science Association.
Gary W. Cox, Thad Kousser and Mathew D. McCubbins were presented with the 2005 State Politics and Policy Quarterly Best Paper Award, for their. What Polarizes Parties? Preferences and Agenda Control in American State Legislatures. The award recognizes the best paper on the American states presented at any political science conference during the calendar year.
Cox and McCubbins were also honored for their book Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the US House of Representatives (Cambridge UP, 2005) with the Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award, for outstanding and lasting significance in the field.
Economist Nora Gordon Receives National Academy of Education Fellowship
Nora Gordon, assistant professor of economics, has won a highly selective National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral fellowship, the nation‘s oldest source of support for education research for scholars who are recent recipients of the doctorate. Professor Gordon will work on issues surrounding “competitiveness among vendors to public schools.”
Another Top Book Award for Communication Professor Dan Hallin
Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics, by UCSD professor of communication Daniel C. Hallin and Italian scholar Paolo Mancini, has been named the “Outstanding Book of the Year” by the International Communication Association. The work provides a systematic comparative framework for understanding the role of the press in different forms of political systems. This selection is the third prestigious honor for the book, with similar laurels having been bestowed by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy and also by the National Communication Association.
UCSD Anthropologist Receives NIMH Grant to Study Native American Mental Health
Professor Thomas J. Csordas of the Department of Anthropology has received a four year National Institute of mental Health research grant to support his study “Navajo Youth and the Experience of Psychiatric Treatment” (NYEPT). The grant will fund Csordas and his research team to conduct a clinical ethnography and therapeutic process study in an inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit within an Indian Health Service hospital on the Navajo Nation, the first unit of its kind to operate on an Indian reservation and to integrate traditional native American healing practices with conventional psychiatry. The study will examine the development of a clinical culture within the new unit, and will compare adolescent patients treated in the on-reservation facility with untreated adolescents and with adolescents treated in off-reservation facilities, tracing the trajectory of patients into treatment and on toward reintegration with their families and communities.
“Occupational Ghettos” by Maria Charles
The last half-century has witnessed dramatic declines in gender inequality, evidenced by the rise of egalitarian views on gender roles and the narrowing of long-standing gender gaps in university attendance and labor force participation. This development, while spectacular, has been coupled with similarly impressive forms of resistance to equalization, most notably the continuing tendency for women to crowd into female “occupational ghettos.”
This book answers the important questions: Why has such extreme segregation persisted even as other types of gender inequality have lessened? Why is segregation especially extreme in precisely those countries that appear most committed to egalitarian reform and family-friendly policies?
UCSD Archaeologist is Part of “Global Moments” Project
Anthropological archaeologist Thomas Levy, professor in the UCSD Department of Anthropology, will join an international team of researchers in a study of “Global Moments in the Levant,” under a $2.6 million grant from the Norwegian Research Council. Global moments are defined as “developments that typically call for significant adaptation leading to new forms of cooperation or conflict.” The major objective of the collaboration of the 16 scientists is to advance understanding of how these significant events altered lives of groups and communities in the past. Professor Levy will focus on his research project in Southern Jordan, at a series of large ancient copper processing sites, where he has been studying the role of metallurgy and technology in the development of complex societies.
Professor of Ethnic Studies Receives The Thomas and Znaniecki Award
Congratulations to Yen Espiritu whose book, Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries, has won the Thomas and Znaniecki book award sponsored by the American Sociological Association as the best book in the field of International Migration for the 2005 competition
