Announcements & Accolades
Colonel Dan Isom, one of our PhD graduates, has been named the new Chief of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
Jennifer Cobbina (*) has been awarded a dissertation fellowship by the National Institute of Justice.
Mike Vecchio (*) was the winner of the Graduate Student Paper Competition at the 2008 Meetings of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association.
Congratulations to Dr. Richard Rosenfeld and Dr. Jody Miller for their recent elections in the American Society of Criminology (ASC). Dr. Rosenfeld has been elected the incoming President and Dr. Jody Miller has been elected Executive Counselor.
Dr. Andres F. Rengifo has been appointed by the Colombian Bureau of the Census to serve in a 3-member independent commission seeking to assess the quality of crime and police statistics compiled by the Colombian Government.
Spring/Summer 2008
Ekaterina Archakova (*) received a fellowship from the Bureau of Justice Statistics to attend the course "Quantitative Analysis of Crime and Criminal Justice Data" at ICPSR.
Mark Berg (*) has been awarded a Harry Frank Guggenheim dissertation fellowship. He is expected to graduate around May, 2009.
Brendan Dooley (*) has received a dissertation award from the Institute for Humane Studies.
Dr. Beth Huebner received the 2008 Tori Caeti Young Scholar Award from the Juvenile Justice Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
Dr. Richard Wright was appointed Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Sociology (BJS). BJS is now ranked #3 out of 96 Sociology journals according to the ISI.
(*) Denotes UMSL CCJ Ph.D. student