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  ASA News and Media - 2003  
     
 
13-DEC-2003 View contents of the December 2003 Footnotes newsletter. [12/13/03]
 
04-DEC-2003 A December 4, 2003, New England Journal of Medicine editorial, spurred by Congress, strongly endorses value of NIH-supported social science research. [12/4/03]
 
ASA members now can easily access a directory of ASA member e-mail addresses after logging in at members' webpage.
 
The state of sociology: Need today's data yesterday? Recently updated summaries of trends in the profession to help you and your students get ahead.
 
17-NOV-2003 National policy to promote marriage should be informed by data.
 
14-NOV-2003 Largest national analysis contradicts conventional wisdom that small or private schools better serve adolescent emotional development.
 
03-NOV-2003 ASA Executive Officer statement supporting NIH peer review and NIH-funded research.
 
01-NOV-2003 Contexts magazine Call for Editor.
 
29-OCT-2003 Ominous development in potential congressional threat to integrity of basic science.
 
27-OCT-2003 Policy audience learns useful sociological lessons about natural and intentional disasters at Capitol Hill briefing.
 
21-OCT-2003 Human subjects research protections don't apply to oral history interviews.
 
View contents of the Sept./Oct. 2003 Footnotes newsletter.
 
08-OCT-2003 Statement on the defeat of California's Proposition 54.
 
Comparison of graduate & undergraduate sociology programs.
 
17-SEP-2003 Veteran NASA flight director "kicks" himself for not having taken more college sociology.
 
04-SEP-2003 Democratic presidential campaigns use ASA 2003 award-winning dissertation research findings in debates, speeches.
 
ASA membership is at a four-year high! And the nearly 20,200 section members is a historic high!
 
28-AUG-2003 Congressional assault on peer review is defeated. Social science community is poised for a possible Senate attack.
 
01-AUG-2003 Congress isn't so easily bought, according to researcher.
 
ASA helps welcome new NIH heads.
 
28-JUL-2003 Read the ASA final report on assessing faculty productivity and the final report on diversity issues regarding ASA journals.
 
24-JUL-2003 Visit Contexts magazine's redesigned website. Read press release.
 
10-JUL-2003 Peer review under attack: today!! [7/10/03].
 
View content of July/Aug. 2003 Footnotes newsletter.
 
20-JUN-2003 Catch sociologist Ruth Wallace on Public TV on June 20-22.
 
17-JUN-2003 NSF-funded sociologists discuss research with White House science heads & U.S. Reps. at Capitol Hill exhibition.
 
13-JUN-2003 ASA's first electronic election yields centennial leadership.
 
13-JUN-2003 Membership passes member resolution on war in Iraq. Join a related discussion.
 
New Rose Series publication, America's Newcomers, enters debate on immigration policy.
 
Read sample feature articles in the spring 2003 Contexts magazine: Genetic technology and Saad Ibrahim's letter from Cairo.
 
Egyptian-American sociologist and advocate Saad Ibrahim to be Annual Meeting special guest.
 
28-MAY-2003 ASA's successful Hill briefing held on race data & analysis.
 
21-MAY-2003 Library Journal puts Contexts among the top 10 of new 2002 magazines. Press release.
 
04-MAY-2003 ASA Past-President William J. (Si) Goode died on May 4.
 
Career, job, & fellowship sources for students.
 
Final report on sociology's articulation in two- & four-yr programs.
 
23-FEB-2003 Robert K. Merton died on Feb. 23, 2003.
 
17-FEB-2003 ASA files Supreme Court brief (PDF) supporting the University of Michigan. Press release.
 
04-FEB-2003 Contexts wins prestigious scholarly publication award.