Please join us this Wednesday (4/9) from 1-3pm for the second MAC workshop of this spring semester, featuring Dr. Arianna Gard from the Department of Psychology. Her talk is entitled: “Random Intercepts Cross-lagged Models using Longitudinal Data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study”. The talk will take place in GEOG Conference Room LeFrak 1158.
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Join the Woodlawn Study Team!
We are excited to share the availability of a 2-year post-doctoral research associate at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Led currently by Dr. Kerry Green, the Woodlawn Study is a longitudinal community cohort study that began as a school-based intervention in 1966. This rich longitudinal study spans over 50 years with the most recent interviews conducted with cohort members at age 62 in 2022-2024. More information about the study can be found at www.woodlawn.umd.edu.
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WorldStrides Envision is seeking CCJS graduate students to participate in a panel discussion for visiting high school students at the University of Maryland, College Park.
The panel will give students insight into graduate school, including the decision-making process, academic experiences, and career opportunities available with advanced degrees. Master’s and Ph.D. students from any year are welcome to participate.
Panel Dates:
If you are interested, please contact Trisha Fullmer at trishaf@worldstrides.com by April 17, 2025.
Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Xinyi Situ
Can human mobility data improve crime forecast? A spatiotemporal analysis of collective human mobility patterns and crime variations in Baltimore City
Time: April 3, 2025, 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Location: 2165E LeFrak Hall
Zoom:https://umd.zoom.us/j/5956152596?pwd=lnFCCuiDQNdMGoYttYtdprHuEhU9Y0.1&omn=96140710951Meeting ID: 595 615 2596
Passcode: 285250
The Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences are pleased to present the 5th Ray Paternoster Memorial Lecture and reception in honor of Professor Ray Paternoster to celebrate his life and scholarship in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the profession.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 from 1:30-2:15 p.m. in the University of Maryland, College Park, Stamp, Juan Ramon Jimenez 2208. A reception will take place immediately after the lecture, from 2:15-4 p.m., in the University of Maryland, College Park, Stamp, Benjamin Banneker 2212. Please find the registration link here.
This year’s featured speaker is Tracey L. Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor and a Founding Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. Professor Meares is a nationally recognized expert on policing in urban communities. For more information, visit here.
Sonyah Ngwafang: Silent Struggles: Examining Racial Disparities in Mental Health Treatment for Justice-Involved Individuals
Karilyn Shin: Adolescent Police Stop Invasiveness, Legal Cynicism, and Adulthood Criminal Involvement*
Emilia Heintz: Housing First or Criminalization: Evaluating the Police’s Role in D.C. Homelessness,
Bronwyn G. Morris: Examining Homicide Changes by Neighborhood in Washington, DC
Date: Monday, May 5, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: 2208 LeFrak Hall
Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95065057598?pwd=rfRrFL3XqhIdPp4UGtcQWb0vUP2p4I.1
Meeting ID: 950 6505 7598
Passcode: Honors2025
Our second-year CCJS honors students are gearing up to defend their theses in the coming weeks. As part of the University’s requirements, at least two faculty members must be present for each defense.
We hope you will join in person, when possible, but to facilitate participation, we are offering defenses in a hybrid fashion (in person and via Zoom).
Faculty members and graduate students: For defenses you know you can attend, please respond to Guyu Sun (guyusun@umd.edu) with the date and time. This will help us ensure the two-faculty minimum and get a rough headcount.
A note about timing: Defenses begin at 2 pm and follow a 30-minute rotation. The rotation allows attendees to pop in and out when needed. Each defense will run 30 minutes, with a 17-minute student presentation followed by a 13-minute Q&A.
Our students have worked very hard over the last two years and are excited to share their work with you. Having our stellar faculty and graduate students take an interest in their projects, reflecting on their ideas, and asking questions is a highlight of their program participation.
Anna Petersen: The Association between Ghost Gun Usage and Neighborhood Disadvantage
Jacqueline Penna: Conformity or Rebellion? Childhood Religious Environments and Future Delinquency
Gemma Cadenaro: The Impact of Combat Exposure on Post-Service Arrest in All-Volunteer Force Veterans
Tara Kelly: Examining the Association Between Adolescent Mental Illness, Mental Health Treatment, and Adult Justice System Involvement
Date: Monday, April 28, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: 2208 LeFrak Hall
Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95065057598?pwd=rfRrFL3XqhIdPp4UGtcQWb0vUP2p4I.1
Meeting ID: 950 6505 7598
Passcode: Honors2025
Our second-year CCJS honors students are gearing up to defend their theses in the coming weeks. As part of the University’s requirements, at least two faculty members must be present for each defense.
We hope you will join in person, when possible, but to facilitate participation, we are offering defenses in a hybrid fashion (in person and via Zoom).
Faculty members and graduate students: For defenses you know you can attend, please respond to Guyu Sun (guyusun@umd.edu) with the date and time. This will help us ensure the two-faculty minimum and get a rough headcount.
A note about timing: Defenses begin at 2 pm and follow a 30-minute rotation. The rotation allows attendees to pop in and out when needed. Each defense will run 30 minutes, with a 17-minute student presentation followed by a 13-minute Q&A.
Our students have worked very hard over the last two years and are excited to share their work with you. Having our stellar faculty and graduate students take an interest in their projects, reflecting on their ideas, and asking questions is a highlight of their program participation.
Nicole Meza: The Association between Recreational Cannabis Legalization and Drug Seizure Rates
Cydney Simmons: Beyond the Classroom: Examining the Associations of Skin Tone and Suspension with Arrest among Black Girls*
Jane Goldsmith: Examining the Association between Sexual Assault Prevention Programs and Bystander Intervention Among Greek Life Students: A Mixed Method Design*
Ever Sheplee: Analyzing Academic Achievement and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Date: Monday, April 21, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: 2208 LeFrak Hall
Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95065057598?pwd=rfRrFL3XqhIdPp4UGtcQWb0vUP2p4I.1
Meeting ID: 950 6505 7598
Passcode: Honors2025
Our second-year CCJS honors students are gearing up to defend their theses in the coming weeks. As part of the University’s requirements, at least two faculty members must be present for each defense.
We hope you will join in person, when possible, but to facilitate participation, we are offering defenses in a hybrid fashion (in person and via Zoom).
Faculty members and graduate students: For defenses you know you can attend, please respond to Guyu Sun (guyusun@umd.edu) with the date and time. This will help us ensure the two-faculty minimum and get a rough headcount.
A note about timing: Defenses begin at 2 pm and follow a 30-minute rotation. The rotation allows attendees to pop in and out when needed. Each defense will run 30 minutes, with a 17-minute student presentation followed by a 13-minute Q&A.
Our students have worked very hard over the last two years and are excited to share their work with you. Having our stellar faculty and graduate students take an interest in their projects, reflecting on their ideas, and asking questions is a highlight of their program participation.
Applications for the Mercatus Graduate Student Fellowships close this week on March 15, 2025! Graduate students at any university and in any discipline are eligible to apply. All fellowships still open to applications are listed below.
We offer fellowships for students at George Mason University, for students pursuing other degrees at universities around the world, for high school students, and for early-career scholars.
Mercatus Center Fellowships expose participants to the ideas of mainline political economy and their real-world implications through robust discussion; provide financial assistance, exposure to scholars, and research experience; and connect fellows to an extensive alumni network.
Successful fellows have gone on to pursue careers in academia as well as public policy positions in federal and state governments and at prominent research institutions.
To learn more about our fellowships and apply, browse our fellowships below or visit our website.
The University of Maryland Department of Behavioral and Community Health in the School of Public Health has an outstanding opportunity for an independent and well-organized contributor to serve as a RESEARCH COORDINATOR to Dr. Sarah Peitzmeier (Department of Behavioral and Community Health) to help rigorously evaluate novel, impactful interventions for sexual violence prevention as part of our mission to work toward a world without gender-based violence. At the Peitzmeier lab, our mission is to conduct rigorous, community-engaged, high-impact research to end gender-based violence against women and gender minority people.
The primary overarching goal of this position is to help rigorously execute a complex $2 million multisite randomized controlled trial testing the efficacy of a campus sexual assault prevention intervention that we hope will halve the prevalence of campus sexual assault for undergraduate women. The position is funded 90% by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (description here: https://webapps.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/decisions/p/project_details.html?applId=462223&lang=en&wbdisable=true) and 10% on other projects.
This research coordinator position is essential to that mission through research development and implementation. The scope of the work includes managing recruitment and data collection at 2-4 US college campuses in a large multi-site randomized controlled trial testing a sexual assault prevention intervention for undergraduate women. In this role, the research coordinator will manage recruitment and one-year of longitudinal follow-up for at least 600 participants at these sites, manage relationships with campus stakeholders across the sites, hire and manage two research assistants at the University of Maryland, design systems for effective rollout of the trial across sites, and ensure implementation fidelity of protocols across sites.
The Research Coordinator, will be a vital member of a multidisciplinary team that includes approximately 30 staff and collaborators across the trial sites. They will take lead roles on project activities identified by the team. The position’s direct supervisor and PI for the project is Dr. Sarah Peitzmeier. The research coordinator will also work with Co-PI Dr. Charlene Senn (University of Windsor) and trial manager (trials across US and Canada) Dr. Courtney Williston. Applicants from under-represented backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.
We seek highly competent, can-do candidates with excellent communication skills who understand the importance of prioritizing the mission and community-based partner collaboration. An intellectually curious, self-motivated learner who take ownership of tasks and effectively executes them to completion, who is intentional when asking for clarification, help, or support as needed will be successful in this position. . . This individual should enjoy giving and receiving open and respectful feedback as a vehicle for the growth and self-development of self and colleagues, and to support the aims of the research. The ideal candidate will be systems-minded with a knack for designing systems that support high-quality data collection, anticipating and responding to potential issues with the trial, and problem-solving research roadblocks. Commitment to integrity and excellence is an essential requirement for the position.
The School of Public Health (SPH) at the University of Maryland College Park was first accredited as a School in 2010. However, beginning in the 1960’s the Department of Health Education in the College of Physical Education, Recreation, and Health was created and by 1999 had an accredited MPH degree program in public health that served as the foundation for launching the School of Public Health a short eight years later. This MPH in Community Health was the model for the public health degrees that would follow with the official launching of the school. Within the department, this includes a B.S. in Community Health, an MPH and a PhD in Behavioral and Community Health.
Our proximity to both our state and national capitals provide unparalleled opportunities for faculty and students to work with key government health agencies, non-profit associations, public policy organizations, and private corporations. Our department uniquely offers its undergraduates a semester-long full-time internships for our students to take advantage of this proximity but also uniquely offers these same style internships internationally.
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Required Application Materials: CV and Cover Letter
Optional: writing sample
Best Consideration Date: March 17, 2025
Open Until Filled: Yes