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Grace Meier, RA for associate professor Jenjira Yahirun's NIA-R15 funded project and an incoming graduate student, won an award for top poster presentation for her research poster with graduate assistant Jaycob Applegate (Ph.D. student) and Jenjira, at the 2026 Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship (CURS) Symposium held on April 18.

Sociology teaching professor Margaret Weinberger was presented with the 2026 Faculty Senate Distinguished Service Award. 

Sociology associate professor Jenjira Yahirun received the 2026 Olscamp Research Award, which recognizes outstanding scholarly or creative accomplishments during the previous three-year period. 

Sociology professor Monica Longmore (with undergraduate RAs Grady Schulz and Audrey Simon, GA Sara Rosa) received the 2026 Elliott L. Blinn Award for Faculty-Undergraduate Student Innovative Basic Research/Creative Work.

Peggy Giordano is this year's recipient of theLifetime Achievement Awardof the Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology at the American Society of Criminology. The award committee chair noted that Peggy's record stands out for her remarkable achievements and continuing high-quality contributions to the field.

The Center for Aging Families has been funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA/NIH) P30 center grant award. This six-year, $4.2 million project unites scholars from Ohio State, Purdue, and Bowling Green State universities to advance demographic and economic research on aging and families. The Center is co-directed by the four PIs of the grant award: Susan Brown (BGSU), Rin Reczek and Sarah Hayford (Ohio State), and Hui Liu (Purdue).