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Author and Assistant Professor of Sociology Esther Sullivan has spent 12 years researching the inequalities plaguing America’s mobile home residents. “Zoning has kept mobile home parks situated along interstates and highways, in industrial and commercial zones, and it has kept them out of residential neighborhoods, making them far more at...

For years, Colorado was in a middle ground for introducing new immigrant-inclusive policies while dealing with past policy implications, said Edelina Burciaga, Sociology Assistant Professor. Now, she said the state has become a leader in pro-immigrant legislation. “I would kind of put Colorado more on the continuum of states that...

The Food and Drug Administration's decision to take the Johnson and Johnson vaccine out of the American market briefly to look into blood clotting is verification that vaccination system is working well, according to Sociology Professor Jennifer Reich. The pause gave the FDA an opportunity to make sure "vaccines remain...

Assistant Professor of Sociology Esther Sullivan, author of the book Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place, said mobile-home parks now compose one of the largest sources of nonsubsidized low-income housing in the country. “How important are they to our national housing stock? Unbelievably important,” Sullivan...

“As people are excited to become vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, they may be overestimating what that protection means,” said Sociology Professor Jennifer Reich. “It’s important that they calibrate their expectations and understand that their behavior after immunization still has to be focused on protecting people around them.” The Vaccinated Class The...

Companies producing COVID-19 vaccines must act sooner rather than later to grapple with the task of communicating and moderating this next period of the pandemic, according to Sociology Professor Jennifer Reich, who has studied vaccine hesitance. “This is not going to be magic,” Reich said. “I think that the way...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s signature “neighborhood policing” program appears to have helped reduce the number of low-level arrests in most precincts — but has done little to slow crime or eliminate racial bias in who gets charged, a new study asserts. Assistant Professor of Sociology Brenden Beck...

Producing a safe and effective vaccine for a disease within a year of that disease's discovery would be unprecedented. Even if "Operation Warp Speed," Trump's initiative to streamline the vaccine development, approval and distribution process, is successful, the number of things that would have to go right for a vaccine...

Sociology Professor Jennifer Reich wasn’t surprised by two recent polls revealing that low numbers of Coloradans actually want to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. The Colorado Health Foundation found nearly one-third of Coloradans surveyed said they would likely not step up to get vaccinated for coronavirus when a vaccine becomes available,...

“Recent protests have demanded that police no longer be used as the first response to social problems like mental health crises and drug addiction. That demand might also extend to excluding police from urban ‘renewal,’” writes Brenden Beck, Assistant Professor of Sociology. The Role Of Police In Gentrification The Appeal...