Read a tribute from Social Science Research editor, James D. Wright.
STEVEN NOCK directed the Marriage Matters Project which studies covenant marriages. He offered his expertise to the Family Foundation, which formed a commission to develop policy recommendations for the Commonwealth of Virginia concerning marriage and divorce. A Washington Post article discusses his research and views on marriage, cohabitation, and divorce.

Steven Nock won the Distinguished Scholar Award posthumously at the 2008 ASA. The award is given to that scholar who has made outstanding scholarly contributions to the sociological study of the family. He was recognized yet again for his record of extraordinary productivity, his profound grasp of the institution of marriage and the family, and his selfless service to the discipline.

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• Prof. Olick gave a keynote address at Australian National University Dec. 12-14, 2007. GOVERNING BY LOOKING BACK: How History Matters in Society, Politics and Government, is a conference organized by the Research School of Social Sciences of the Australian National University.
• View his recent interview published in the culture pages of the Tallinn, Estonia newspaper.
• Prof. Olick received a Swinburne Visiting Professor Award. He will work with colleagues at Swinburne’s Institute for Social Research in Melbourne, Australia to research issues of historical justice. View Swinburne's press release.
• Jeffrey Olick's work on collective memory will be the subject of  a 'supersession' at the annual meeting of The Rhetoric Society of America in May.
• Prof. Olick's book on memory studies and social structures, The Politics of Regret, is featured in a review essay by Patrick Hutton in the latest issue of History and Theory. View review here.
  

• Josipa Roksa has been awarded the University Teaching Fellowship. The UTF Program aims to help UVA's most intellectually sound and successful junior faculty members develop into exceptionally fine teachers. Thus the selection committee—comprised of award-winning faculty—seeks to choose each year junior faculty members who show promise of becoming both eminent researchers and inspiring teachers. Go to the UTF website for more info on the program or view the UVA Today article.
• Prof. Roksa has been named the National Forum Fellow. As a Fellow, she will participate in the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education funded by the Teagle Foundation. The three-year program is designed to identify and prepare a core national group of emerging academic leaders to guide the future of the liberal arts. For more information on the Forum, click here.

• Prof. Brad Wilcox's study on churchgoing men is featured in an articles from UVa Today. His brief can also be seen online at the Center for Marriage and Families website. Just prior to Father's Day 2008, he discussed the effect of religion on fatherhood and families in the Wall Street Journal.
• Brad Wilcox shares his views on religion and teen sexuality in a paper [view .pdf] for the Russell Sage Foundation. His argument is also discussed in an article from the Washington Post, and he was mentioned in the Nov. 2, 2007 issue of Time Magazine.
• Brad Wilcox is one of many sociologists and psychologists commenting on teenage marriage in an article from the September 4, 2008 New York Times after recent discussion in the news on the issue.
• Brad Wilcox offers his insight in a new article appearing in the Boston Globe discussing conservative thinkers and the Republican party.
• Professor Wilcox is also mentioned in another article in the New York Times, reporting on how financial problems relate to divorce rates. View article here.
• See Prof. Wilcox's other articles in the Wall Street Journal discussing religion, government and the rise of secularism in America, how marriage, divorce, and co-habitation affects children, or young and nonmorital childbearing.