Sociology doctoral candidate Matthew Thompson has received a $25,000 grant from the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research to complete his dissertation on police shootings. Thompson’s research focuses on how the organizational structure of police agencies and their use-of-force policies influence their rates of officer-involved shootings.
Award-winning author and sociologist Aldon Morris will visit Davis on Thursday, May 10 to give a talk, “W. E. B. Du Bois at the Center: From Science, Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.”