Jozsef Borocz received the "Knights Cross of the Merit of Honor of the Republic" - a high state award bestowed by the President of the Republic of Hungary - for his scholarly contributions.  This follows his receipt of the Doctorate of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Dr. Sc.) a few months earlier.
	Miguel Angel Centeno recently had articles on Latin America published in The American Interest and in the Fall 2007 issue of America's Quarterly.
	After 40 years in academia, Wayne Cornelius retired from UC San Diego in June 2009.  He will continue as Director Emeritus of UCSD’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and is helping to develop a new, multi-campus UC research center on migration and health issues.  He received the 2009 Distinguished Alumnus Award from The College of Wooster (Ohio), and the UC San Diego Academic Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award for 2009.  His latest books include Four Generations: New Research from the Cradle of Mexican Migration (co-edited, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009); Migration from the Mexican Mixteca: A Transnational Community in Oaxaca and California (co-edited, Lynne Rienner, 2009); and Mexican Migration and the U.S. Economic Crisis: A Transnational Perspective (co-edited, Lynne Rienner, forthcoming December 2009).
	NAFTA and Beyond, edited by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Jon Shefner, was published as a Special Issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. The volume is based on proceedings from the conference NAFTA and Beyond: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Global Trade and Development, held at Princeton in December 2005. The conference brought experts from economics, sociology, and other disciplines to discuss alternative strategies for national development with a focus on Mexico.
	Donald Light, associate investigator of the Health and Immigration Study (HIS), completed a conceptual essay based on its results titled, "Institutional Ambivalence and Permanently Failing Health Care: Access by Immigrants and the Categorically Unequal in the Nation and New Jersey". The paper is available through the CMD Working Papers Series here. Donald was chosen as the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in England in 2008 and the Lorrey Lokey Visiting Professor at Stanford for 2009-2010.
	Douglas S. Massey, Professor of Sociology and member of CMD's executive committee, testified before Congress concerning various current proposals on immigration reform. See his testimony.
	Cristina Mora, graduate representative to the Center's Executive Committee, was recently awarded a Provost Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago. The fellowship, which is based in the Department of Sociology, begins in Fall 2009 and will last for two years.
	"Migration and Development: Reconciling Opposite Views," the 2008 Annual Lecture of Ethnic and Racial Studies, delivered by CMD Director Alejandro Portes in London last May, was published in the January 2009 issue of the same journal. He delivered a lecture at Vanderbilt University on February 19 on "Latin American Institutions and Development: Comparative Evidence," summarizing recent results of this NSF-supported study. He also delivered a keynote address at Rutgers University on "Life on the Edge: Immigrants Cope with the American Health System" on April 14, 2009. The lecture and paper are based on the most recent findings from the Immigration and the Health System study (HIS), supported by a Senior Investigator Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Alejandro Portes delivered a lecture on March 12 on "Transnational Organizations and the Political Incorporation of Imigrants in the U.S.," based on a recently completed study supported by the Russell Sage Foundation. Results have been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies in 2008 and in the Journal of International Comparative Sociology in 2009. During his visit to Berkeley, Portes also participated in the opening panel of a conference on Urban Spaces and Ethnicity, organized by graduate students in Sociology. And Dr. Portes occupied the Belle van Zuylen Chair at the University of Utrecht in Holland during the month of June 2009.  In the course of his visit, he delivered a keynote address on “Immigration, Transnational Organizations, and Development” and led three master classes and research roundtables with Dutch, Belgian, and German specialists in immigration issues. He also delivered another public lecture on “Segmented Assimilation in Comparative Perspective” at the Institute for Immigration and Ethnicity Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
	Ruben G. Rumbaut testified before Congress at a May 2007 hearing on immigration reform. See his testimony here on p. 21. His 2007 report, The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation, was released through the DC-based Immigration Policy Center in conjunction with a teleconference for the media and policy makers and is available here. His Southern California research was featured prominently in a major New York Times series on immigration in 2009 ( http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/us/19immig.html and http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/us/19immigsidebar.html) . Rumbaut continues to edit (with Steven J. Gold) a research-oriented book series, "The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society"; under their editorship several dozen titles have been published on a wide range of immigration topics ( http://www.lfbscholarly.com/new_americans/series_na.htm).
	Dan Tichenor recently testified before Congress on immigration reform at a special hearing held at Ellis Island. He also will be assuming a new post in the fall of 2008 as Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science at the University of Oregon and Senior Fellow at the Wayne Morse Center for Public Affairs.
	Min Zhou was named the Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.-China Relations and Communications at UCLA.  She also received the prestigious Chang Jiang Scholars Award from the Peoples Republic of China (a trans-century creative talent program funded by the Ministry of Education of the PRC and Hong Kong Li Ka-Shing Foundation) with the designation of “Chang Jiang Scholars” Lecture Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, China. She has just published her new book, entitled Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation (Temple University Press, 2009). This book offers the most comprehensive sociological investigation of the multifaceted experiences of Chinese immigrants and their offspring in the United States. It includes findings on causes and consequences of emigration from China and remigration from the Chinese diaspora, patterns of residential mobility, community transformation, ethnic organizations, entrepreneurship and the ethnic enclave economy, gender and work, Chinese language media, Chinese school, the immigrant family, the new second generation, and identity.