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.
	In 2005, Wayne Cornelius received the UCSD Academic Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the UCSD Latino Students’ Award for Faculty Mentoring.  His current research projects include a comparative study of the impacts of immigration control policies on Mexico-to-U.S. migration and Latin American/African migration to Spain and a study of binational political incorporation among U.S.-based Mexican immigrants.  This research is supported by the Ford Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, and the International Metropolis Project/Foundation Population, Migration, and Environment (Zurich, Switzerland).  He has recently co-authored/co-edited several books, including Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective (Stanford University Press, 2004); Impacts of U.S. Immigration Control Policies on Mexican Migration: The View from Sending Communities (CCIS/Lynne Rienner Publishers, forthcoming); Mexican Migration to the United States: The View from a New Sending Community (CCIS/Lynne Rienner Publishers, forthcoming), and Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico (University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming).
	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 has returned from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study to work with Alejandro Portes on his Investigator Award project concerning the interface between immigration and the health care system. In January 2008, Light was invited to discuss with legislative staff of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Committee on Ways and Means how they might best address access and affordability problems for prescription drugs. In the spring of 2008, Light will be the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in sociology in the United Kingdom, and then he will return to complete the current phase of the project on challenges in meeting the health needs of immigrants.
	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.
	CMD Director Alejandro Portes received the annual prize for scientific reviewing from the National Academy of Sciences at a ceremony in Washington DC in late April 2008. The citation mentions his contributions to the understanding of social capital and immigrant transnationalism. The award rotates annually among the sciences represented in the academy and is only awarded once every five years in the social and political sciences. Portes is a member of the editorial board of the NAS journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Portes delivered the annual lecture sponsored by the English journal Ethnic and Racial Studies at an event at City University of London in early May 2008. The topic was the relationship between international migration and national development, and it will be published in a forthcoming issue of ERS
	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.
	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.