{"id":6502,"date":"2013-03-05T14:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T19:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=6502"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:42:14","slug":"2013-excellence-in-professional-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/2013-excellence-in-professional-service-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Excellence in Professional Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Jim Wright who was selected to receive one of two university 2013 Excellence in Professional Service awards.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wright\u00a0is an author, educator, and the Provost\u2019s Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Central Florida.\u00a0 Wright also serves as the Director of the UCF Institute for Social and Behavioral Sciences, as editor-in-chief of the journal\u00a0<em>Social Science Research<\/em>, and as editor-in-chief of the\u00a0<em>International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences,\u00a0<\/em>2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0edition, forthcoming in 2015 from Elsevier.<\/p>\n<p>He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1973 and taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Tulane University before coming to UCF in 2001. \u00a0He has published twenty-one books and more than 300 journal articles, book chapters, essays, reviews, and polemics on topics ranging from poverty to homelessness to guns in America to NASCAR to survey and evaluation research methods. 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