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	A retirement party was held on May 3, 2008 for Professor Eldon Wegner, who will become an Emeritus Professor after the end of the Spring Semester.>>>
	Marc Smith is a senior research sociologist at Microsoft Research specializing in the social org anization of online communities and computer mediated interaction. He founded and leads the Community Technologies Group at MSR. He is the co-editor of Communities in Cyberspace (Routledge), a collection of essays exploring the ways identity; interaction and social order develop in online groups.>>>
	Professor Herbert Barringer passed away on December 15, 2007, and remembrance was held for him at the 2008 Hawai`i Sociological Association meeting.>>>
	Jane Yamashiro is winner of the 2006 Gary K. Sakihara award. Congratulations! Update on what previous winners are doing now.>>>
	Congratulations to Ryoko Yamamoto, winner of the 2006 Gary K. Sakihara award.>>>
	Pictures from the 2006 American Sociological Association Meetings in Montréal.>>>
	Long-time UHM Sociology Professor Harry Ball passed away on May 16, 2006.>>>
	Our Spring 2006 graduates celebrate their degress.>>>
	Moira DeNike received her PhD in the Winter 2005 graduations.>>>
	Congratulations to all our award winners for 2005. >>>
	TJ Nii, Joyce Ballesteros and Grant Nishiyama won the 2005 Student Employee of Year Team Award in April 2005. >>>
	The 26th Annual Meeting of the Hawai`i Sociological Association was held February 12, 2005. >>>
	The first winner of the Gary Kazuo Sakihara Memorial Scholarship Fund was Orlando Garcia-Santiago received his award in November 2004. >>>