Janice McCabe is an associate professor of sociology at Dartmouth College and author of Connecting in College. Her research explores how students make and keep friends as well as how their friendship networks help or hurt their academic and social success.

In this episode we discuss:

• The different types of friend network structures Janice discovered in her research
• How gender and race show up in the context of Janice's work on networks
• The nature of multiplex ties and how they help students maintain friendships over time