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PSTC trainees graduating
Five PSTC trainees will receive their PhDs from Brown this weekend.
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Cultural Anthropology: Fieldsights
Missing the Revolution with Covid-19: On Hindsight and Ethnographic Expertise
Faculty associate Kate Mason comments on her early assumptions about Covid-19.
Faculty associate John Friedman comments on unemployment during the COVID pandemic.
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PSTC Awards Seed Funding for COVID-19 Research
Three faculty associates have received support for research projects exploring COVID-19 and its consequences at the population level.
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Owens named WT Grant Foundation Scholar
The WT Grant Foundation funds research focused on improving outcomes for America’s children and youth, with a particular focus on how to reduce inequality as well as how policymakers and practitioners use research evidence.
Faculty associate Michael White comments on the potential for population shifts in New York City due to the coronavirus.
Faculty associate Stephen McGarvey and colleagues use both archaeological and genomic evidence to study early Samoan populations.
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Bias in Estimating Income Segregation in the U.S.
New work by PSTC faculty associates Logan and Foster highlights systematic bias in estimating income segregation in the U.S.
PSTC faculty associate Mark Lurie comments on the epidemic curve.
Emily Rauscher discusses her recent work on COVID-19 and Twitter's role in sharing research.
PSTC faculty associate and Professor of Economics David Weil discusses the economic impacts of the pandemic.
Three PSTC faculty associates comment on how their areas of expertise might be relevant in understanding the COVID-19 pandemic.
PSTC faculty associate Andrea Flores discusses the sacrifices older siblings make for younger siblings' education.
The New York Times
Peaks, Testing, Lockdowns: How Coronavirus Vocabulary Causes Confusion
Faculty associate Mark Lurie comments on how COVID-19 cases are reported.
Three sociology trainees have received NSF support for dissertation research on diverse issues of inequality.
Plan A Magazine
COVID-19 and Imaginaries of China
PSTC Postdoctoral Fellow Grazia Deng, an anthropologist, discusses anti-Chinese sentiment in the age of coronavirus.
Hechinger Report
Labeling kids with mild disabilities can backfire, study finds
Research on childhood ADHD diagnoses by PSTC faculty associate Jayanti Owens is highlighted.
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Faculty Associate Escudero Receives NSF CAREER Award
Kevin Escudero has received a CAREER award from NSF for his work on the educational trajectories of students with different legal statuses.
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PSTC junior scholars make their mark
We spoke with four junior scholars who are already making their marks in their respective fields to learn more about their work and some of the benefits of being PSTC faculty associates.
From the Newsroom: The Providence Journal
Mark Lurie, Brown University epidemiologist,discusses COVID-19
PSTC faculty associate Mark Lurie discusses the coronavirus epidemic in a podcast with the Providence Journal.
The New York Times
A Simple Way to Equalize the Ivies? Give Others the Legacy SAT Bonus
PSTC faculty associate John Friedman discusses how to make college admissions more equitable.
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PSTC Faculty Spotlight: Kevin Mwenda
Q&A with PSTC faculty associate Kevin Mwenda, Associate Director of Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) and Assistant Professor (Research) of Population Studies.
PSTC faculty associate Kate Mason comments on the potential consequences of overreacting to the coronavirus outbreak.
Girija Borker studies the consequences of sexual harassment in public spaces for women's education.
PSTC faculty associate Kate Mason comments on the potential for a new global pandemic.
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Money matters for achievement of low-income students
Rauscher finds that school bonds increase equality of opportunity for low-income students.
PSTC Faculty Associate Matthew Gutmann debunks the myth that biological determinism drives and explains human male violence.
Ogunbajo and Agbai are current scholars in this prestigious program from RWJF.
The Nation
What Never-Ending War Does to Kids
PSTC Alum Andrea Mazzarino considers the effects of war on children's education.
Elizabeth Fussell has received recent attention for her research on inequality in post-disaster recovery, as well as on migration trends amid rising sea levels.
Vermont Public Radio
Why Do We Have to Go to School?
PSTC Associate Emily Rauscher answers children's questions about school.
In January 2020, the PSTC will co-sponsor the inaugural conference of the Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement, in U.N. City, Copenhagen.
“The group has been able to foster intellectual community around migration and build on strengths in migration studies through productive exchange of work.”
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Gutmann's book sheds light on masculinity myths
A pervasive view of males as uncontrollable animals not only sells them short, but may encourage problematic practices.
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Honors for Oded Galor
Galor's work has been influential in building economists' understanding of the relationship between inequality, growth and human evolution.
National Academy of Medicine
National Academy of Medicine Honors Three Members for Outstanding Service
PSTC Associate David Savitz receives prestigious honor.
Students learn less when teachers are hired after the start of the school year.
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Schrank on rebuilding labor power in the postindustrial U.S.
Explores the decline of union power, alternative representation options, and the increasingly unequal distribution of power.
Savitz’s service has helped the National Academy of Medicine serve the nation and the international community.
New infrastructure for HIV research will help build a foundation for new interventions to fight the spread of HIV within some of the country’s most vulnerable populations.
“Recognizing the important role that fathers, mothers and other adults play in the health-seeking behavior of boys and girls, and especially in rural areas, is crucial to getting adolescents into formal health system for information and treatment.”
"Simply ending the one-child policy, without additional institutional measures that address the issue of work-life incompatibility for women, may not successfully boost fertility level."
Balancing Rigor, Replication, and Relevance.
The Boston Globe
Miracle on the Mystic: Chelsea, Everett, and the New American Dream
"The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility," a study coauthored by Economist John Friedman.
NGOs, government agencies, and scholars have been trying to increase awareness and involvement of young men in SRH matters for at least three decades, with mixed results at best.
BBC Radio
The Problem with Boys
Why are boys failing at school? What can be done about it? And, can experts agree on root causes? Jayanti Owens provides commentary based on her education and gender research.
The postpartum period is a major life transition that most women go through, often multiple times.
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Economic incentives to improve HIV prevention and treatment
Omar Galárraga explores innovative approach to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of HIV in low-income and middle-income countries.
Washington Examiner
What do you think of the economy? Depends on which party you're in
Jesse Shapiro provides insight on political polarization.
Katherine Mason discusses how the 2003 outbreak of the SARS virus drastically changed China's public health system.