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.

PSTC faculty associate Mark Lurie discusses the coronavirus epidemic in a podcast with the Providence Journal.

PSTC faculty associate John Friedman discusses how to make college admissions more equitable.

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.

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.

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. 

In January 2020, the PSTC will co-sponsor the inaugural conference of the Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement, in U.N. City, Copenhagen.

PSTC Associate Emily Rauscher answers children's questions about school.

“The group has been able to foster intellectual community around migration and build on strengths in migration studies through productive exchange of work.”

A pervasive view of males as uncontrollable animals not only sells them short, but may encourage problematic practices.

Galor's work has been influential in building economists' understanding of the relationship between inequality, growth and human evolution.

PSTC Associate David Savitz receives prestigious honor.

Students learn less when teachers are hired after the start of the school year.

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."