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New Research Published on Disability and Mortality Disparity
Earlier this month, Associate Professor of Sociology Scott Landes published a new study entitled 鈥淒isability Mortality Disparity: Risk Of Mortality For Disabled Adults Nearly Twice That For Nondisabled Adults, 2008鈥19鈥 in the聽August edition of Health Affairs journal. The report is…
Law Professor鈥檚 Research Uses Artificial Intelligence to Improve Fairness of Criminal Court Scheduling
A College of Law professor who is an expert on criminal court pretrial appearance is partnering with computer science faculty to see if artificial intelligence tools and optimized data analysis can improve fairness and efficiency in scheduling defendants鈥 court dates….
鈥楢 Lovely Legacy鈥: Falk College Remembers Professor Emerita Sarah ‘Sally’ Short 聽
By 1975, Sarah 鈥淪ally鈥 Short, Ph.D., Ed.D., was already a legend on the 黑料不打烊 campus. But on Jan. 3, 1975, she became world famous when an article appeared in The New York Times describing her unique teaching methods. The…
Maxwell School Announces 2 New Chairs and Trio of Directors for 2024-25
Several Maxwell School faculty have been promoted to leadership roles, including Junko Takeda, who has been named chair of the Citizenship and Civic Engagement (CCE) Undergraduate Program after serving in an interim role since July 2023, and Leonard M. Lopoo,…
David Popp Co-Chairs National Academy of Sciences Committee
David Popp, professor of public administration and international affairs and Caroline Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy, is helping lead a National Academy of Sciences committee studying the role and impacts of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)…
Chemistry Professor Collaborates With Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tiny but mighty semiconductors named Quantum dots (Qdots) could someday drive hyper-powerful computers. Qdots are crystals squeezed in a space just a few nanometers in diameter. They are used today in products such as solar cells or LEDs and work…
Physics Professor Craig Cahillane Wins 2024 ARPA-E IGNIITE Award
Craig Cahillane, assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named an Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2024 (IGNIITE 2024) award recipient. As one of only 23 winners across the…
3 Faculty Members Awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar Fellowships
Three 黑料不打烊 faculty members have been awarded prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar fellowships to teach and conduct research abroad. The awardees are: Harriet Brown, professor and director of the graduate program in magazine, news and digital journalism in the Newhouse…
What Does It Take to Keep the Olympic Games Safe?: Q&A With Emergency Management Instructor Tony Callisto
As more than 10,000 athletes have prepared to take part in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, so too have the security personnel tasked with keeping the Olympic Village and athletic venues safe. Tony Callisto, College of Professional Studies…
Prema Kurien Recognized as Maxwell School’s Daicoff Faculty Scholar
Prema Kurien, professor of sociology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has been recognized as a Daicoff Faculty Scholar. The distinction honors her achievements in research, scholarship and service. Kurien joined Maxwell in 2003. She is a…