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2024 PSTC Call for Graduate Student Summer Research Awards
April 10, 2024
The PSTC is now accepting applications from graduate students for summer 2024 research awards. Summer research support nurtures research projects consistent with the PSTC’s mission to promote innovative and high-quality...
Brown at PAA
April 3, 2024
Appearances of Brown University Faculty, Researchers, and Students at the PAA 2024 Annual Meeting | April 17-20, 2024 | Columbus, OH
PSTC Call for Proposals for Mellon Anthropological Demography Awards
March 28, 2024
The PSTC welcomes proposals to advance Brown’s research and distinctive reputation in anthropological demography.
Pandemic Journaling Project Made Accessible to Researchers at New Long-Term Home
March 1, 2024
Researchers studying the COVID-19 pandemic will maintain wide access to this paradigm-shifting historical record at its new placement at Syracuse University
Investigating the Link Between Intra-Occupation Job Variation and Gender Segregation in the Workplace
January 31, 2024
Sociologist Ananda Martin-Caughey is re-examining social survey data to analyze the impacts of job title stratification.
Entrepreneurial Responses to Infrastructure Failures in Nigeria
December 18, 2023
PSTC researcher Daniel Jordan Smith’s 2022 book documents how citizen-government relationships in Nigeria have been impacted by the state’s infrastructural shortcomings.
The Launch of a Project on Mesoamerican Migration
November 16, 2023
Using innovative survey techniques, the project aims to comprehensively document the experiences of migrants to the U.S. from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
A Community-Driven Project to Analyze Local Drug Supply
October 17, 2023
As part of the TestRI research project, PSTC epidemiologist Alexandra B. Collins worked alongside RI community partners to better understand and mitigate local overdose risk.
PSTC Researcher Investigates Social Determinants of Gender Differences in Dementia
September 5, 2023
Assistant Professor of Population Studies Meghan Zacher explores potential link between educational inequality and women’s increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
In the News
Emily Oster Tackles Pregnancy Complications in New Book
May 7, 2024 | CBS News | Emily Oster
Author Emily Oster, known for her influential book "Expecting Better," introduces her fourth book, "The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications."
Peter Hull discusses I.G.N.I.T.E.’s mission
May 3, 2024 | The Metro on WDET.org | Peter Hull
I.G.N.I.T.E., a program at Genessee County Jail, is lowering the number of people re-entering the system. Peter Hull, professor of economics at Brown University and the author of a study on the jail’s program, joined the...
Is it the school, or the students?
April 23, 2024 | Science Daily | Peter Hull
Study shows perceptions of 'good' schools are heavily dependent on the preparation of the students entering them.
Journaling project keeps a record of COVID-19 pandemic
April 11, 2024 | WBUR | Kate Mason
Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Anthropologist Kate Mason about the Pandemic Journaling Project and how important it is to have a record of this time.
Global Displacement Crisis: Over 108 Million People Displaced with Children Bearing the Brunt
April 4, 2024 | Il Mattino | Dany Bahar
In 2023, over 108 million people have been forced to flee worldwide, and 41% of these are children under the age of 18. This creates disparities in human development between migrant children and adolescents and those of...
We’ve Been Underestimating Discrimination
March 27, 2024 | Chicago Booth Review | Peter Hull
New methods of measuring racism and sexism find a larger, systemic impact.
“No Fear or Danger of Their Forgetting it:” Revitalizing Wôpanâak from John Eliot’s Bible
March 22, 2024 | The Magazine of the Harvard Crimson | Linford Fisher
Deep in the basement of Harvard’s Indian College, John Eliot worked for 14 years to translate and print the Bible. Completed in 1663, Eliot’s Bible was written in Wôpanâak, the language of local Native American tribes.
Annenberg: Providence teacher resignations problematic
March 14, 2024 | Providence Business News | John Papay
In its latest look at teacher staffing in the Providence Public School District, the Annenberg Institute at Brown University says it finds cause “for optimism” in how teachers are being retained in the state’s largest...