Professor Emily Rauscher and Ph.D. Candidate Ailish Burns explain in a podcast by Research Minutes how higher COVID-19 deaths with later school closures were found. Closing school is more strongly related to COVID-19 deaths in counties with a high concentration of Black or poor residents, suggesting schools play an unequal role in transmission and earlier school closure is related to fewer lives lost in disadvantaged counties.
On the Trending Globally Podcast, Sarah Baldwin talks with Professor Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve about why convicting police officers of crimes in the U.S. is so incredibly rare.
Michael Kennedy has published an article in The Progressive Post where he discusses "the cultural politics defining the 2020 Election" detailing divisions within the United States, misinformation, and risings of extremism. "America is not only more divided than progressives imagined. What is worse is that we are polarized in ways that Trump conjures."
On August 31st the Polish movement, Solidarność, can be called 40 years old. This time in 1980, an agreement was signed allowing for the formation of the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union Solidarity. In the middle of July 2020, Prof. Michael Kennedy recorded a video for a Polish foundation, Centrum Historii Zajezdnia, reflecting on what Solidarity was 40 years ago, and where we might see it today.
Rebecca Wang has successfully defended her dissertation entitled: "Situating Migration in the Family: Migration and Family Instability in South African and Kenya."