News and Highlights

  • Spotlight News

    autism

    L.A. Confidential: Seeking Reasons for Autism's Rise

    Why is a child born in northwest Los Angeles four times as likely to be diagnosed with autism as a child born elsewhere in California?  Former ISERP Director Peter Bearman's work on the sociological determinants of autism is featured in the Wall Street Journal on February 1, 2010.  Learn more about Bearman's ongoing NIH-supported autism research here.

    » read more

  • Spotlight News

    Effects of the Underground Economy on Haiti's Recovery

    ISERP Director, Sudhir Venkatesh, discussed the possible positive effects of informal trade in developing nations such as Haiti in a New York Times Op-Ed article published on 1/16/10.

    » read more

  • Spotlight Education

    Half a Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

    In Newsweek on November 14, 2009, ISERP Faculty Fellow and Allan Nevins Professor of American History, Alan Brinkley made an argument for the relevance of humanities education in a science and technology obsessed global economy.

     

    » read more

  • Spotlight Research

    How the Mind Grasps Climate Change

    Despite mounting scientific evidence, according to a recent poll, fewer than half of Americans believe that global warming is caused by human activity. ISERP’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) released a report on November 4th, 2009, titled The Psychology of Climate Change Communication, examining how the human mind processes information and reaches conclusions about whether or not action is necessary. The report focuses on climate change and investigates effective communication strategies for scientists, journalists, and educators so they can effectively present the facts about global warming.

    » read more

  • Spotlight News

    The Future of Journalism

     

    Michael Schudson, Program Director for ISERP’s Communications Colloquium seminar series and Professor of Journalism, was featured in the New York Times on October 18th, 2009, for his recommendations on the future of print journalism. The report, titled the "Reconstruction of American Journalism" was commissioned by the Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, Nicholas Lemann, and was written in conjunction with the former Executive Editor of the Washington Post, Leonard Downie Jr.. It outlines a new approach for the future of journalism in the United States.

     

    » read more

  • Spotlight Research

    "Coal Country" and the Climate Debate

     

    ISERP Faculty Fellow Dana Fisher’s work on environmental politics was featured in the New York Times on November 2, 2009. Fisher weighs in on the political impact that US Senators from coal producing states will have on legislation placing a mandatory cap on greenhouse gasses.

     

    » read more

  • Spotlight Faculty Awards

    NIH New Innovator Award

    ISERP would like to congratulate Naa Oyo A. Kwate who was recognized with the prestigious 2009 NIH New Innovator Award for Exceptional Creativity and Promise, for her research on the negative effects of multiple levels of racism on African Americans' health. Kwate is an assistant professor of Sociomedical Science at the Mailman School of Public Health and a member of the RWJ Health & Society Scholars affiliated faculty. Her research stemmed from an H&SS funded grant awarded in Spring 2008.

     

    » read more

  • Spotlight Research

    Building a Healthcare Coverage Mandate

    The Washington Post featured ISERP Faculty Fellow Sherry Glied’s research examining healthcare choice in article on October 26, 2009. The article, as part of the paper's ongoing series on healthcare reform, discussed the penalties and incentives being proposed to enforce a proposed healthcare mandate across the United States.

     

    » read more

  • Spotlight Research

    Do "manly men" get sick more often?

    RWJ Health & Society Scholar, Kristen Springer was featured in the New York Times for her presentation at the August meeting of the American Sociological Association. Her work on connections between what Springer calls, the “John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone archetype of masculinity,“ and health indicates that macho men may actually get sick more often.

    » read more

 


Syndicated News Feed

Monday February 8

QMSS Open House

QMSS Open House for potential students. We encourage current students and alumni to join us as well as it's an excellent time to catch up and share your experiences with the incoming class.


Wednesday February 10

Michael Kearns (Pennsylvania)

Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Social Networks

509 Knox Hall 12:00 - 1:00pm


Wednesday February 10

Oral History MA Program Open House

Faculty, Alumni, Current Students and Guest Speaker Adam Bush will all be in attendance. Refreshments will be served.

Room 301, Philosophy 6:00 - 7:00pm


Thursday February 11

Vivek Sharma (Yale)

A Social Theory of War: Clausewitz and War Reconsidered

Add this event to your Google Calendar by clicking here:

Room 801, IAB 4:15 - 6:00pm

PDF

Thursday February 11

Hana Shepherd (Princeton)

Choosing the Ideas of Foreign Relations: Study Groups and Books in the Council on Foreign Relations

Location TBA 6:00 - 8:00pm


Thursday February 11

Vince Gennaro (Sports Management)

Factors that Determine A Player’s Value in Baseball’s Free Agent Market

Room 503, Hamilton Hall 6:30 - 8:30pm


Thursday February 11

Human Rights in Iran: Discussion and Film Screening

Discussion and screening of selected clips of the films Heaven’s Taxi and Iran Zendan

Room 407, IAB 8:15 - 10:15pm


Tuesday February 16

George Rupp (President of the International Rescue Committee and former president of Columbia University

Local Conflicts as a Global Challenge

Room 1501, IAB 6:30 - 8:00pm


Thursday February 18

Rasmus Nielsen

Organizing and Diversity in U.S. Congressional Campaigns

Room 801, IAB 11:30am - 1:00pm


ISERP

Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy

Columbia University
International Affairs Building

420 West 118th Street
8th Floor, Mail Code 3355
New York, New York 10027

Tel. 212-854-3081
Fax 212-854-8925
iserp@columbia.edu

www.iserp.columbia.edu