News and Highlights

  • Spotlight Politics

    “ObamaCare”?

    On November 18, 2009, ISERP Faculty Fellow Andrew Gelman and Applied Statistics Center Research Associate Daniel Lee, coauthored an opinion piece in the New York Times exploring connections between presidential popularity at home and a lawmaker’s support for healthcare reform. The authors compared lawmakers’ public statements and their positions on the bill to public opinion in their home states using the National Annenberg Election Surveys. The op-ed was also coauthored by Nate Silver of the popular politics bog fivethirtyeight.com to which Gelman contributes.

     

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  • 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.

     

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

     

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  • 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.

     

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  • 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.

     

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  • 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.

     

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  • 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.

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Monday November 30

Kate Krimmel (Political Science)

Causes and Consequences of Social Movement Partisanship in the United States

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Wednesday December 2

David Shipley (New York Times)

Covering Conflict

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Thursday December 3

Michele Lamont (Harvard University)

How Professors Think

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Thursday December 3

Michele Lamont (Harvard University)

How Professors Think

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Thursday December 3

Thomas Espenshade (Princeton)

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Thursday December 3

Thomas Espenshade (Princeton)

Race, Class, and the Selective College Experience

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Thursday December 3

Bonnie Meguid (University of Rochester)

Party Competition Between Unequals: Strategies and Electoral Fortunes in Western Europe

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