The Justice Lab at Columbia University is led by Bruce Western and Vincent Schiraldi. The team engages with scholars, policymakers, directly-impacted individuals, and students in projects related to community corrections, emerging adult justice, juvenile justice, reentry, mass incarceration, and solitary confinement.
Columbia University Office of the Executive Vice President for Research announced the names of six teams receiving funding through Research Initiatives in Science and Engineering (RISE), one of the largest internal research grant competitions within the University. The annual award provides funds for up to six interdisciplinary faculty teams from the basic sciences, engineering, and/or medicine to pursue blossoming and extremely creative research projects. Each team’s award is worth $80,000 per year for up to two years.
We are proud to announce that Prof. W. Bentley MacLeod, Prof. Miguel Urquiola and PhD alum Evan Riehl's research, The Big Sort, which examines implications of college choice on career and earnings, came in as the 3rd most viewed page of the American Economics Association's list of the 2017's research highlights.