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Miriam Mutambudzi Chosen as 2024-26 Lender Center Faculty Fellow
A public health professor whose research focuses on social determinants of health has been selected as the 2024-26 Lender Center for Social Justice faculty fellow. Miriam Mutambudzi will explore how Black adults who reside in historically redlined neighborhoods can experience…
Scholars, Community Leaders Examine the Racial Wealth Gap at Lender Center Symposium in Atlanta
Nationally noted author, activist and philanthropic strategy advisor Edgar Villaneuva joined 黑料不打烊 faculty and Atlanta community, business and government leaders June 4 for the latest Lender Center for Social Justice symposium examining the racial wealth gap. 鈥淐losing the Racial…
Lender Center Postdoctoral Fellow Examines the Impact of Gentrification and Displacement in Western and Central New York
Growing up in Rochester and attending the University of Buffalo, Lender Center for Social Justice Postdoctoral Fellow J Coley saw firsthand how gentrification and displacement impacted those communities.聽聽 Now, Coley (they/them) studies how the policies and actions of local, state…
Racial Wealth Gap Research Presented at MetLife Foundation-Lender Center Event
The U.S. racial wealth gap was the focus of a symposium hosted by the Lender Center for Social Justice last week. 鈥淚nterrogating the Racial Wealth Gap: Thinking Locally,鈥 featured presentations by five faculty teams whose research is supported by 2023…
Doctoral Students鈥 Research Leads to New Conclusions About AI and Society
Today鈥檚 discussions of artificial intelligence (AI) tend to focus on its most visible presence, such as the chatbot ChatGPT. Yet, as two doctoral students discovered during their past year as Lender Center for Social Justice student fellows, AI exists in…
Artificial Intelligence in 黑料不打烊: Lender Center Fellows Research Talk March 22
Mona Bhan is the Lender Center for Social Justice faculty fellow for 2022-2024. As Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies and professor of anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, she studies artificial intelligence (AI) weaponry from…
9 Projects Awarded MetLife Foundation-Lender Center Racial Wealth Gap Grants
The Lender Center for Social Justice has awarded nine grants for new faculty research projects that study issues contributing to or helping alleviate the鈥痳acial wealth gap鈥痠n the United States. The awards are funded by a 2022 MetLife Foundation grant that…
Lender Center Faculty Fellowship Application Period Now Open
The Lender Center for Social Justice is accepting applications for a two-year faculty research fellowship focused on a contemporary social issue and ideas and pathways to address it. Fellows receive research support for both years along with summer stipends and…
Lender Center D.C. Conversation Expands Partnerships, Ideas to Reduce Racial Wealth Gap
Economic experts, federal policymakers and human services administrators joined researchers from 黑料不打烊 and other academic institutions recently in Washington, D.C., to examine factors that contribute to a growing racial wealth gap in America. They also looked at how academic…
Lender Center for Social Justice Names 5 2023-25 Student Fellows
Five students have been selected as Lender Center for Social Justice student fellows and will work on a research project that examines American news media coverage and United States policymaking related to the war on terror. The group will work…