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Iona Volynets Selected as 2023 Truman Scholar
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ junior Iona Volynets has been named as a 2023 recipient of the Truman Scholarship. Volynets, of Washington, D.C., is a history and international relations major in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and College of…
Lender Center for Social Justice Symposium, Supported by MetLife Foundation, Focuses on Racial Wealth Gap
What are the structural and systemic factors in American society that contribute to an ongoing and widening racial wealth gap? What steps can organizations take to identify those factors and intervene to minimize their impact on members of Black, Latinx,…
Lender Center Symposium Examines Complexity of Launching Neighborhood Women’s Wellness Program
The disparities between well-intentioned plans for a women-only wellness center on the City of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s North Side area and the challenges of providing wellness programming given neighborhood resources and conditions is the topic of the 2022-2023 Lender Center for Social…
School of Education Announces Annual Atrocity Studies Lecture on ‘Gathering Evidence of Atrocities’
The 2023 Atrocity Studies annual lecture—presented by the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ School of Education—will address how war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities are documented across the globe and the implications of this evidence for international courts and justice. The…
Applications Being Accepted for Lender Center for Social Justice Faculty Fellow
Applications are now being accepted for the position of 2023-25 Lender Center for Social Justice Faculty Fellow. The deadline for applications is Monday, April 10, at 5 p.m. ET. The Lender Center Faculty Fellowship supports a two-year research project that…
Lender Center Student Fellows Researching Social Justice Implications of Artificial Intelligence Weaponry
These days, it’s hard to go anywhere without encountering artificial intelligence (AI). Predictive text offers to finish our web searches and our text messages. AI learning-based software can produce everything from research papers to poetry, solving complex math equations to…
Grants Available for Scholarly Projects on Racial Wealth Gap
Grant funding is available to ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Ph.D. (or equivalent) scholars who have compelling projects that examine the issue of the racial wealth gap in the United States. The awards are part of a new social justice initiative and one…
Information Session Jan. 18 on MetLife Foundation-Lender Center Symposium Research Submissions
A virtual information session will be held Wednesday, Jan. 18, to offer information and a forum for questions for researchers wanting to submit proposals for presentations at the inaugural MetLife Foundation-Lender Center for Social Justice Symposium. The information session will…
Sociology Professor, Labor Expert Reacts to NYC Nurses Strike
More than 7,000 nurses of the New York State Nurses Association are on strike today at hospitals in the Bronx and in Harlem. The activity is expected to last throughout the day and into the evening, with a press conference…
Lender Center for Social Justice Granted $2.7M From MetLife Foundation for Research Initiatives to Help Address Racial Wealth Gap
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Lender Center for Social Justice has been awarded a $2.7 million grant from MetLife Foundation to launch several new research initiatives to accelerate efforts to address the racial wealth gap and help dismantle the root causes of wealth…