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Faculty Affiliate Sarah Gaither Co-Authors Book Chapter

Faculty Affiliate Sarah E. Gaither, Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, recently co-authored a book chapter in Untangling the Thread of Racism: A Primer for Pediatric Health Professionals (AAP Books). Dr. Gaither’s chapter, entitled “Considering Multiracial Youth: Identity Challenges and Health Outcomes,” discusses the effects of monoracial practices […]

Faculty Affiliate Loneke Blackman Carr Co-Authors Publication

Faculty Affiliate Loneke Blackman Carr, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut, recently co-authored a paper on how web-based communities can help Black women reach their target goals for physical activity. Describing the background and objective of this study, Carr and colleagues (2023) write: About 59%-73% of Black women […]

Jumping Off the Page

When most people think of research, they often imagine scientists running around a lab filled with high-tech equipment, their white lab coats flapping behind them. But most scholarship happens behind a computer, as researchers analyze data, compose journal articles, connect with colleagues, apply for funding — and occasionally work on a book project. 
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Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean’s New York Times Bestseller Book Reissued

Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, recently saw her award-winning book Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America reissued by Penguin Random House. A previous New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the latest […]

Achieving equity in public education together

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the “Final Word” by Deanna Townsend-Smith from the Nov. 11, 2023 broadcast of Education Matters: “Mapping the Movement and Color of Education 2023.” Townsand-Smith is Senior Director of the Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity and Opportunity at the Public School Forum of North Carolina. Together we can achieve so much more. […]

Postdoctoral Associate Pak Hung Lam Co-Authors Publication

Postdoctoral associate Pak Hung Lam recently co-authored a paper in JAMA Open Network, “Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Academic Performance Among Children in North Carolina.” Dr. Lam’s research, which analyzed a robust dataset of more than 2.8 million students in North Carolina from 2001-2018, highlights the negative effects of such environmental exposure on children’s academic […]

Cook Center receives 2-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Cook Center recently received a two-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support the Center’s research into how Black reparations will affect the wellbeing of children. The new project, in addition to comprehensively analyzing the causes of modern-day inequities that Black families with children face, will evaluate the effects of local reparations initiatives in […]

Why Black Americans might get reparations via local communities

For most Black Americans, the very concept of reparations or financial compensation repaid for enslavement feels like a Sisyphean exercise. But, surprisingly, the national reparations movement is making some headway — through local governments and commissions. Currently, reparations proposals have been implemented or are under review in every region of the country. In Evanston, Illinois, […]

Economics Undergraduates – Apply Now to the 2024 AEA Summer Training Program

The application portal for the 2024 AEA Summer Program is now open. The AEA Summer Program (AEASP) is a prestigious two-month residential program that uniquely enables undergraduate students to prepare for the rigors of graduate studies—particularly at the PhD level—through two months of intensive training in microeconomics, math, econometrics and research methods with leading faculty. The […]

‘An investment not a debt’: Why reparations for slavery is back in the mainstream and gaining momentum

The current U.S. reparations movement appears to be getting some legs. Recently, New York City Mayor Eric Adams expressed support for legislation that would offer Black New Yorkers repayment related to American slavery. In June, California Gov. Gavin Newsom received the final report and recommendations from the state’s Reparations Task Force, for his review. In August the City of […]