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Oregon company makes a point of hiring ex-convicts

December 25, 2015

Marketplace | Devah Pager, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, discusses her current research, which examines the job performance of those with criminal records in the military. Pager finds that "those with serious criminal pasts perform just as well if not better than their counterparts with no criminal records."



Why white people see black boys like Tamir Rice as older, bigger, and guiltier than they really are

December 28, 2015

Washington Post | Details findings of study by Phillip Atiba Goff, visiting scholar in the Malcolm Wiener Center. View the research, "The Essence of Innocence: the Consequences of Dehumanizing Black Children," published by the American Psychological Association. Goff presented this work in the Inequality Seminar in spring 2014.



Finalists for 2016 William T. Grant Scholars Program Awards

December 21, 2015

William T. Grant Foundation | Faculty member Matthew Desmond is one of ten finalists for the William T. Grant Foundation Scholars program, which supports early career researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Four to six Scholars will be selected in March 2016 for these five-year research awards.

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