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Community Data & Evaluation Skill-Building Series

Prove & Improve: Community Data & Evaluation Skill-Building Series June 2- June 6, 2025 Register Attendees are welcome to select individual sessions to attend, or …

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Storytelling to make inequality in the American South less sustainable

The Social Science Research Institute and the Program on the American South are seeking contributions for a project that invites storytelling in any form whose ...
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Stereotypes

Adam Stanaland (PhD Candidate) researches how powerful norms and stereotypes shape people’s identities and self-concepts

Adam Stanaland PhD Candidate, Joint Psychology & Public Policy Adam Stanaland Can you tell me a little about your background? Sure! I was born and ...
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Social Justice

PhD candidate Jared Clemons talks about studying the politics of social justice

Jared is studying the politics of social justice. His dissertation, “Paying the Price? How Racial Capitalism and Self-Interest Condition White Liberal Commitments to Racial Justice” ...
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Liann Tucker uses network analysis to study adolescent mental health and health-risk behaviors

Liann Tucker PHD candidate, Department of SociologyUsing network analysis to study adolescent mental health and health-risk behaviors  About Liann I’m from the San Fernando Valley ...
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How are families raising healthy children in post-nuclear Japan?

When a disaster happens it quickly makes the news but just as quickly can disappear from mainstream media. When Fukushima happened in 2011 the world ...
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Duke MIDS looking to support post-doctoral research associate

Job Description: The Duke Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science (MIDS) program within the Social Science Research Institute is looking to support an existing post-doctoral research ...
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Asymptomatic Testing at Nursing Homes Will Be Key in Preventing Coronavirus Spread

Nursing homes are hotspots for spreading the coronavirus. Long-term residents can more easily stay isolated from family and friends, but workers and short-term patients travel ...
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WRAL Special Coverage with Don Taylor: Coronavirus

WRAL: The data trackers show that the cases of long-term facilities make up 18% of all laboratory confirmed cases at more than half of the total ...
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Opinion Piece: To test our way out of the COVID-19 nightmare, focus on nursing homes

Less than 1% of Americans live in nursing homes, yet these facilities account for between 15% and 25% of Covid-19 cases and half of all deaths from ...
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