Research

Anthropology Professor Laurence Ralph Examines Police Violence

“Nobody should be tortured, no matter what they’ve done”

Religion Professor Andrew Chignell on the Ethics of Belief

Essay: The Sounds of Solace

Q&A: Laura Kahn *02 on COVID’s Spread and How We Defeat It

COVID-19 started in an animal host; new policy could help prevent the next outbreak

Stacy Wolf: All the World’s a Stage

A cross-country examination reveals how Broadway permeates American culture

Civic and Environmental Engineering: The Winds of Change

Untold Stories of Latino History

Behind the Research: Rosina Lozano, history

System Failure: Economists Who Uncovered American ‘Deaths of Despair’ Explain the Causes

Faculty Book: Anne Case *88 and Angus Deaton

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The Lifelong Impacts of Childhood Trauma

Behind the Research: Catherine Jensen Peña, neuroscience

Faculty Book: Peter Singer on Our Moral Obligations to the Impoverished

Sociology: You Are Who You Know

Who we become and why is more complicated than nature versus nurture

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Understanding the Dynamics of Urban Life

Behind the Research: Patrick Sharkey, sociology

Psychology and Public Affairs: Dress Codes

Imagining the Changing Shape of Architecture

Behind the Research: V. Mitch McEwen, architecture

Creative Writing: Apocalyptic Opera

A novelist brings her darkly humorous sensibility to an opera’s libretto

Examining How We Teach and Learn Languages

Behind the Research: Alberto Bruzos Moro, Spanish and Portuguese

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Environmental Engineering: Here Comes the Flood

A study predicts a future full of catastrophic flooding in the United States

Crunching the Numbers Behind Nature’s Wonders

Behind the Research: Corina Tarnita, ecology and evolutionary biology

You, Uploaded: Michael Graziano ’89 *96 on Rethinking Consciousness

Academic Anxiety

Chinese scholars express uneasiness about the growing trend of federal scrutiny

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