Innovation in a “culture of planning”: HPV vaccines and translational research in the National Cancer Institute This talk explores the role scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a US federal science agency, played in researching and testing vaccines … Read more
Jonathan Horowitz, Phil Morgan, Kate Weisshaar; "Making the Most of Conferences"
Stressors and Strains of Diversity: A Case of Multichurch Racial Pastors
Coming of Age in the Other America Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, especially African Americans, still have difficulty entering the middle class, in part because of the disadvantages they experience living … Read more
To Lend or Not to Lend: Obfuscating Denials and Managing Negative Social Capital Sociologists have recognized that help seeking behaviors can impose excessive claims on some network members. Drawing on interviews with individuals in an innovative credit building program, this … Read more
Courtney Boen, Lisa Pearce, and Karolyn Tyson; "Making Your Writing More Effective, Efficient, and Enjoyable"
Racial Mobility: The Dynamics of Race and Inequality in the U.S. Professor Saperstein will make the case for a more dynamic understanding of the relationship between race and inequality by introducing a "racial mobility" perspective that brings together constructivist theories … Read more
Kristen Schorpp, "Socioeconomic Conditions and Health across the Lifespan: Trends and Underlying Mechanisms"
Daniel Auguste, "Varieties of Gendered-Capitalism: Institutional Environment and Gender Inequality in Entrepreneurship"
An Immigrant Paradox? Contextual Attainment and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
