Stories help us piece together the past and create a collective narrative. Lori Peek, Director of the Natural Hazards Center, says “In the hazards and disaster field, we have been turning to a new story for a good while. The notion that natural hazards losses are inextricably linked to racism, poverty, pollution, and other slow-motion disasters
Lori Peek and other social scientists are finding the coronavirus pandemic to be an important lens through which to study society. Recently, Peek was interviewed by Inside Higher Ed in an article titled "Social Scientists on COVID-19." “It’s during moments of crisis when oftentimes we can learn most about the social order,” Peek said. Peek
A study published on June 8, 2020 in the Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics has shown that early childhood intervention programs can create positive long-lasting effects for participants and their offspring. This study was a decades-long project led by Karl Hill, who is the director of the Problem Behavior and Positive Youth Development Program (PBPYD) at
Stefan Leyk, an associate professor of Geography at CU Boulder and IBS Fellow, and his colleagues at IBS, Earth Lab and ASU have found a way to understand how and why the United States formed the way it did with the help of Zillow, the real estate website. Leyk, along with many other IBS researchers, published
Jason Boardman, Director of the Health and Society Program at IBS received the Clifford C. Clogg Award for Mid-Career Achievement through the Population Association of America (PAA). Established in 1995, this biennial award originally honored innovative contributions to the design, collection, modeling, or analysis of population survey or census data. Beginning with the 2000 award,
A little over a month ago, CONVERGE and the Social Science Extreme Events Research Network (SSEER), both part of the Natural Hazards Center that is funded by the National Science Foundation, partnered with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to create the COVID-19 Global Research Registry for Public Health and Social Sciences. The effort seeks to
As noted in the CNN article “Forget ‘social distancing,’” the WHO and other health experts would prefer that the term “physical distancing” would be used to describe what we have all been doing, staying home, avoiding large gatherings, six feet distance, etc. The intent is that a move away from the term “social distancing” would
IBS Graduate Student Caitlin McShane (GEOG, advisor Stefan Leyk) was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and another IBS Graduate Student, Erica Jackson (SOCY, David Pyrooz), received an Honorable Mention. A total of 26 CU students were awarded the fellowship. These awards come with a generous 3-year annual stipend plus monies to the institution to cover tuition and fees.
CUPC Affiliate Matt McQueen was interviewed for the Daily Camera article about Boulder County’s low fatality rate from COVID-19, especially compared to neighboring counties. McQueen, who is an epidemiologist and associate professor of Integrative Physiology at UCB attributes the difference to the younger population in Boulder County. There have been fewer “infection clusters,” there are
David Pryooz (IBS, SOCY) and his research colleague Scott Decker (ASU) published an article available via The Conversation on their research with gang members behind bars. Read the full article here. The article has been picked up by over a dozen news sources and counting, from YahooNews to SFGate. Prisoners today will eventually become the neighbors, religious
