Dr. Lori Peek, Director of IBS's Natural Hazards Center, and Dr. Courtney Welton-Mitchell, NHC Research Associate, were both interviewed for an article posted in the Daily Camera on March 19, 2020. The full article is here (behind a paywall). The article addressed anti-Asian discrimination, research opportunities, and the sociological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on everyone,
Kathleen Tierney, former Director of the Natural Hazards Center here at IBS, has recently been interviewed by multiple media sources about the COVID-19 situation. Listen to Kathleen Tierney on Colorado Public Radio (90.1 FM and https://www.cpr.org/) today (March 11) at 9am. Tierney also appeared on Al Jazeera TV station discussing COVID-19. You can also read The New Yorker column
On February 25, Myron Gutmann, Director of CU Boulder’s Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS), participated in meetings to help inform congressional efforts to reauthorize the National Science Foundation (NSF) this Congress. Gutmann met with the offices Senator Cory Gardner and Congressman Ed Perlmutter, who serve on the committees of jurisdiction, as well as a bipartisan group of
David Pyrooz, an associate professor of sociology at CU Boulder and a faculty associate at IBS, recently published a book that explores the inner workings of prison gangs. Pyrooz, along with his co-author, spent nine months interviewing inmates at two of the oldest prisons in Texas. In his book, Competing for Control: Gangs and the
Since 1990, birth weights in the United States have declined due to the rise in cesarean sections. Andrea Tilstra, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, and Ryan Masters, a social demographer in the Institute of Behavioral Sciences, worked together to research the cause of declining birth weights. Together, they analyzed over 23 million
IBS's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) was highlighted by the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine for their amazing work in securing an almost $1 million grant to evaluate the Colorado Threat Assessment and Management Protocol within Colorado schools. CSPV will be working with the Colorado School Safety Resource Center (CSSRC) to
Four CU Boulder faculty members, including Lori Peek, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Natural Hazards Center, were recently awarded the Mellon grant. This prestigious award grants the team $225,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation towards their environmental futures seminar. You can read more about their year-long program here. This is the first
Dr. Lori Peek, Director of the Natural Hazards Center here at IBS, was co-author on a piece published in Nature this week. The full article, titled "Disaster-zone research needs a code of conduct" is available here. Most countries do not provide ethical guidance for researchers, and universities have widely varying standards for the protection of study
CU Population Center (CUPC) at the University of Colorado Boulder is currently recruiting two postdoctoral fellows with expertise in population-environment research, to start August 2020. The initial term of appointment is one year, but reappointment for a second year is possible, subject to performance evaluation. CUPC, housed in the Institute of Behavioral Science, is a
With CU's record-setting $631 million in research funding, CU Boulder Today highlighted the work that Lori Peek has done with CONVERGE here within the Natural Hazards Center at IBS. Congrats! Read the whole article here.
