Jillian Turanovic, associate professor of sociology at CU Boulder and IBS faculty and fellow, recently wrote about the impact of Proposition KK for the Daily Camera. Ahead of the 2024 elections in Colorado, Jillian emphasized the need for tax dollars to be allocated to organizations that assist crime victims. Funding is critically low for these
Disinformation. It threatens public health systems during natural disasters, pandemics and other crises. It can be weaponized for war, as Russia has done with Ukraine. It brings new waves of conspiracy theories and gives fuel to anti-science movements. And perhaps most acutely, it undermines the very fabric of democracy. Visiting IBS Scholar, Kacper Gradon, knows
The Wildfire Research (WiRē) Team will receive the Pathfinding Partnerships Award through the 2024 Governor’s Awards for High Impact Research on November 20. Institute of Behavioral Science Fellow and Associate Research Professor, Hannah Brenkert Smith, is a member of the team. Learn more about this prestigious award win and the WiRē Team’s impact on the community:
The Prevention Science Program out of the Institute of Behavioral Science at CU Boulder, along with the university’s Police Department, were awarded a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice last month. The grant will expand their efforts to prevent hate crimes across the CU system. “I am thrilled to continue to partner
Sharon Dewitte, IBS faculty, fellow, and associate professor of anthropology at CU Boulder, was recently featured on a news segment for Mendocino County. DeWitte discussed her research on medieval plague, a history of the Black Plague, and what health outcomes can acquire from bones. Hear her interview with It’s a New Day host, Julie Beardsley,
Research Associate at the Natural Hazards Center, Carson MacPherson-Krutsky, contributed a recent article to the Conversation. She wrote about her research into natural hazards and human behavior: why some people choose to stay behind during natural disasters, and what we can do to make evacuation communications more effective and accessible.
Assistant Professor of Information Science and IBS Affiliate, Brian C. Keegan, was consulted for a recent College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI) Now Magazine article. The story summarizes the state of voting, polling and democracy in the United States in advance of the 2024 elections. Keegan shares his take on AI and its effect
Florida has ordered over a million people to evacuate in advance of Hurricane Milton. But not everyone is motivated to leave. IBS Research Associate, Carson MacPherson-Krutsky, studies why some people choose to stay behind during natural disasters. She emphasizes that evacuation is a privilege not everyone is able to take. CU Boulder Today’s Yvaine Ye
The Power of One mobile app, inspired by the Safe2Tell program, aims to address further youth safety concerns. From housing security to food access, the app is coined as being created “by us, for us” and involved the Youth Advisory Council from the Youth Violence Prevention Center-Denver (YVPC-Denver), an outgrowth of the Center for the Study and
Can horseback riding impact your skeleton? A new study sheds light on when humans first took to horseback riding, and what we can and can’t discern from skeletal remains. The study, published in Science Advances, was co-authored by Associate Professor of Anthropology, IBS Affiliate and Curator of Archaeology at the CU Museum of Natural History,
