Kollin Brown’s journey is one that comes full circle. Once a high school participant in the Cook Center’s Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute, Brown returns this summer—not as a student, but as a teacher’s assistant. It has been 7 years since Brown was an Aaron Young Scholar himself. Now, after…
Core Faculty Jorge Zumaeta, Senior Director of Continuing Education and Adjunct in the Department of International Business at Florida International University, recently published an article in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management. The study examined social preference parameters and financial decision-making among welfare recipients in Miami, Florida, comparing their behaviors to those of college…
Faculty Affiliate Kristen Cooksey Stowers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences at Duke University, was recently featured in UConn Today for her role in strengthening community-engaged health research. There can be unnecessary red tape that makes day-to-day work tough….
Faculty Affiliate Sarah Gaither, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Duke University’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, was recently featured in the Duke Psychiatry blog for her role as co-author of a new study on peer support programs in higher education. The study, published in the Journal of American College Health, provides the most comprehensive look to…
Faculty Affiliate Sarah Gaither, Associate Professor in Duke University’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, recently co-authored a new article in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. The study examined how group identity and wealth status shape social preferences among children in Hong Kong. Researchers compared responses from 115 Chinese children and 84 ethnic minority South…
Q+A: Adam Hollowell and Keisha Bentley-Edwards Dr. Adam Hollowell serves as Senior Research Associate at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and Director of the Inequality Studies Minor at Duke University. He is also the Faculty Director of the Benjamin N. Duke Memorial Scholarship Program and Director of the Global Inequality Research Initiative. An…
Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. and Kirsten Mullen gave comments in conversation on the Marketplace Morning Report with host David Brancaccio and Marketplace’s Mitchell Hartman on the state of reparations after Tulsa’s mayor recently announced a $105 million reparations plan. Hartman has been reporting on the racial wealth gap through the lens of Tulsa,…
Faculty Affiliate Loneke Blackman Carr, Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut, published a pilot study in Eating Behaviors evaluating a 12-week online intervention called SATISFY, designed to prevent weight gain by addressing emotional eating. In collaboration with Dr. Rachel Goode (UNC-Chapel Hill), the program combined appetite awareness training with lifestyle strategies…
Faculty Affiliate Lisa Gennetian, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Director of Graduate Studies in the Sanford PhD Program, and economist, is cited in a recent article examining how new tariffs on Chinese imports are raising the cost of essential baby gear. As prices for necessities like car seats and bassinets rise by…
Founding Director William Darity Jr. is among the many contributors to The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences double issue “Black Reparations: Insights from the Social Sciences”. The issue brings together current social science research and policy options regarding reparations for Black Americans. Darity was both featured in this conversation and was one…