Olin students create blueprint to measure neighborhood vibrancy
There’s a lot of interest in revitalizing neighborhoods, but community leaders and investors need localized data and measurable benchmarks to know if their investments will generate the intended results. Olin Business School graduate students at Washington University in St. Louis created a tool that could help.
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‘Study saying monthly cash won’t help children’s health is highly misleading — even irresponsible’
WashU early childhood researchers Joan Luby, MD, and Deanna Barch, PhD, write an opinion piece challenging the conclusions of a study, called Baby’s First Years, that found monthly cash payments to impoverished families didn’t notably improve children’s lives. They took umbrage with the findings and resulting media coverage.
Scholar discusses refugee research
Mitra Naseh, who directs the Forced Migration Initiative at the Brown School, takes part in a podcast episode recapping the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration conference in Indonesia. She and doctoral student Jihye Lee discussed their research on resettled refugees in the U.S.
In the age of post-growth, a MoMA exhibition chronicles the lived realities of the Nakagin Capsule Tower
While I maintain that 1970s Japanese masculinity that shaped the Nakagin Capsule Tower—which excluded women and family and denied of domesticity—is obsolete, the exhibition left me optimistic that alternate lives in the capsules are possible, writes Aki Ishida.
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Researcher for a day
WashU engineer Marcus Foston regularly hosts middle school students to learn about cutting-edge science. It’s part of WashU’s immersive “Researcher for a Day” program.
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The United States of no states?
What would America look like if there were no state governments? Stephen H. Legomsky, the John S. Lehmann University Professor Emeritus at WashU Law, tackles that question in his new book, “Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government,” published by Cambridge University Press.