The Record

COVID-19 course explores virus’s impact on society

More than 1,200 students enrolled in “The Pandemic: Science and Society,” an online two-credit course featuring experts from across disciplines and across the country. The entire university may benefit from the lessons learned.

Food insecurity and schools during the pandemic

As schools across the country begin to welcome students back in person or for virtual learning, equity must be at the forefront of decisions pertaining to school emergency food services, finds a new study from the Brown School.

Study provides insight on building a better flu vaccine

Researchers led by the School of Medicine have developed an approach to assess whether a vaccine activates the kind of immune cells needed for long-lasting immunity against new influenza strains.

‘Uncontrollable Blackness’

In his book, “Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York,” historian Douglas Flowe in Arts & Sciences investigates the meanings of crime, violence and masculinity in the lives of those facing economic isolation, segregation and overt racial attack.

How regulations meant to increase poor, minority lending ultimately backfire

New Olin Business School research has exposed a significant increase in poor customer service, fraud and mis-selling by retail banks in low- to moderate-income areas targeted by the Community Reinvestment Act, especially those with a high minority population.

Genetic mutations may be linked to infertility

School of Medicine scientists have identified a gene that plays an important role in fertility across multiple species. The findings could have implications for understanding human infertility and early menopause.