Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies established
The Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies (ICQCM) has been established at Washington University in St. Louis, thanks to a $500,559 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to Odis Johnson, professor of sociology and of education, both in Arts & Sciences. The grant is designed to mitigate the disparities in the number of underrepresented scholars that utilize quantitative and computational research methods and techniques.
A difficult conversation
With her diagnosis, Cathy and I were forced to acknowledge that life is limited, which gave our lives and the lives around us so much more meaning. This is a legacy Cathy gave to me. No difficult conversation can ever replace this.
Making the Online World Less Addictive – and More Popular
Video game makers – and other online firms (Facebook, etc.) believed to pull an inordinate amount of people’s attention away from the real world – may soon be forced to either curb their own products’ addictive properties or face government intervention.
Lawyers with more experience obtain better outcomes
An experienced attorney, relative to a first-timer, increases the likelihood of winning a case by 14 percentage points and of capturing a justice’s vote by 11 percentage points.
Downtown St. Louis Is Rising; Black St. Louis Is Being Razed
Imagine if St. Louis and Detroit counted progress in some other way than number of vacant buildings demolished and number of downtown jobs added this year.
Why American cities remain segregated 50 years after the Fair Housing Act
Successfully overhauling the policies implicated in maintaining segregation will require a concerted effort by federal, state, and local governments, as well as national and local advocacy organizations.
School of Law opens First Amendment Clinic
The School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis has launched a new First Amendment Clinic, aimed at allowing students to gain experience by providing legal assistance to organizations, students, journalists and citizens.
Obituary: Merton Bernstein, emeritus professor of law, 96
Merton C. Bernstein, the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, died at his home in Brewster, Mass., on Aug. 3, 2019. He was 96.
Five years after Ferguson, let’s make sure frontline activists don’t become ‘living casualties’
Imagine how many more leaders, ideas, and solutions we will have access to from our local and national discourse when we make it possible for movement leaders to return to the classroom, grow their leadership, and incubate their best work.
Empress of the stage
Reminding her audience that she could put on and take off roles as she chose, Bessie Smith sidestepped an old type, making room for the new.
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