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Aaron Coleman, PhD candidate in comparative literature in Arts & Sciences and Chancellor’s Fellow, spoke with NPR’s “All Things Considered” about the challenges of translating poetry from one language to another. The program was celebrating National Poetry Month.

Kathleen Clark, professor of law

Jason Purnell, associate professor of public health

Sociologist Caitlyn Collins, of Arts & Sciences, writes an article in Slate about American tourists’ reaction to seeing Swedish fathers caring for their children. She explains her yearslong project comparing the lives of working mothers in Sweden, the U.S. and other countries, all of which have vastly different work-family policies.

Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield, of Arts & Sciences, writes about her research on the complicated position that black professional men often find themselves in, being part of both the majority and the minority in the workplace, in a Harvard Business Review article.

Eric Leuthardt, MD, professor of neurological surgery

R. Marie Griffith, the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities

Income inequality expert Mark Rank, of the Brown School, wrote in an op-ed published in The New York Times about his research on the cost to the nation’s economy of childhood poverty. “The bottom line is that reducing poverty is justified not only from a social justice perspective, but from a cost-benefit perspective as well,” […]

Ignacio Sánchez Prado, professor of Spanish, Latin American studies, and film and media studies