Headlines & Highlights
Working Paper by Dietrich School Economists Cited in Washington Post
A working paper on "promise scholarship" programs for public high school students, written by economists Michael LeGower and Randall Walsh and published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, was featured in the Washington Post's Wonkblog.
Study of Past Climate Change May Presage Future Drought
Sorting through oxygen isotopes in muddy sediment at the bottom of 10 Pacific Northwest lakes has led a research team--including Mark Abbott, professor and chair of the Department of Geology and Planetary Science--to conclude that droughts in that region match natural regional warming for various periods over the past 2,000 years.
Read Dietrich School Associate Dean's CNN Opinion Piece, "Why Do Racists and Anti-Semites Kill?"
Kathleen Blee is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at the Dietrich School. She has published extensively on why people join racist groups, including the book "Inside Organized Racism."
GSK Discovery Partnership Seminar, April 21
Dietrich School faculty members are invited to attend the GlaxoSmithKline Discovery Partnership with Academia Seminar. GSK is looking for academic partners that have a specific and testable hypothesis that would deliver therapeutic benefit to patients; work in any disease area using any treatment modality; or, have projects in early screening to late lead optimization.
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