Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected]) ANN ARBOR — A valuable member of the Institute for Social Research community has passed away. Barbara Opal, who worked for the University of Michigan for 50 years, died on Thursday, January 19, 2023. She was 68. Opal spent nearly all of her career in ISR’s Center for Political Studies (CPS),… Continue reading Institute for Social Research remembers Barbara Opal, a long-time member of the ISR community
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After announcing its first population decline in six decades, what is next for China?
Contact: Fernanda Pires, [email protected] ANN ARBOR—For decades, China’s large population was seen as a burden. Is the latest announcement of demographic decline negative? Is the structure of its population, with imbalances of both age and gender, the real problem? University of Michigan professor Mary Gallagher, an expert in Chinese politics, law and society, and labor… Continue reading After announcing its first population decline in six decades, what is next for China?
Gun control measures associated with reduced police use of force
Contact: Jared Wadley As police departments and activists look for strategies to reduce excessive use of force by police, new research from the University of Michigan shows limited data, lack of transparency and irregular implementation of reforms make it difficult to determine which approaches are effective. The Black Lives Matter movement, which gained worldwide attention… Continue reading Gun control measures associated with reduced police use of force
ISR affiliate Deborah Loewenberg Ball appointed to National Science Board
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected]) ANN ARBOR — President Biden has announced his intention to support Deborah Loewenberg Ball to the National Science Board. Ball is the William H. Payne Collegiate Professor of Education at the University of Michigan School of Education, an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, and a research professor affiliated with the Survey Research… Continue reading ISR affiliate Deborah Loewenberg Ball appointed to National Science Board
New book focuses on the challenges of infertility in one of the world’s most populous countries
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected]) ANN ARBOR — What is it like to struggle with infertility in a country with more than a billion people? Holly Donahue Singh attempts to explain the answer to that and other questions related to motherhood, family, and identity in her new book Infertility in a Crowded Country: Hiding Reproduction in… Continue reading New book focuses on the challenges of infertility in one of the world’s most populous countries
ISR honors Rosemary Sarri with research symposium
ANN ARBOR — The Institute for Social Research honored the memory of trailblazing researcher Rosemary Sarri with a research symposium on Friday, December 2, 2022. Past students and colleagues presented work in Sarri’s memory, sharing insights and discoveries achieved during and after her long career in the social sciences. The speakers were Sara Goodkind, Brittani… Continue reading ISR honors Rosemary Sarri with research symposium
Grant to fund a return to research on child trauma and maltreatment
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected]) ANN ARBOR – A rarely bestowed grant will allow a University of Michigan researcher to complete work she had to put on hold due to a cancer diagnosis. Suzanne Perkins, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and an affiliated faculty member… Continue reading Grant to fund a return to research on child trauma and maltreatment
Survey looks at faculty, staff, student sustainability behaviors
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected]) ANN ARBOR — Students, faculty and staff at the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus are doing more to alter their behaviors in environmentally positive ways, but more work needs to be done to expand pro-environmental behaviors, awareness levels and engagement. Those are the suggestions found in the most recent survey… Continue reading Survey looks at faculty, staff, student sustainability behaviors
Mara Ostfeld explains how skin color is more than skin deep in ISR Insights talk
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected]) ANN ARBOR — The Institute for Social Research’s Insights Speaker Series returned on Thursday, October 6 with a look at the impact of skin color in the United States. Mara Ostfeld, a faculty associate at ISR’s Center for Political Studies, spoke on the different ways that a person’s skin color affects… Continue reading Mara Ostfeld explains how skin color is more than skin deep in ISR Insights talk
For Jasmine Manalel, work at ISR serves as a springboard for a career and a calling
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected]) ANN ARBOR – A career in research depends on the opportunity to do research, both on your own and with others. As a graduate student at the University of Michigan, Jasmine Manalel got the chance to do both at the Institute for Social Research (ISR). In the process, she set herself… Continue reading For Jasmine Manalel, work at ISR serves as a springboard for a career and a calling