Press Releases
ISERP's press releases are made available through our public affairs division and are released to Columbia University’s Office of Public Affairs and other media outlets. A complete chronology of these press releases is available below.
29. April 2008
The Columbia University community mourns the loss of one of its beloved members, Charles Tilly, the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, who passed away on April 29 after a long battle with cancer. He was 78.
Tilly, who had a joint appointment with the University's Departments of Sociology and Political Science, is widely considered the leading scholar of his generation on contentious politics and its relationship with military, economic, urban and demographic social change.
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29. January 2008
An opinion survey on "Racial Attitudes and the Presidential Nomination," conducted by Fredrick Harris, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and director of the Center on African American Politics and Society, has determined that African-American votes are up for grabs for both leading candidates of the Democratic Party and the skin color of the candidate will not automatically translate in African-American votes.
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1. January 2008
The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University today announced the launch of the Center on African-American Politics and Society which will conduct research on the political, social and economic conditions affecting blacks in the United States.
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18. September 2007
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that Columbia University sociologist Peter Bearman will receive the prestigious NIH DirectorÂ's Pioneer Award, a $2.5 million award that will support BearmanÂ's study of the social determinants of autism.
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13. September 2007
The Ford Foundation recently awarded a grant to Columbia UniversityÂ's Quantitative Methods and Social Sciences (QMSS) MasterÂ's degree program for an initiative to strengthen the methodological and policy-related training of doctoral students in the field of higher education.
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12. July 2007
The Columbia University School of Social WorkÂ's (CUSSW) Social Intervention Group and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) announced the launch of the Columbia University Global Health Research Center in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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18. May 2007
Ten of New York CityÂ's pioneering civic leaders will take a year-long break starting this summer to participate in a Columbia University fellowship that aims to enhance their understanding of the challenges facing the city and their ability to address them. Reflecting the diversity and dynamism of the city, recipients of the Charles H. Revson Fellowship are drawn from a range of sectors—from non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, community-based organizations, firehouses, courthouses, museums, newsrooms, classrooms, cathedrals, and mosques.
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1. June 2006
Who benefits from the health care system in the United States? Studies have long pointed to disparities in access to care along racial and class lines. But, according to a new study by Columbia researchers, sexual orientation may play an equally critical role.
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10. May 2006
Nearly a hundred current and former Revson Fellows gathered for the 26th Annual Alumni Dinner on May 2, 2006, at COLORS restaurant in downtown Manhattan. Fellowship Director Sudhir Venkatesh announced the integration of the Charles H. Revson Fellowship into ISERP and introduced the incoming cohort of Fellows. The dinner featured a discussion with actor Danny Glover, Mable Haddock (CEO and President, National Black Programming Consortium), and Venkatesh on "Politics, Activism, and Art."
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21. March 2006
Students from Columbia UniversityÂ's Masters in Climate and Society program visited the High School for Environmental Studies (HSES) to discuss perceptions of global warming in the film Â"The Day After Tomorrow.Â"
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6. February 2006
Forecasting which songs will be popular is like hitting the jackpot for music producers. But a new study by Columbia University researchers finds that it is virtually impossible to predict which ones will be successful.
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2. January 2006
A new study by Columbia University researchers Gueorgi Kossinets and Duncan Watts provides insight into how networks are formed during college and how they change and evolve over time.
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16. November 2005
A new study examining the link between body size and the urban built environment in New York City received $1.6 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health.
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11. October 2005
Fifty years ago, Elihu Katz and Paul F. Lazarsfeld published the seminal work Personal Influence: The part played by people in the flow of mass communications at Columbia's Bureau for Applied Social Research.
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23. May 2005
The Urban Research Workshop (URW) tackles problems of urban sustainability through a year-long comparative study of the development challenges of two major international cities. In 2004-2005, students studied urban sustainability in New York City and Mexico City.
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16. May 2005
In February 2002, families living in a high-rise in the Robert Taylor Homes public housing development in Chicago were given a 180-day notice of eviction. In six months, the community that had been their home for generations would be demolished.
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12. May 2005
Gentrification has emerged as the most controversial type of neighborhood change in America today. In a new study, Lance Freeman (Urban Planning) challenges the commonly held perception that gentrification displaces poor residents.
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3. May 2005
A new center to investigate individual and group decision making under climate uncertainty and environmental risk has been created with a five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $5.9 million.
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17. March 2005
In a study released March 18, 2005 in the Journal of Adolescent Health, Hannah Brückner and Peter Bearman report new results that show that young adults who took virginity pledges as adolescents are as likely to be infected with STDs as those who did not take virginity pledges.
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8. March 2005
On March 3rd, researchers from Columbia University joined city officials, architects, urban planners, building managers, and others from the local community for the "Green Roofs, Cool City" Conference at The New York Botanical Garden in the South Bronx.
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