Weidenbaum Center Research Fellow Tim McBride comments on the $50 billion investment for rural health transformation in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The Summer Institute in AI Methods for Social Scientists (AIMS) brings together scholars from across the social sciences for an intensive week of learning, practice, and collaboration in the ways to make use of AI methods in social science research.
Weidenbaum Center speaker Ray Boshara provides expert perspective in Business Insider on the potential long-term benefits of child savings accounts.
The Weidenbaum Center has awarded $45,000 for the upcoming academic year to support three exceptional PhD students in Political Science, Economics, and Sociology through the 2026-2027 Weidenbaum Graduate Fellowship.
Kastor says colonial settlers exhibited distinct motives, priorities and grievances, yet somehow arrived at similar conclusions.
Chancellor Martin says "Judicial independence protects free speech. Courts insulated from political pressure are more likely to enforce speech protections, even when the speech is wildly unpopular."
By combining data on food insecurity with information on pantry locations, the map helps identify communities where need and access may be mismatched.
The award, granted from the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section, is given every 2-3 years for "an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the EPOVB field."
Ishizuka says the question is not just how individual parents can do better, but how workplaces, communities, schools and policies can make good parenting more possible.
John Inazu presented “The Right of Assembly in our Democratic Experiment” as part of the spring 2026 WashU course “1776, Then and Now.”
The award is granted by the American Political Science Association and presented to top scholars in the field who are within ten years of their PhD.
McBride says that recipients don’t always receive the form if they don’t have a physical address or if the address on file is incorrect. And it’s not always clear to enrollees who receive the form what the department needs from them.