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Shin says employees often need time set aside by their bosses to experiment with tools or formalized AI training.

Winners of the award demonstrate advanced pedagogical skills, develop innovative materials and lessons, and/or refine feedback mechanisms that have significant impacts on student learning and engagement.

Video of Alejandro Orrego Agudelo’s arrest put him at the center of a debate over ICE staking out Massachusetts courthouses.

Sending heartfelt well wishes to our Weidenbaum Center–affiliated faculty members Steve Fazzari (Resident Fellow and former Director), Costas Azariadis (Grant Recipient), James Gibson (Grant Recipient), and Ping Wang (Grant Recipient) as they embark on their upcoming retirement. Your dedication, insight, and impact have shaped countless students, colleagues, and conversations. Wishing you all the best in this exciting new chapter!

Professor Chiarello is a medical sociologist and socio-legal scholar whose work explores how cultural forces such as law, politics, and organizational policy shape decision-making in healthcare and the criminal-legal system. Chiarello gave a talk in January 2025 for the Center on her book, "Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis."

Magarian, a former clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens, cautioned reading too much into the justices’ correspondence, noting that there’s different internal norms for memos compared to a dissent meant to go public.

Mcbride says if you're going to say there's a work requirement, then there has to be jobs available, or community engagement volunteer activities.

Senator Gramm argued that AI would be a force for economic good and drew parallels to the Industrial Revolution. The talk was cosponsored by Washington University's Olin Business School.

Professor Lucia Motolinia examines why electoral reforms often fail in young democracies and how legislators serve their constituents when parties control the necessary resources.

Rosenfeld says the potential strike would really come down to pay as the teachers are earning much less than otherwise similar workers in the high-cost state.

New article in the Journal of Experimental Political Science finds that for rural Americans, place-based identity is deeply influential in shaping their political perceptions.

Professor Michael Olson explores disfranchisement's effects, making a major contribution to our understanding of the relationship between racial discrimination at the ballot box and public policymaking.