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.

Congrats to Weidenbaum Center Speaker and Associate Professor of Sociology Liz Chiarello for being selected as a 2026–27 Member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Liz will be in residence at Princeton for the upcoming academic year.

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."

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.

ICUR is open to undergraduate researchers from all disciplines

The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program supports original research projects in the humanities and social sciences.

Collins says these deeply ingrained social norms mean we tend to valorize masculinity and devalue femininity.

Awards are given for research that focuses on social science and/or public policy. These awards support collaborative research efforts, projects with a high likelihood of prominent publication, and research that leads to external grant applications.

Time was Boeing’s strongest weapon in months-long labor dispute with St. Louis machinists

Rosenfeld says that the elected officials who have signed letters asking Boeing to end the strike have been on the workers' side throughout, but this political pressure has not yet had an impact on the status of the strike and is not a dynamic he has seen in the past.

First-years can apply through Nov. 5 at noon