Health
Article
Published March 16, 2017
Network Survival Method
Dennis Feehan, Assistant Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Demography, explains a pioneering approach to predicting adult mortality.
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Article
Published February 20, 2017
Racism and Heart Health
UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher Jordan B. Leitner investigates the connections between health disparities and levels of racial bias within communities.
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Published February 17, 2016
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton: “Peering Inside the Achievement Gap”
UC Berkeley social psychologist Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton researches the far-reaching effects that stereotypes and prejudice can have on minority student performance and considers new support systems to help address this challenge.
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Published September 24, 2015
Fall 2015 Matrix Seminars Underway
Covering topics ranging from climate change and race relations to polarization in Europe and the study of metaphor, a new series of interdisciplinary seminars are underway at Social Science Matrix.
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Article
Published July 1, 2015
Speech on the Brain
A UCSF neuroscientist and UC Berkeley linguist team up for leading-edge research that could one day help give speech back to stroke victims and people with paralyses.
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Article
Published May 7, 2015
Battling Ebola
A UC Berkeley professor has been part of a network of researchers working to apply local anthropological knowledge in the fight to contain the most deadly Ebola outbreak in history.
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Article
Published May 5, 2015
Center on the Politics of Development
A UC Berkeley research center advances mixed-methods research on development, envisions public policy solutions, and advocates for sustainable changes to the governance of developing communities.
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Article
Published December 20, 2014
Brain Exercise and Alzheimer’s
A postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley investigated whether a lifetime of cognitive exercise could mitigate the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Article
Published December 17, 2014
Africa’s AIDS Industry
Efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa tend to follow the same script, even though the methods are largely ineffective, according to a paper co-authored by a UC Berkeley sociologist.
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Article
Published November 10, 2014
Taming the Dust Devils
In an effort to control air pollution, the Chinese government is offering incentives to Mongolian pastoralists to shift their source of income, according to research by a UC Berkeley doctoral student.
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Published October 7, 2014
Behavior Measurement and Change
A Matrix seminar explored how mobile devices and other "sensors" are transforming how social scientists working in different disciplines can measure—and change—human behavior.
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Article
Published September 23, 2014
Population and Climate Change
A team of UC Berkeley researchers warn that unless action is taken, certain countries will likely face dire rates of starvation and disease.
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