Matrix On Point
Recap
Published April 30, 2023
Matrix on Point: Border Crossing
For this Matrix on Point panel, we asked UC Berkeley PhD candidates — Pauline White Meeusen, Gisselle Perez-Leon, and Adriana P. Ramirez — to share their ongoing research on borders and migration. Moderated by Irene Bloemraad, Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI), which co-sponsored the event.
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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 November 7, 2014
UC Berkeley Research Network Graph
Social Science Matrix is building an interactive data visualization tool to highlight collaborations among UC faculty and students.
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Article
Published October 16, 2014
The Dragon of Debt
An oral history project about the national debt features interviews with top U.S. policy-makers from the past five decades.
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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 October 6, 2014
Credit and Class
Economic classification tools such as credit scores directly contribute to stratification and class division, according to Berkeley sociologist Marion Fourcade.
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Article
Published October 2, 2014
From Plantation to Corporation
A UC Berkeley historian explores how commonly used modern-day business practices evolved from methods used in the operation of brutal slave plantations.
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