A program that helps New Yorkers save hundreds of energy dollars a year should be leveraged nationwide, says a founder of the Consumer Education Program for Residential Energy Efficiency.
Girls whose mothers were visited at home by nurses during pregnancy and the children's infancy are less likely to enter the criminal justice system before age 19, a long-term study shows.
Katie Broadbent '09 and Arthur Maas '09 are working with Andy Potash '66 to design a business with one goal in mind: creating jobs for workers often overlooked by employers.
Would a so-called Twinkie tax help curb obesity rates? Should shoppers who buy healthy goods earn rebates? A new study will seek to unravel the likely implications of legislative attempts to promote healthy eating. (Dec. 17, 2009)
Four grants awarded from the Summer 2009 Seed Grant Competition are intended to promote research on foreign policy and international development as well as international studies in general. (Dec. 16, 2009)
Jared Genser '95 founded Freedom Now to release prisoners of conscience around the world and has won the freedom of five prisoners from China, Vietnam, Burma, Pakistan and Egypt. (Dec. 8, 2009)
Professors William White and Kosali Simon contrasted elements of two health care bills that propose to expand health coverage using a combination of incentives and penalties. (Dec. 8, 2009)