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Spring 2022

Government Use of Tech

Dr. Anne Washington participates in a Data & Society’s “What is Public Interest” event on April 27th at 1 pm ET.

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Drs. King and Samii receive Best Book Award!

Diversity, Violence & Recognition: How Recognizing Ethnic Identity Promotes Peace, Drs. Elisabeth King and Cyrus Samii's book, wins Best Book Award.

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Sugary Beverage Taxes

Drs. Beth Weitzman and Todor Mijanovich are part of a new team of investigators studying the impact of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on changes in prices paid and calories consumed in fast food restaurants.

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Causal Frameworks and Discrimination Studies

Drs. Ravi Shroff, Jennifer Hill and colleagues recently coauthored a paper on the causal effects of race or gender on outcomes in discrimination studies.

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COVID-19 Vaccinations and School/Community Resources

Dr. Meryle Weinstein is a co-investigator on a new NIH funded project that examines how COVID has affected children’s health and education in NYC.

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Shortening Patient Health Questionnaires

Dr. Daphna Harel and colleauges conducted the first study to externally validate the results of shortening a patient reported outcome measure through optimal test assembly.

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Speech-Language Treatment Using Mobile App for Biofeedback

Dr. Tara McAllister and the BITS Lab team recently published an article that furthers the evidence-based research for mobile app-based treatments used by speech-language pathologists.

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Fall 2021

Child Speech Therapy

Tara McAllister provides updates on her research on technology-enhanced speech treatments to support children with speech sound disorders.

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Homelessness Risk Screening Tool for Emergency Department Patients

Dr. Tod Mijanovich and colleagues recently developed an interview tool for screening emergency department patients for risk of future homelessness.

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The Ethics of Facial Recognition Technology

Anne Washington recently published an article on data privacy and was quoted in an MIT Technology Review article.

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Using Technology to Help Doctors & Infant Healthcare Providers

Jennifer Hill's research shows how extending Item Response Theory models can help us understand how doctors learn from their mistakes and that in-hospital infant formula supplementation impacts later breastfeeding success.

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The Use of Criminal Risk Assessments in the Justice System

Ravi Shroff recently co-authored a chapter that critically examines the use of statistical algorithms that help predict if people will be repeat offenders.

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Summer 2021

Systemic Discrimination in Policing

Dr. Ravi Shroff has a forthcoming chapter in the upcoming 5th edition of Social Stratification.

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Learners' Resilience in Tests and Collaborative Filtering

Dr. Yoav Bergner recently published an article on the interaction between resilience and ability in assessments. Be on the lookout for a forthcoming article in Psychometrika.

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New Publication! Journal on Education in Emergencies

Read the special issue on Early Childhood Development in Emergencies led by editor-in-chief and PRIISM associate faculty, Dr. Dana Burde and senior managing editor, Dr. Heddy Lahmann.

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Spring 2021

Young Kenyans' views on politics, the state & the future

Read Drs. Elisabeth King, Dana Burde, Daphna Harel, and Jennifer Hill's latest article.

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Connecting with poet Amanda Gorman: Dr. McAllister on difficulties with the 'r' sound

Dr. Tara McAllister's research covers a topic near Amanda Gorman's heart.

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Diet Inequalities in NYC

Read Dr. Carolyn Dimitri's recently published paper on NYC's Healthy Savings Program.

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Improving academic outcomes for students with disabilities

Read Dr. Leanna Steifel's recently published article.

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Shortening the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale

Read Dr. Daphna Harel's recently published article on a novel methodology.

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Fall 2020 - Part 2

Test-Taking for Gifted and Talented Kindergarten

Sharon Weinberg and Ying Lu published an article that demonstrates the importance of addressing diversity in Gifted & Talented programs.

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The Judicial System and Policing

Ravi Shroff has co-authored two papers on the judicial system and policing.

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Statistics Using R: An Integrated Approach

Daphna Harel and Sharon Weinberg's new textbook is now available.

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Mischievous Responders

Read Joe Cimpian's three papers on "mischievous responders."

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What Nairobi Youth Think about Politics, the State & the Future

Read Elisabeth King, Daphna Harel, Dana Burde, Jennifer Hill, and Simon Grinsted's newly published paper.

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Regression and Other Stories (Analytical Methods for Social Research)

Jennifer Hill, along with co-authors Andrew Gelman and Aki Vehtari, has a new textbook just out from Cambridge University Press.

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Fall 2020 - Part 1

Statistics Using Stata: An Integrative Approach

Sharon Weinberg’s second edition textbook.

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Diversity, Violence, and Recognition

Elisabeth King and Cyrus Samii have a new book just out, Diversity, Violence, and Recognition: How Recognizing Ethnic Identity Promotes Peace from Oxford University Press.

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Speech Therapy and Biofeedback

Tara McAllister provides an update on her various projects.

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A Bayesian approach to the Judicial System

Ravi Shroff has co-authored a paper on the judicial system.

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Healthcare Management Programs

Tod Mijanovich is currently working on several projects.

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Gender Equality, and Teacher Bias and Perceptions

Joe Cimpian has been busy with three new sole- and co-authored papers.

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