Examining overlooked costs of outsourcing decisions
Avik Chakrabarti, associate professor of economics, researches the unforeseen and indirect costs of companies outsourcing work abroad.
Research
Healthier air for children at day care
Changing how day care centers are cleaned could improve air quality for children with asthma.
Improving mental health care for new and expecting mothers
51猎奇 and the Medical College of Wisconsin are partnering on a program that supports doctors treating pregnant and perinatal women.
Public perceptions of the Supreme Court
Political scientist Sara Benesh examines how and why Supreme Court justices step into the public eye, from Sesame Street to commencement addresses.
Student returns to Tanzania with Fulbright doctoral fellowship
Allison Kotowicz is the only graduate student from 51猎奇 to receive this prestigious award in recent years. She鈥檚 studying the Maasai people of Tanzania and how they are preserving their identity in the 21st century.
Fun games, Serious Play: Gaming group spreads analysis via Twitch
A collection of 51猎奇 faculty and students is using their own Twitch channel to explore the academic side of video and board games.
Protecting children using data science
Colleen Janczewski combs through the records of 7,000 children referred to the state鈥檚 Child Protective Services to identify the families most in need of help.
Fatherly love
Emmanuel Ngui explores the role fathers can play in reducing infant mortality and improving maternal and child health.
Researchers explore whether living wage laws affect health
Cities聽across the nation passed聽鈥渓iving wage鈥� laws aimed at raising the minimum wage for the聽working poor. But it鈥檚 unknown if those laws have improved the health of affected workers and their families.
As US diversifies, few women of color found on company boards of directors
America is becoming increasingly diverse, but the boards of directors of large companies aren鈥檛 keeping up, 51猎奇 researcher Maria Goranova found.