Tag: Carnegie Corporation of New York

  • Nation & World

    Carnegie Corporation names fellowship winners

    Economist Raj Chetty and sociologist Michèle Lamont of Harvard are among the Andrew Carnegie Fellows named this year by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Also known as the “Brainy Award,” the fellowship grants up to $200,000 to each of 32 researchers writing and publishing in the humanities and social sciences.

    5 minutes
    Chetty and Lamont
  • Nation & World

    You are when you eat

    A new study may help explain why glucose tolerance — the ability to regulate blood-sugar levels — is lower at dinner than at breakfast for healthy people and why shift workers are at increased risk of diabetes.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    After Katrina, residents rolled up sleeves

    Tom Wooten ’08 discussed his latest book, which profiles several grassroots recovery efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

    4 minutes