Tag: Robert Sampson

  • Campus & Community

    Taking aim at global solutions

    Panels examine challenges ahead: riven democracies, biomedical advances, raging inequity, climate change, harnessing AI, role of academy.

    8–13 minutes
    The “Revitalizing Democracy” panel was held at the JFK Forum.
  • Nation & World

    Were Jan. 6 attackers extremists? Protesters? Patriots?

    How race, gun ownership, and feelings about Black Lives Matter shape Americans’ views of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

    3–5 minutes
    People try to break through barrier at Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
  • Health

    COVID-19 targets communities of color

    Harvard scholars discuss health care disparities in the age of coronavirus.

    5–8 minutes
    Ambulance.
  • Nation & World

    Unpacking the power of poverty

    Social scientists have long understood that a child’s environment can have long-lasting effects on their success later in life. Exactly how is less well understood. A new Harvard study points to a handful of key indicators, including exposure to high lead levels, violence, and incarceration, as key predictors of children’s later success.

    4–6 minutes
    Professor Robert Sampson
  • Science & Tech

    To advance sustainability, fight inequality, researcher says

    A new Harvard study argues that technological approaches to sustainability must be accompanied by efforts to reduce inequality.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    The ways Boston changed

    Students enrolled in the course “Reinventing (and Reimagining) Boston: The Changing American City” examine the city and the many changes it has undergone in recent decades.

    4–6 minutes
  • Health

    Toxic inequality

    According to Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson’s theory of “ecology of toxic inequality,” higher lead levels in the blood are often directly tied to racial and ethnic segregation.

    3–4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    A new view of gentrification

    Researchers used Google Street View to conduct a study of gentrification in Chicago.

    4–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Nine named 2013 Cabot Fellows

    Nine professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The 2013 honorees were awarded for their distinguished publications.

    1–2 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Chicago as urban microcosm

    For his new book, Robert Sampson studied the Second City’s ups and downs for 15 years to outline patterns for many modern American cities.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    APS elects four from Harvard

    The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, recently elected four new members from Harvard into this year’s class of scholars.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Sampson named to Office of Justice advisory board

    U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder named Harvard Professor Robert Sampson, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, to the newly created Office of Justice Programs Science Advisory Board on Nov. 23.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Harvard prof wins prize for criminology study

    The 2011 Stockholm Prize in Criminology has been jointly awarded to John Laub of the National Institute of Justice and Harvard’s Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Robert Sampson for their research showing why and how criminals stop offending.

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Living in disadvantaged neighborhood equivalent to missing a year of school

    Childhood exposure to severely disadvantaged communities is linked to decreased verbal ability later in childhood, a lasting negative effect that continues even after moving out of the neighborhood, according to research that will be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  According to the study, living in concentrated disadvantage decreases…

    3–4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Racial, ethnic gap in youth violence linked to social factors

    A study conducted by Robert J. Sampson of Harvard University and Jeffrey D. Morenoff and Stephen Raudenbush of the University of Michigan shows that the longstanding gap in the racial burden of violence follows a social anatomy and is not immutable. The odds of committing violence are almost double for blacks as compared to whites…

    1–2 minutes