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Stark Receives $435,000 UNICEF Grant

Roger — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:30:00 +0000

Lindsay Stark, a professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a one-year $435,000 grant from UNICEF for a project titled “Intervention Review and Implementation Research to Address Gender-based Violence in Emergencies.” The grant is a continuation of a long-term research collaboration between Stark and UNICEF to address gender-based violence in humanitarian emergencies. The new grant will build the evidence around three core humanitarian interventions for women and girls: humanitarian safe space programming, women’s collectives and parenting programming.

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Brown School Faculty Among Most-Cited Scientists

Natasha — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Eleven faculty members from the Brown School have been named in the Stanford University – Elsevier list of the top 2% most-cited scientists in various disciplines worldwide. The database is created by experts at Stanford University, based on data from Elsevier’s Scopus, the publicly available abstract and citation database of over 100,000 top scientists and their publications in scholarly journals. The most recent dataset is based on the August 1, 2021 snapshot from Scopus that is updated to the citation year 2020. See the most recent data set here. Brown School faculty among the top 2% most-cited: *Installation ceremony scheduled for Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Learn more and register.

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Brown School Connects Artificial Intelligence to Social Work, Public Health Through Open Classroom and New Courses

Natasha — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 17:00:00 +0000

The intelligence may be artificial, but the enthusiasm for it is genuine. Artificial Intelligence (AI), characterized by machine and deep learning, will be the subject of several Open Classroom programs beginning Oct. 14 — and taught for the first time at the Brown School in two courses next year. AI is already transforming large swaths of science and industry in fields such as engineering and computer technology, but has been less prominent in the social sciences. “As policy analysts and quantitative modeling practitioners, we have applied a wide range of statistical methods to analyze patterns from structured data, but most data we encounter day-to-day is unstructured, such as images, texts, and video or audio recordings,” said Ruopeng An, associate professor...

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