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The Financialization Of U.S. Higher Education

.The Financialization of U.S. Higher Education”, is available online here" Published in Socio-Economic Review, the study uses a unique new database an innovative theoretical framework for analyzing how non-profits, state agencies, and households have increasingly assumed multiple new roles in...

Do Poor Kids Deserve Lower-Quality Education Than Rich Kids?

This story was originally published by the Economic Policy Institute. Photo: Lauren Manning, Creative Commons, Some Rights Reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS Are charter schools better than public schools? Understanding Rocketship’s business model Good schools: What do we know about what works, and how...

Hins Qiu wins CCBM undergraduate fellowship

Undergraduate student Hins Qiu who has been associated with our lab for almost two years now receives a CCBM student fellowship for the academic year 2023/2024. He will receive a stipend and additional mentoring from the CCBM - a NSF-funded center for biophysics/bioengineering on campus. He is...

Graduate student Patrick Noerr is awarded a poster prize

Graduate student in the group, Patrick Noerr, won second place in a poster competition organized by the CCBM - a NSF-supported interdiscipinary research center on campus - during their annual EAB (External Advisory Board0 Meeting day. Patrick's poster was entitled "Investigating mechanically...

NIH Grant Awarded

The National Institute of Health awarded a R01 grant worth $3 million dollars to Professor Maria-Elena Young. Young's project plans to span across five years looking at health care access and quality of life of latinos in rural communities and how immigration policies have an impact. The project...

Abstract Selected For Oral Presentation

Woo-hoo! Our abstract, titled " The nBAF (mSWI/SNF) Complex Regulates Activity-induced Neuronal Gene Transcription by Facilitating RNA Polymerase II Elongation", was accepted for oral presentation at the Gene Regulation Keystone meeting. Congratulations to Karen (the lead) and the entire team...