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Addressing Racial Equity Through Human-Centered Design
An effort underway by the government of the District of Columbia demonstrates how acts as simple as redesigning municipal forms can make government more equitable for all residents.
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APS Microgrants Fund Innovative Teaching Projects
One project will compare the effectiveness asynchronous online courses. Another uses livestreaming from head-mounted cameras to facilitate blended lab collaboration.
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Is It Possible to Rid Police Officers of Bias?
The killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis three months ago and the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Wisconsin have led the US to a period of reckoning. As thousands have
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Talking About Racial Bias With the Author of ‘Biased’
Few can speak more authoritatively to the subject of racial bias than Stanford psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt. In her 2019 book Biased, the MacArthur genius unpacked decades of research, some performed by herself and her colleagues, that helps explain
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Student Notebook: Police Brutality and Mental Health in the African-American Community
Repeated incidences of racial discrimination and violence have far reaching consequences for mental health.
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Can Playing Together Help Us Live Together?
APS Member/Author: Elizabeth Levy Paluck The contact hypothesis in psychology predicts that prejudice can be reduced when rival groups come together under optimal circumstances of cooperation and equal status. To date, the weight of real-world
