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Colloquia and events
8 IPR Distinguished Public
Policy Lecture
“The Earnings Gap and Women’s Longterm
Economic Security” by Heidi
Hartmann, President of the Institute for
Women’s Policy Research; Research Professor
at George Washington University,
March 29
8 Policy Briefings
*Supported with funding from the Joyce Foundation
“Community Change in Chicago: How
is the Landscape Shifting?” by Wesley G.
Skogan, Professor of Political Science and
IPR Faculty Fellow; Mary Pattillo, Associate
Professor of Sociology and African American
Studies and IPR Faculty Associate; and Juan
Onésimo Sandoval, Assistant Professor of
Sociology and IPR Faculty Fellow, March 10
“Children’s Achievement: What Does
the Evidence Say About Teachers, Pre-K
Programs, and Economic Policies?” by Larry
V. Hedges, Board of Trustees Professor of
Statistics and Social Policy and IPR Faculty
Fellow; Thomas D. Cook, Joan and Sarepta
Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice, Professor
of Sociology, Psychology, Human Development,
and Social Policy, and IPR Faculty
Fellow; and Greg Duncan, Edwina S. Tarry
Professor of Education and Social Policy and
IPR Faculty Fellow; May 19, Washington,
D.C., and December 5, Chicago
8 Conferences and Workshops
“Healthcare in America,” with Jacob
Hacker, Professor of Political Science, Yale
University, January 25. Organized by Monica
Prasad, Professor of Sociology and IPR
Faculty Fellow. Co-sponsored with Northwestern’s
Center for International and Comparative Studies
“A Nation in Conflict: Hurricane Katrina,”
with panelists Alice Palmer, former Director
of Northwestern’s African American Student
Affairs, former Illinois State Senator,
and Co-chair of a trans-Atlantic exchange
of ideas program; Greg Duncan, Edwina
S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social
Policy and IPR Faculty Fellow; and James
Rosenbaum, Professor of Human Development
and Social Policy and IPR Faculty Fellow,
Februrary 8. Co-sponsored with Northwestern’s
Women’s Center
J. Reblando
Thomas Cook answers a question on pre-K programs at
the IPR policy briefing on children’s academic achievement,
with fellow panelists and IPR faculty fellows Larry Hedges and
Greg Duncan, on December 5.
“Economic Apartheid in America,” with
Felice Yeskel, Executive Director of Class
Action, November 15. Co-sponsored with
Northwestern’s Department of Gender Studies, Multicultural
Student Affairs, LGBT Resource Center, and
AKA Sorority
8 Colloquia
Winter 2006
“You Can’t Win, You Just Lose: Encounters
Between the Police and the Public” by Wesley
G. Skogan, Professor of Political Science
and IPR Faculty Fellow, January 9
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