News

May 2009

May 12th 2009
Immanent Frame bloggers debate Obama, civic virtue, and common good in new series, “These things are old.”
May 11th 2009
CUP interviews Mitchell Orenstein, editor of pensions book for new Columbia-SSRC series exploring the privatization of risk in the U.S.
May 11th 2009
Board Executive Committee Member John Seely Brown quoted in New York Times: “Data, Not Design, Is King in the Age of Google.”
May 7th 2009
CUP interviews pensions book editor Michael Orenstein.
May 7th 2009
SSRC researchers compare findings on the religious lives of migrant minorities at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
May 2nd 2009
New Study Confirms Cross-Ownership Leads to Less Local Content

April 2009

April 29th 2009
Program director Alex de Waal delivers Colby College lecture, “Can Sudan Survive?”
April 24th 2009
The Migration Program announces the availability of new resources on migration and development for free download.
April 22nd 2009
SSRC’s Measure of America findings cited in Wilson Quarterly essay “Can America Fail?”
April 20th 2009
Sixty graduate students win SSRC fellowships to develop dissertation proposals on topics from development studies to the human sciences.
April 20th 2009
Program director Josh DeWind is quoted in the San Diego Union-Tribune for remarks delivered at USD’s “Migration, Religion and National Identity” conference.
April 17th 2009
Craig Calhoun relates C.W. Mills’ teachings to economic crisis.
April 9th 2009
The APSA membership journal reports on the SSRC’s 2008 Hirschman Prize Ceremony and Memorial Conference in honor of Charles Tilly
April 7th 2009
Program director Lee Sigal talks about Japan’s antagonistic response to North Korea’s satellite launch on PBS “World Focus”
April 2nd 2009
Future of Music Coalition Releases Study on Independent Music Airplay
April 2nd 2009
Program director Lee Sigal argues in the Chicago Tribune that seeking UN Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang will fail.
April 1st 2009
Martin Marty re-reads a 1937 SSRC Research Memorandum on Religion in the Depression

March 2009

March 31st 2009
David Kyuman Kim answers questions about agency for SSRC.org interview.
March 25th 2009
Washington Post obituary: John Hope Franklin passes away at 94
March 24th 2009
Richard Arum quoted in NYT article “Strip-Search Case Tests How Far Schools Can Go”