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The new Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Hazards Research Hub, led by Oregon State University and the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, will study coastal hazards and community resilience. The National Science Foundation awarded $18.9 million for the hub over five years.

As Congress considers expanding voting rights legislation and some Republican-led states restrict access to voting, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Jake Grumbach is among a group of faculty from institutions around the country calling for national election standards.

Historian Anand Yang writes about the British history of shipping of convicted criminals to other continents; and new world music education books from ethnomusicologist Patricia Shehan Campbell.

A book co-edited by Robert Pekkanen of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Jackson School of International Studies brings together top scholars to study the origins and effects of electoral systems in the United States and other democracies.

A new Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ study reveals people’s perceptions that sexual harassment primarily affects young, feminine and conventionally attractive women. Women who fall outside that prototype not only are perceived as unharmed by harassment, but also have a harder time convincing others that they have been harassed.

The COVID-19 pandemic and social-distancing guidelines have changed how we celebrate the holidays this year. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ psychologist Jonathan Kanter explains that, by being intentional about how we approach and experience the season, we can find joy, and recognize – even embrace – how we’ve weathered this year.

A new Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ study finds that Black youth are more likely than white youth to be treated as “usual suspectsâ€� after a first encounter with police, leading to subsequent arrests over time. Even as white young adults report engaging in significantly more illegal behavior, Black young adults face more criminal penalties.

A research team led by UC Irvine and the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has created a new model of how the coronavirus can spread through a community. The model factors in network exposure — whom one interacts with — and demographics to simulate at a more detailed level both where and how quickly the coronavirus could spread through Seattle and 18 other major cities.