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Throughout the fall semester faculty, staff, and students participated in programs focused on building an inclusive campus community. 

“There’s no such thing as a purely ‘natural’ disaster. These events enter into what’s already in place in terms of class, race, gender, poverty, and other factors—they therefore have differential effects.”That’s the core insight guiding Joni Seager’s work on the gendered nature of natural disaster outcomes, and it’s one that she’s quick to point out builds on the work of many other scholars in the field. For a long time, Seager says, the class implications of natural disasters have been obvious, as the poor are the least resilient with the fewest resources. In the last few years, however, Seager and others have been looking at the gendered aspects of natural disaster preparedness and disaster recovery efforts around the world -- and the implications for women are troubling.

Please peruse the following select examples of our faculty research that have either been published or accepted by leading outlets.

Eight funded networks move to the next stage of trans-disciplinary research, engaging resources within and outside the university.

As an applied microeconomist, Dhaval Dave looks at how and why individuals make decisions and how these decisions respond to costs and benefits.  In some scenarios — say, buying a new TV — the stakes are relatively low. Others, such as choosing a health care plan, carry more serious implications. Then there are choices whose outcomes can be life changing.Dave’s current research falls squarely into the latter category. The Stanton Research Professor in Economics at Bentley University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research is studying the juvenile justice system in Washington state to determine which type of approach produces lower rates of recidivism among offenders under the age of 18.  

As we count down the fall semester, we look forward to friends coming back from abroad and a new batch of falcons leaving the nest to embark on their own adventures. For me, spring semester means the start of my semester abroad at the University of Mannheim in Germany. Being abroad means learning a new […]

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Business and higher ed need to work together to prepare grads for work. Here are five ways to do it. 

A Bentley professor and students show how you can learn leadership skills through ballroom dancing.

Can U.S. public policy help solve a prominent world financial crisis? It’s among the tough questions that Edith Joachimpillai ’12 intends to answer. A researcher at a Washington, D.C.–based think tank, she explores issues such as Europe’s eurozone debt crisis and using technology to help educate underprivileged children in India.   Joachimpillai joined the Brookings […]

Kristina Minnick, associate professor of finance and expert on mergers and acquisitions, is available to comment on the FTC’s blocking of the Staples and Office Depot merger.