Dr. Monica Wang Featured In Research on Tap about Health Misinformation

In the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic, dealing with health misinformation has become a part of our daily lives and has highlighted the importance of conducting research in this area.  The Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering and the BU Office of Research co-sponsored a recent Research on Tap […]

The Panola Project Screens at Sundance Film Festival

The Panola Project, a short documentary film created by Rachael DeCruz, Associate Director of Advocacy, and her partner, Jeremy S. Levine, is screening at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and will be available for virtual viewing until January 30. The Panola Project illuminates how an often-overlooked rural Black community came together in creative ways to […]

New Study Finds Advance Child Tax Credits Reduced US Food Insufficiency by 26%

Congratulations to Dr. Paul Shafer and colleagues for their recent JAMA Network Open publication: ‘Association of the Implementation of Child Tax Credit Advance Payments With Food Insufficiency in US Households’. As their new cross-sectional study demonstrates, using repeated surveys of a nationally representative sample of U.S. households, the introduction of advance payments for the Child […]