American Indian and Alaska Native persons have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic facing three times the likelihood of infection and death than white counterparts. Because they represent a small percentage of the national population, they face existential threat and remain invisible to the public at…
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With every election cycle, political campaigns become more and more reliant on online platforms to target voters. Yet, regulatory measures for campaigns have not kept pace with the rapid development of digital campaigning. The public is largely in the dark about the…
Particulate matter dramatically lowers life expectancy in India, especially in north India where crop residue burning is a significant contributor to the air pollution burden. We use a randomized controlled trial in the state of Punjab to test the efficacy of conditional cash transfers (i.e., payments for ecosystem services, or…
The Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment at Princeton University/SPIA is sending a delegation of students, researchers, and faculty to attend COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from November 6-18. We will be hosting our second of two livestreams from Egypt on:
Environmental justice communities, those disproportionately affected by pollutants, are simultaneously exposed to multiple environmental stressors and also experience social and cultural factors that may heighten their health risks in comparison to other communities. Availability of fine-grained, community-level data is limited…
The Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment at Princeton University/SPIA is sending a delegation of students, researchers, and faculty to attend COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from November 6-18. We will be hosting two livestreams from Egypt on:
During World War II, the Army hired women to hand-calculate ballistics trajectories for artillery firing tables. But these differential calculus equations took over 2 dozen hours by hand, and the Army needed thousands of them. In an attempt to speed up the calculations, the Army agreed to fund the creation of a truly…
