Insights and Impact Research, trends, and action

Illustration of woman working on laptop inside home

Insights and Impact March 2021

3 Minutes On Offices

Is work from home the way of the future?

Valerie Guarnieri kneels next to a child

Insights and Impact March 2021

Nobel Pursuit

Valerie Guarnieri and the Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN World Food Programme work to "save lives today and change lives tomorrow”

Sarah McBride

Insights and Impact March 2021

Leading by Example

Delaware senator Sarah McBride makes history as the country's highest-elected transgender official

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Insights and Impact November 2020

Call of Duty

Contact tracers deal in sensitive, complex information and bring empathy and humanity to data collection

alt-right protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia

Insights and Impact November 2020

Extreme Makeover

SOE professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss explores Hate in the Homeland

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Insights and Impact November 2020

Good Night, and Good Luck

Proper snoozes are growing scarcer—and the consequences can be nightmarish

An illustrated ballot containing polling facts

Insights and Impact November 2020

Poll Watcher

SOC professor W. Joseph Cambell researches eight voter survey snafus spanning nine decades

Earth melting

Insights and Impact November 2020

3 Minutes On Climate Change Adaptation

How should we plan now that climate change is already here?

woodland creatures in a forest

Insights and Impact November 2020

Where the Wild Things Are

SIS professor Paul Wapner: wildness is not just a place—it's a state of mind

A comedic mask containing a fake nose, glasses, and eyebrows

Insights and Impact July 2020

Seriously Funny

SOC professor Caty Borum Chattoo's new book discusses the punchline's power to spark social change