How can the United States, one of the wealthiest nations on earth, have the highest rates of poverty among industrialized nations? In a new book, “The Poverty Paradox,” based on decades of research, renowned poverty expert Mark Rank, a professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, develops a unique perspective for understanding this puzzle.
Dorian Traube, a professor in the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California, has been appointed as the next dean of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, effective Aug. 1, announced Chancellor Andrew D. Martin.
A recent study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis found that racial discrimination is linked to depression among college-educated Black Americans.
Tess Thompson, research assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a five-year $1.1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study unmet social needs of cancer patients and their caregivers.