AAPSS In the News

The Academy mourns the loss of Alan B. Kreuger, 58, who died on March 16, 2019. A Fellow of the Academy since 2004, Kreuger was awarded the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize in 2017. The prize is [...]

A census challenge—George Washington complained about it in 1790—is locating and recording the “hard-to-count.”  The hard-to-count were reliably measured in the 1940s at 5.4 percent.  Operational [...]

In 2015, economists Alan Krueger of Princeton University and Lawrence Katz of Harvard University published an influential survey of the so-called gig economy. In it, they concluded that the [...]

The Academy is pleased to announce that former ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize.  She will deliver [...]

Lawrence D. Bobo, the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences and chair of the department of African American Studies at Harvard University, was recently named Harvard’s Dean of Social [...]

AAPSS Fellow Carol Dweck of Stanford University has been awarded the 2018 SAGE-CASBS Award in recognition of her pioneering career in the field of social psychology. Dweck is most known for her [...]

On July 19, the Academy joined the Brookings Institution for an event marking the publication of the July 2018 volume of THE ANNALS, Evidence-Based Social Policy: The Promise and Challenges of a [...]

Board member Arthur Lupia has been selected to head the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation.  This directorate supports research in [...]

The Academy’s 2018 annual Gala Dinner was held on May 17, at the Willard Intercontinental in Washington, DC.  At the dinner, the Academy inducted five new fellows: Maria Cancian of the University [...]

On May 17, 2018, Dr. John Holdren gave the 2018 Daniel Patrick Moyihan Lecture on Social Science and Public Policy at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, DC, to an audience of about [...]