Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the 2003 AAPSS Mahatma M.K. Gandhi Fellow who described and studied the state of focused contentment he called “flow,” died on Oct. 20 at the age of 87. […]
By Marta Tienda, AAPSS President President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty in his 1964 State of the Union address. At the time, 19 percent of all U.S. […]
David Card, the AAPSS 2013 John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow whose work was praised for “empirical contributions to labor economics” by the Nobel Prize Committee in its press release, has been […]
The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) will award the 2022 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize to children’s rights activist Marian Wright Edelman. The Moynihan Prize is awarded [...]
The Academy recently partnered with Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for a pair of webinars focusing on on supporting family income and [...]
By Kenneth Prewitt, AAPSS President Calls for the implementation of research echo across higher education, sometimes labeled research impact or “knowledge-to-action” (the term used in this [...]
When President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) into law in March 2021, observers described it as “the second war on poverty,” almost matching in scope and ambition the […]
The AAPSS Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize event and panel discussion that took place on May 13, 2021, focused on the future of cooperative solutions to climate change and how leaders […]
To me, some of the most hopeful statistics reported since President Biden’s inauguration have to do with cable news primetime viewership. That CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News have all seen […]
Watch the event here Every year, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 increases, and the world experiences more of the effects of climate change. International approaches to lowering emissions [...]
