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Every year, the AAPSS welcomes a group of accomplished scholars and public servants into the Academy as Fellows. In the past, this group’s accomplishments and contributions have been [...]

In a new book, Voice, Choice, and Action: The Potential of Young Citizens to Heal Democracy, AAPSS Fellow Felton Earls, a psychiatrist, joins with neurobiologist Mary Carlson to explore how […]

In a study of Republican voters’ sentiments published in September in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, AAPSS Fellow Larry Bartels, the May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public [...]

Seven decades ago, Robert Merton alerted social scientists that the application of their work in policymaking “has not been systematically reviewed and codified.” Consequently, he wrote, we don’t [...]

Social Science Space editor Michael Todd interviewed AAPSS Executive Director Tom Kecskemethy about the Moynihan Prize; the following is reprinted from Social Science Space. The American Academy [...]

James S. Jackson, the 2012 AAPSS W.E.B DuBois Fellow and the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at the University of Michigan, died on September 1 following a [...]

You’ll be hearing from the AAPSS staff again in the very near future because, on September 1, we’ll be calling for nominations for the 2021 Moynihan Prize, an award that […]

AAPSS Fellow Raj Chetty–working with a group of researchers from Opportunity Insights, a nonpartisan research and policy institute focused on improving economic opportunity that he [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically reduced human impact on the planet in 2020, providing a unique opportunity to observe the influence of humans on the environment and to consider a […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on educational opportunity gaps, one of the lingering consequences of increasing economic inequality over the past several decades. The struggle to [...]