Anjali DasSarma

Important caveats in SUNY's new top 10 percent direct admission policy -- such as minimum SAT/ACT scores, AP scores or an advanced diploma. In practice, it means that while Black or Latino students represented 51% of the top seniors in NYC last year, they made up just 36% of students who would qualify for direct admission to SUNY. https://lnkd.in/egn9JNQa

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I had the chance to present a collaborative research poster titled "Assessing Bus Stop Accessibility and Equity in Johnson City, NY: A Spatial Analysis of Socioeconomic Disparities" at the 2024 AAG Middle States Regional Meeting! In this study, bus stop accessibility was measured across 18 block groups in Johnson City, NY, using a composite accessibility index based on access road density and bus stop service area. The analysis aimed to uncover disparities and evaluate overall equity in transit access. This research underlines the importance of targeted interventions for underserved communities to create a more inclusive and balanced transit system. #Transportation #SpatialAnalysis #TransitEquity #AAGConference2024 #GIS

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Unprecedented federal and state investments in New York's #semiconductor sector mean we're going to need a new generation of workers to fill these labs and fabs. The University at Albany College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering (CNSE) and Northeast Regional Defense Technology Hub (NORDTECH) are teaming up to provide scholarships to future #chips leaders to ensure we have the people we need to maintain the United States' tech edge.

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How do we motivate people to vote? In our (Hannah Waldfogel and Andrea Dittmann) new paper in PNAS, we find that reframing voting as a duty to *others* predicts political interest and engagement. Read here: https://lnkd.in/gbyJQUgW

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Now out at PNAS!: Our new paper on how we can reframe messages around voting to boost voter turnout. 📈 In the US, we often see messages encouraging people to vote to "make their voice heard" or "exercise their individual rights." 🗣 However, we find that this is NOT the type of messaging that is most motivating to potential voters. Instead, we find that reframing voting as a way to "work together with others" is a more reliable way to boost people's interest in voting. 👪 With the 2024 election less than 6 months away, it's really gratifying to see this live online now. 💡 And by far the best part of this whole thing is working with Hannah Waldfogel & Hannah Birnbaum. A true dream team! 💯 Check out the paper here: https://lnkd.in/e5TD4Ue8

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Last week, I attended the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) 120th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia -- I heard it's always sunny there? :) I am forever grateful for the opportunity to share the my ongoing work about child malnutrition case in Indonesia from the political science lens, and now I know better how to improve it! But an academic conference is also the perfect place to invoke an inferiority complex or an imposter syndrome because the more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know -- this is exceptionally germane to academia. How did I overcome such an experience? I discuss it in my latest blog post.

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November is Academic Writing Month - a time to reflect on our writing practice and recommit to excellent research-based writing. While #AcWriMo has an "academic" slant I think the points I discussed this month are relevant to those who write creative nonfiction, journalists, and others who bring research into their writing. The fourth installment is now online! See the whole series here: Week 1 Define what originality means for you and use critical and creative thinking. https://lnkd.in/g849erwY Week 2 Develop a scholarly voice and find the courage to speak. https://lnkd.in/gfvJyqk5 Week 3 Communicate insights. Create pictures, stories or examples. https://lnkd.in/gZE4T2fs Week 4 Encourage originality: Create a culture of inquiry in the classroom. https://lnkd.in/g5qjMXRr Textbook & Academic Authors Association Margaret R. Roller Helen Kara Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) gGmbH #academicwriting #socialresearch #qualitativeresearch

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Irina Boboschko investigates the impact of human involvement on reader appreciation in sensor-based journalism. As datafication reshapes journalistic processes, transparency becomes increasingly important. Drawing on literature on process transparency and social translucence, this research-in-progress paper proposes a model to examine reader reactions to the presence of human involvement in sensor-based reporting. Irina Boboschko #IRM2024 #AI #artificialintelligence #GenAI #journalism #AIjournalism #SensorJournalism #Transparency #business #research #ResearchInsights

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Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, colleges, community organizations and student advocates are looking to boost on-campus civic engagement through voter registration and participation initiatives. A few examples: - Salem State University in Massachusetts has a student ambassador program, Voter Registration Ambassadors (VRA), launched in 2021 to encourage voting in local elections. Each VRA is paid to partner with a campus department or community organization to integrate voter engagement. The university has also hosted a Voterpalooza event, featuring the campus mascot and ambassadors. - University of Washington has a coalition of campus members (including students, staff, faculty, community members and civic leaders) called Democracy Dawgs who meet regularly to increase student voting rates at the university. - George Mason University launched You’re the Voter in 2023 to research civic engagement on college campuses, encourage voting among young people and provide experiential learning opportunities. The initiative sends first-year students participating in the Democracy Lab residential learning community into classrooms to provide information about voting and encouragement to vote.  Reporting by Ashley Mowreader.

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I spent two years as an editor of an academic journal and have been drafting and editing op-eds for clients for over five years. Here are my top four tips for recent grads looking to elevate their writing outside of academia: 1️⃣ Talk how you write and don’t write how you talk 👉 When we speak, we often fragment and transition our sentences in ways that don’t read well for formal writing. But don’t fret, you can still bring your own voice to formal writing by incorporating the way you speak. For instance, I love using alliterations both when I speak and when I write. By incorporating alliterations into my writing, my voice still comes through without sounding informal. 2️⃣ Emphasize your voice 👉 The easiest way to do this is to write about the topics you care about! Did you become interested in humanitarian relief because your family was impacted by a natural disaster? Use that experience to frame, humanize, and personalize your piece. 3️⃣ Know your audience 👉 In grad school, we’re often tasked with writing for a knowledgeable or even expert audience. In the real world, however, we often write for the general public or an audience with only some background on the topic. Avoiding unnecessary technical jargon and clearly organizing your argument will make your piece land with a diverse audience. Always ask yourself, "Would someone in a different field just skim over this paragraph because it’s too technical?" 4️⃣ Always have a hook! 👉 This is one of the greatest lessons I take from media relations. Why is your piece relevant to this audience, this outlet, and at this time? We may not judge a book by its cover, but we definitely judge writing by the opening paragraph. Craft your opening to show relevance or risk losing your audience from the start.

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Sharing our recent research on women and jails in Massachusetts. This has been a product of the work of students and members of the Women and Incarceration Project at Suffolk University. https://lnkd.in/gS5SD9cz Key points addressed in the report: Most women in the jails are classified as pre-trial, often spending a few days or weeks incarcerated. Sentenced women spend, on average, several months in jail. These stays are unlikely to have rehabilitative value and do not contribute to community safety. Women in county jails trend younger than women in prison. Most women in county jail are in their childbearing and childrearing years. Nearly all women in county jails suffer from chronic mental and physical health challenges. Jails are not well-equipped to manage these problems. Even short stays have adverse consequences for women and their families. These include disruptions in medication and relationships with healthcare providers and shifting children into the care of others. Jails are increasingly serving as back-up solutions for unhoused and ill people. Treatment inside of jails (and prisons) is less effective and more costly than treatment in the community. Sheriffs have a great deal of authority to release many of the people under their supervision on day reporting, GPS monitoring, and work release programs. However, they make little use of these options. Massachusetts does not collect data on issues of key concern to women. For example, we have not been able to locate data on the number of women who are pregnant.

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As a reminder, if you're a journalist or podcast host looking to talk about historical frameworks and present-day and longterm implications of the things we call "AI," I've been told I give pretty good interview. For examples, see: https://lnkd.in/erCtjacS https://lnkd.in/eHNkbPSq (NB: This is not the only thing I'll do interviews about, nor is anyone asking guaranteed a "yes;" I'm just putting this back out there.)

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Big finding from this study: Giving students choices meaningfully improved their engagement in class and with materials, as well as highlighted students’ tendencies to opt in to more difficult assignments and policies—a majority of students opted for a more demanding assessment option as well as mandatory attendance. #highered #teaching #assessments

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Louisa Lincoln and I have a new academic article out that examines how public media could be reimagined and repurposed to better serve local information needs. We conclude that a renewed investment in the existing system in tandem with structural reforms presents a possible pathway towards a more sustainable future for local news. https://lnkd.in/e22taCDY

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Please consider submitting your work to our Call for Papers for JAE 79.2 “Palestine.” ⁠The theme editors invite contributions in the categories of Essay, Design, Narrative, and Image, and welcome work that challenges the conventions of politics and forms. Submissions could evidence how bombing, demolition, destruction, ruination, and scorched earth constitute military strategies planned and implemented for decades to fragment, debilitate, and destroy Palestinian-built, social, economic, cultural, and natural environments. Contributors might map, represent, theorize, and historicize genocide, ecocide, spaciocide, terracide, and urbicide as practices of colonial erasure and unpack the way they appear and operate. They may consider destruction as a form of design and planned operations entangled in a multiplicity of imaginaries, actors, materials, media, spaces, laws, capital, and power relations. Visit https://lnkd.in/esHM4Yx7 to learn more. ⁠ Submission Deadline: January 21, 2025 Theme editors: Nora Akawi, Nick Estes, Omar Jabary Salamanca, and Zoé Samudzi Image Credit: Amal Al-Nakhala #JAE #JournalOfArchitecturalEducation #CallForPapers #AcademicJournal #SubmitToday 

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Dear Book-Reviewing Friends: if you’re interested in reviewing a funny campus novel that’s also a feminist revenge narrative, please consider my debut! Unlucky Mel will be published on 9/15/24 (pre-orders are available now) by Cornell University Press. The link to learn more about UM and receive an ARC is below!