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WATCH THE VIDEO HERE. SLIDES FOR THE PROGRAM ARE HERE. Over the past 50 years, the highest-earning 20% of U.S. households have steadily brought in a larger share of the country’s total income. The Pew Research Center reports that, in 2018, households in the top fifth percentile earned…
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REGISTER HERE! Do you find yourself working even longer hours since you’ve started working from home, even though you no longer have a commute? Does it feel like you are working during every waking hour, even though you expected to have so much more time to yourself? One…
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WATCH THE VIDEO HERE. Mindfulness is a hot topic these days, but does increasing our mindfulness make us more ethical? And if so, how can we understand the moral dimension of mindfulness in the larger framework of moral philosophy. While mindfulness might be correlated with well-being, one might…
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SPRING 2021 Being, Thinking, Doing (Or Not!): Ethics in Your Life Offered in cooperation with the MIT Philosophy Department (Course 24.191)Led by Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt (Postdoctoral Associate in Philosophy) and Patricia-Maria Weinmann (Radius Associate Coordinator). Our weekly group discussion-based seminar introduces students to the field of ethics, with a focus on the…
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For many Black scientists and researchers, working in academia means weathering systemic bias, micro-aggressions, and isolation. Dr. Shardé Davis, a communications researcher at the University of Connecticut, created #BlackInTheIvory this past summer as a platform for discussing the experiences of Black academics. Dr. Davis joins Dr. Mareena Robinson Snowden, a…
