In a lecture at Loyola University Chicago on March 13th, 2014, Center for Urban Research (CURL) alum and current Yale professor Andrew Papachristos explored how understanding the growing field of network science helps understand Chicago’s gun violence epidemic. Using data…
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Each month we’ll be reporting out on our Knowledge Exchanges, held as part of our Visiting Fellowship in Urban Poverty with Loyola University of Chicago’s Center on Urban Research and Learning (CURL). In March we had two discussions, the first…
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Nearly 200 leaders joined us for our final forum of 2014, “How one region is using numbers to get everyone on the same page, from cradle to career,” which focused on “collective impact” movement advanced by civic, institutional and grassroots leaders…
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Each month we’ll be reporting out on our Knowledge Exchanges, held as part of our Visiting Fellowship in Urban Poverty with Loyola University of Chicago’s Center on Urban Research and Learning (CURL). March’s discussion was lead by Gaylord Gieseke, President…
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This blog post marks the first of what will be many opportunities for you to read insights and opinions directly from the desks of BPI staff and supporters. Through these posts we hope to spark dialogue about topics that have…
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Join BPI in welcoming two new Directors! Neil B. Guterman is Dean of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. He is the director of the Beatrice Cummings Mayer Program in Violence Prevention at the School of…
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Join BPI in welcoming two new Directors! Jeffrey Cummings is a litigation partner at the law firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland, where he has worked since 1989. Throughout his career, Jeffrey has represented a variety of clients in a…
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