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Dr. Maurice Stevens, a Senior Faculty Research Advisor at The Kirwan Institute, has been awarded the 2016 Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award from The Ohio State University. The Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Awards recognize individuals or groups who have demonstrated a significant commitment to enhancing diversity at Ohio State and to exceeding expectations in implementing the Diversity Action Plan.

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Download Creating a baseline typology to guide investment (preliminary findings).

 Share your voice, be a part of the conversation & our research Gender Norms are the popular and conventional ideas most people have about what it means to ‘act like’ a man or a woman. We tend to learn them from our experiences in the family, peer groups, churches, schools, movies, magazines, and the internet, for example. They come to be taken for granted or thought of as ‘natural’ and ‘just the way things are.’ Gender Norms tend to be narrow and limit the range of possibilities for gender expression.

By Philip J. Mazzocco, Kirwan Institute Faculty FellowAssociate Professor of Psychology, Ohio State University Mansfield

By Philip J. Mazzocco, Kirwan Institute Faculty FellowAssociate Professor of Psychology, Ohio State University Mansfield

With the focus of sharing our research and resource materials with our national partners and those interested in topics such as implicit bias, fair housing, opportunity mapping, and structural radicalization, the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity has expanded its social media network to Pinterest.

Champion of Children Report

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Download The Kirwan Institute began publishing its annual State of the Science: Implicit Bias Review in early 2013. We are very excited to release this third issue as a part of our continued commitment to help deepen public awareness of brain science work underway at universities and colleges across the country about hidden biases that can shape our judgments and decision-making without our conscious awareness.

Never before have we, as a society, seen such long lifespans for such a large number of people. Never before have we, as a community, had to grapple with the opportunities and challenges presented by living in a community with so many aging family members. Living longer can be a blessing and a gift. It can be a challenge, particularly when one faces poverty, housing insecurity, disability, or isolation. Vulnerable seniors typically do not face a single difficulty, but compounded challenges.

Download For the Gulf Coast super region containing New Orleans and Baton Rouge, events such as Hurricane Katrina and the BP Oil Spill have highlighted existing inequalities in access to opportunity. In the years since these events, efforts to rebuild the region have often reflected those pre-existing inequalities and even exacerbated them.

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