Tag: ISSC

From cracks in the campus budget, a new research community blooms

From cracks in the budget, a research community blooms

August 22, 2011:

Born of financial crisis, Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Societal Issues has cultivated a more collaborative, community-based approach to social-science research. In the process, a rickety old campus building has been transformed into a place where scholars can do more with less.

Research associate champions literacy in Africa, foster children at home

April 27, 2012:

In her free hours, Deborah Lustig, a research associate at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, plays a key role in the African Library Project, as well as helping foster children navigate the legal system, as a court-appointed special advocate.