| Economics research team creates study to examine access to primary care doctors
With a new two-year NIH grant, PSU economists Rajiv Sharma and Arnab Mitra will expand their Longitudinal Access to Physicians study, a research model that uses simulated patients with distinct insurance, race/ethnicity, and gender profiles to show how populations are accessing primary care physicians. In their initial results, a white male self-pay patient, the profile found to have the highest access, was able to get an appointment 70 percent of the time. Meanwhile, a Hispanic woman on Medicaid, the profile with the lowest access, was offered an appointment only 14 percent of the time. Read more about the study.
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| PDX Talks features several CLAS presenters
Walidah Imarisha, instructor in Black Studies, presented "Why aren't there more black people in Oregon" for PDX Talks, a TED-talk inspired event that occured during October's Portland State of Mind. Other CLAS presenters included Lee Shaker, Communication; Hunter Shobe, Geography; and CLAS History alum Jack Ohman '99. Watch the PDX Talks videos.
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CLAS Faculty Brown Bag: Aesthetics and Cartography in Contemporary Mexico
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| Faculty & Staff
Accomplishments
Read more here Diana Abu-Jaber, English, published the essay "Lamb Two Ways" in The New Yorker. Brittany Erickson, Mathematics, received an NSF grant for her collaborative research project, "From Loading to Rupture - how do fault geometry and material heterogeneity affect the earthquake cycle?" Kimberly Kahn, Psychology, discussed her collaborative research on racial bias at crosswalks with the Washington Post.
Robert Roeser, Psychology, received a research award from the Mind & Life Institute to study contemplative education and mindfulness in the classroom.
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