Profile of Bruce Western

Profile of Bruce Western.

On a summer afternoon in the late 1990s in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park, sociologist Bruce Western and his colleague Katherine Beckett engaged in a conversation that would change the course of their research. At the time, Western studied the social programs of European welfare states. Against the backdrop of a park that had seen a surge in drug dealing and homeless encampment in the 198...

Bruce Western

al contours of American social inequality have been transformed by the rapid growth in the prison and jail population.1 America’s prisons and jails have produced a new social group, a group of social outcasts who are joined by the shared experience of incarceration, crime, poverty, racial minority, and low education. As an outcast group, the men and women in our penal institutions have little a...

Profile of Bruce Levin.

For population biologist Bruce Levin, opening the incubator to see how yesterday’s experiment worked is his ideal way to start the day. That anticipation has kept the Emory University professor of biology excited about his research on the population and evolutionary biology of bacteria for more than 40 years, and motivated a shift in interest from multicellular organisms to bacteria. Anything t...

Profile of Bruce A. Beutler.

Late one night in October 2011, Bruce Beutler checked his e-mail and saw a tantalizing subject line: it simply said, “Nobel Prize.” Beutler’s first thought was that it was a general announcement about that year’s Nobel Prizes, but as he read further he realized he had been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. “Usually people speak of the phone call they received, but in my ca...

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