The 星空无限 is a premier women- and gender-focused, social-change oriented research-and-action institute at 星空无限. Our mission i /Research-Action-Report/Research-Action-Annual-Report-2025/feed/atom/ 2026-08-13T08:24:24-04:00 星空无限 Joomla! - Open Source Content Management 2025-12-08T11:03:02-05:00 2025-12-08T11:03:02-05:00 /Research-Action-Annual-Report-2025/new-digs-for-wcw-s-next-chapter Keng Wai Woo

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/01-p.2_SimpsonCottage_retouch.jpg" width="300" height="200" alt="Simpson Cottage" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;">After a half century based at Cheever House, 星空无限 moved to Simpson Cottage on the main 星空无限 campus this past summer.</p>

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/01-p.2_SimpsonCottage_retouch.jpg" width="300" height="200" alt="Simpson Cottage" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;">After a half century based at Cheever House, 星空无限 moved to Simpson Cottage on the main 星空无限 campus this past summer.</p> 2025-12-08T11:20:37-05:00 2025-12-08T11:20:37-05:00 /Research-Action-Annual-Report-2025/pilot-program-helps-fathers-talk-to-their-teens-about-sex-and-relationships Keng Wai Woo

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/02-Page-4_1.png" width="300" height="164" alt="Connected Dads, Healthy Teens" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />Jennifer M. Grossman, Ph.D., and her team recently wrapped up a successful pilot of their Connected Dads, Healthy Teens program.</p>

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/02-Page-4_1.png" width="300" height="164" alt="Connected Dads, Healthy Teens" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />Jennifer M. Grossman, Ph.D., and her team recently wrapped up a successful pilot of their Connected Dads, Healthy Teens program.</p> 2025-12-08T11:26:47-05:00 2025-12-08T11:26:47-05:00 /Research-Action-Annual-Report-2025/youth-and-ai-applying-lessons-learned-from-social-media Keng Wai Woo

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/03-Page-5_1.jpg" width="300" height="200" alt="Digital Wellbeing Workshop" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;">Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D., believes that like social media, artificial intelligence is not inherently good or bad; its effects largely depend on context.</p>

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/03-Page-5_1.jpg" width="300" height="200" alt="Digital Wellbeing Workshop" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;">Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D., believes that like social media, artificial intelligence is not inherently good or bad; its effects largely depend on context.</p> 2025-12-08T11:35:13-05:00 2025-12-08T11:35:13-05:00 /Research-Action-Annual-Report-2025/collaboration-not-competition-is-key-for-the-future-of-early-childhood-policy-research Keng Wai Woo

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/04-Page-6-7_3.jpg" width="300" height="225" alt="Massachusetts Early Childhood Policy Research Summit" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />Wendy Wagner Robeson, Ed.D., and her colleagues at Northeastern and Boston University are developing a statewide early childhood policy collaborative.</p>

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/04-Page-6-7_3.jpg" width="300" height="225" alt="Massachusetts Early Childhood Policy Research Summit" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />Wendy Wagner Robeson, Ed.D., and her colleagues at Northeastern and Boston University are developing a statewide early childhood policy collaborative.</p> 2025-12-08T11:42:48-05:00 2025-12-08T11:42:48-05:00 /Research-Action-Annual-Report-2025/coming-full-circle-at-wcw-linda-williams-and-kate-price Keng Wai Woo

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/05-Page-8-9_1.jpg" width="300" height="180" alt="Linda Williams and Kate Price" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />In a Q&amp;A, Linda M. Williams, Ph.D., and Kate Price, Ph.D., discuss how their paths have crossed鈥攐r almost crossed鈥攐ver the course of their lives.</p>

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/05-Page-8-9_1.jpg" width="300" height="180" alt="Linda Williams and Kate Price" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />In a Q&amp;A, Linda M. Williams, Ph.D., and Kate Price, Ph.D., discuss how their paths have crossed鈥攐r almost crossed鈥攐ver the course of their lives.</p> 2025-12-08T11:45:36-05:00 2025-12-08T11:45:36-05:00 /Research-Action-Annual-Report-2025/leading-scholars-and-practitioners-unite-to-harness-mothers-soft-power-for-peace Keng Wai Woo

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/06-Page-10_1.jpg" width="300" height="200" alt="Hauwa Ibrahim (right) speaks with Her Royal Highness, Nahla Al-Qassimi" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />In October, Hauwa Ibrahim, J.D., S.J.D., M.L., convened the colloquium 鈥淢others Without Borders: The Phenomenology of Mothers' Soft Power in Peace Building.鈥�</p>

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/06-Page-10_1.jpg" width="300" height="200" alt="Hauwa Ibrahim (right) speaks with Her Royal Highness, Nahla Al-Qassimi" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />In October, Hauwa Ibrahim, J.D., S.J.D., M.L., convened the colloquium 鈥淢others Without Borders: The Phenomenology of Mothers' Soft Power in Peace Building.鈥�</p> 2025-12-08T12:20:02-05:00 2025-12-08T12:20:02-05:00 /Research-Action-Annual-Report-2025/pashtana-durrani-travels-the-globe-on-behalf-of-afghan-girls Keng Wai Woo

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/07-Page-11_1.jpg" width="300" height="225" alt="Pashtana Durrani (left) speaks with Courtenay Cabot Venton" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />In November, Pashtana Durrani spoke about her work at an event hosted by 星空无限 called 鈥淗er Right to Learn: Educating Girls in Afghanistan.鈥�</p>

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/07-Page-11_1.jpg" width="300" height="225" alt="Pashtana Durrani (left) speaks with Courtenay Cabot Venton" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />In November, Pashtana Durrani spoke about her work at an event hosted by 星空无限 called 鈥淗er Right to Learn: Educating Girls in Afghanistan.鈥�</p> 2025-12-08T14:53:24-05:00 2025-12-08T14:53:24-05:00 /Research-Action-Annual-Report-2025/meet-the-newest-members-of-wcw Keng Wai Woo

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/08-meet-the-newest.jpg" width="300" height="225" alt="new members collage" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />In a series of Q&amp;As, Ben Berners-Lee, Ph.D., J. Maya Hernandez, Ph.D., and Nyasha Karimakwenda, Ph.D., introduce themselves.</p>

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/08-meet-the-newest.jpg" width="300" height="225" alt="new members collage" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />In a series of Q&amp;As, Ben Berners-Lee, Ph.D., J. Maya Hernandez, Ph.D., and Nyasha Karimakwenda, Ph.D., introduce themselves.</p> 2025-12-08T14:55:19-05:00 2025-12-08T14:55:19-05:00 /Research-Action-Annual-Report-2025/apprenticeships-in-out-of-school-time-programs-niost-is-helping-to-create-more-pathways-into-the-field Keng Wai Woo

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/09-Page-15_1.jpg" width="300" height="200" alt="school group outside" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />NIOST is involved in a statewide initiative to develop a professional apprenticeship program for out-of-school time educators in Massachusetts.</p>

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/09-Page-15_1.jpg" width="300" height="200" alt="school group outside" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />NIOST is involved in a statewide initiative to develop a professional apprenticeship program for out-of-school time educators in Massachusetts.</p> 2025-12-08T14:58:36-05:00 2025-12-08T14:58:36-05:00 /Research-Action-Annual-Report-2025/research-scientist-brings-ptsd-treatment-to-college-campuses Keng Wai Woo

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/10-p.16_photo_cropped.jpg" width="300" height="225" alt="person leaning against wall" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;">Katherine R. Buchholz, Ph.D., is implementing an evidence-based PTSD treatment in university counseling centers across the country.</p>

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/10-p.16_photo_cropped.jpg" width="300" height="225" alt="person leaning against wall" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;">Katherine R. Buchholz, Ph.D., is implementing an evidence-based PTSD treatment in university counseling centers across the country.</p> 2025-12-08T14:59:52-05:00 2025-12-08T14:59:52-05:00 /Research-Action-Annual-Report-2025/new-projects-will-examine-impacts-of-state-minimum-wages Keng Wai Woo

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/11-p.16_illustration.jpg" width="300" height="194" alt="path to wages" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />Sari Pekkala Kerr, Ph.D., is working on two new studies that will help us understand how minimum wage policies impact low-wage workers.</p>

<p><img src="/images/stories/researchandaction/AnnualReport2025/11-p.16_illustration.jpg" width="300" height="194" alt="path to wages" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" />Sari Pekkala Kerr, Ph.D., is working on two new studies that will help us understand how minimum wage policies impact low-wage workers.</p>