Beth Clark (Allen-Berenson Fellow) and David Sherman (English, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies) will explore the support group experiences of parents/primary caregivers of gender creative children and transgender youth. Identifying benefits and limitations of various support group approaches (e.g., online, peer-led, trans adult-led, professional-facilitated) will inform development of evidence-based programs and arts-based knowledge translation products to promote clinician and public education.
Dmitry Troyanovsky (Theater Arts) will create a genre-bending theatrical experience based on Euripides’ The Bacchae. He will work with two well-known New York artists, librettist/playwright Stephanie Fleischmann and composer Daniel Kluger. Retelling the story of The Bacchae via original songs, the classic play will be transformed into contemporary music theater.
Bulbul Chakrabory (Physics) will address a question that is of fundamental importance in geophysics and materials science: how do granular materials respond to stress? The objective is to construct a transformative theory that is universal in its applicability, and rooted in bedrock physical principles such as conservation laws.
Caitlin Gillespie (Classical Studies) will begin a new book project centered on women’s movements in the early Roman empire. The book explores the history of Rome’s foundations, focusing on women who broke traditional gender boundaries in times of crisis and impacted the course of history.
Colleen Hitchcock (Biology and Environmental Studies) will develop a formal partnership with the National Park Service to evaluate (new and existing) participatory community science programs (a.k.a. citizen science), using the places, projects and partners of the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park.
Cluster analysis, a fundamental domain in machine learning, has attracted increasing attention in academic interests and industrial applications. However, partitional results from the most of current clustering algorithms might be biased and unfair because they do not account for demographic attributes like race, gender, and age. Hongfu Liu (Computer Science) will revisit cluster analysis from a fair perspective to balance these demographic attributes for privacy protection.
Service provision for parents with disabilities in the child protection system. Miriam Heyman (Lurie Institute for Disability Policy, Heller School) will provide the first national-level examination of supportive services provided to parents with multiple disabilities during their involvement with the child protection system. This knowledge will inform service development, implementation, and dissemination, to improve support for parents and children within the child protection system.