Roland Fryer received NSF Career Award

Professor Roland Fryer has received a NSF Career Award entitled "New Methods for Understanding Race, Inequality and Spatial Separation." The NSF Career Award is one of the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty early career-development, providing foundational awards to teacher-scholars that most effectively integrate research and educational activities. Roland's $400,000, 5-year award is in support of his long-term research and teaching agenda related to developing new methods for understanding race, inequality and spatial separation. Two broad, multi-faceted research projects will be investigated; the first develops and applies a new segregation index based on social interactions and then applies it to various contexts in the United States and United Kingdom, and the second explores a simple index of compactness that can be used to help adjudicate gerrymandering claims.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of integrated contributions to research and education.

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