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• Profs & Pints DC: Understanding Immigration

  • When
    July 29, 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Penn Social, Washington DC

  Profs & Pints DC: Understanding Immigration

  Tue, Jul 29th, 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 PM EDT
  Penn Social, Washington, DC

  Profs and Pints DC presents: “Understanding Immigration,” a deep and nuanced examination of today’s immigration realities, trends, and challenges, with Ernesto Castañeda, professor of sociology and director of the Immigration Lab and the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University. 

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  Professor Castañeda was the 2023 recipient of the DCSS Rosenberg Award for Outstanding Sociological Achievement.

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• A Cognitive View of Policing

  • When
    July 30, 2025
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

  From the Social Science Research Council:

  A Cognitive View of Policing:
  Leveraging Behavioral Science to Improve Officer Training

  A talk by:
  Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago

  Wednesday, July 30, 2025
  3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Eastern

  "What if the key to police reform isn't changing policies or removing "bad actors," but understanding how good officers make decisions under pressure? Professor Dube argues that prevailing approaches to police reform overlook a fundamental reality: officers must make decisions under intense stress and time pressure—cognitive conditions that lead even well-intentioned officers to rely on mental shortcuts and default assumptions. Drawing on insights from behavioral economics, Professor Dube designed a new training approach that addresses these cognitive realities. Through a sustained partnership with the Chicago Police Department, she tested whether changing how officers think could transform how they act. This seminar will present the results from this collaboration, demonstrating how behavioral science offers a promising new pathway for police reform that works with, rather than against, human psychology."

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