Racial Justice

June 11, 2024
Associate Professor Gabe Chan and postdoctoral researcher Bhavin Pradhan published a paper, "Racial and Economic Disparities in Electric Reliability and Service Quality in Xcel Energy’s Minnesota Service Area," which asks whether disparities exist in access to shared infrastructure systems, focusing on the electric system, an essential service delivered by heavily regulated public utilities.
October 1, 2023
Professor Samuel Myers Jr. has been awarded a two-year, $417,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study racial disparities in drowning deaths. While conventional explanations for these disparities focus on individual behaviors and characteristics,  Myers and the project team hypothesize that structural factors such as systemic racial discrimination play outsized roles in explaining the racial disparities.