Rice University sociologist Corey M. Abramson has been selected as a 2026–27 residential fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Abramson’s research examines how health and American society are deeply interconnected, combining large-scale computational analysis with in-depth fieldwork in settings such as cancer clinics, dementia care facilities and urban neighborhoods. During the fellowship, he will complete a forthcoming book, Unequal Anatomies, and further develop AI-based methods for qualitative health research. His work aims to better understand how social conditions shape health outcomes and to inform policy conversations around aging, inequality and care.

The Brunel Centre, a new data and research centre designed to support sustainable and inclusive growth and industrial strategy in the West of England, today releases its first major publication, a Strategic Economic Audit of the region. 

For half the world’s population, the water in their drinking glasses comes from below them. Groundwater also supplies 40% of global irrigation projects.

Losing health insurance can quickly worsen health for people with diabetes as patients struggle to control the disease after coverage is interrupted, according to new research from Oregon Health & Science University,