It is our pleasure to announce that Nick Smith is one of 25 doctoral students (from among 618 applicants) who will receive a grant from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for his dissertation research “Sick by Structure: Residential Segregation, Social Networks, and Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Health.” The Horowitz Foundation provides dissertation improvement grants to students from all social science disciplines, and applicants need not be US citizens. According to the announcement from the foundation, “The Trustees consider their work on topics of social and political importance to be vibrant examples of how policy research can help meet the challenges of today’s complex society.”
Congratulations, Nick!