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Released: 7-Mar-2017 1:05 PM EST
WashU Expert: Hiring Data Creates Risk of Workplace Bias
Washington University in St. Louis

American employers increasingly rely on large datasets and computer algorithms to decide who gets interviewed, hired or promoted.While these data algorithms can help to avoid biased human decision-making, they also risk introducing new forms of bias or reinforcing existing biases.Pauline Kim, Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law at Washington University in St.

   
Released: 7-Mar-2017 3:05 AM EST
Texas Tech Team Targets Tornadic Storms in the Southeast with VORTEX-SE
Texas Tech University

Chris Weiss Pitch Texas Tech University researchers will spend the next two months in the Tennessee Valley region collecting data during severe storms as part of the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast (VORTEX-SE), a congressionally-mandated research project. VORTEX-SE aims to study the conditions that produce tornadoes, particularly in the Southeast.

Released: 2-Mar-2017 2:05 PM EST
WashU Expert: Trump and GOP Face Catch-22 Trying to Alter ACA
Washington University in St. Louis

While President Trump and a Republican-controlled legislature look to make good on campaign promises to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, political reality is kicking in, says a health economist at Washington University in St. Louis.“They face a vicious Catch-22 as they attempt to replace Obamacare,” said Tim McBride, professor at the Brown School and noted expert on health reform, especially Medicare and Medicaid policy.



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