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SPARQ Faculty Director Jennifer Eberhardt discussed her research on racial bias in policing at a Stanford roundtable conversation on Wednesday, January 14, 2016. The roundtable was part of the event "Just Mercy: Race and the Criminal Justice System." OpenXChange, the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Office of Public Affairs, and the Stanford Alumni Association hosted the event. It opened with public interest lawyer Bryan Stevenson's delivery of the 2016 Anne and Loren Kieve Distinguished Speaker Lecture. He is also the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and the author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption....

SPARQ hosted the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy at Stanford University to discuss how to leverage police body-worn camera data.

SPARQ Research Scientist Sarah Lyons-Padilla set out to study why some Muslims in the United States are drawn to radical movements. Her findings, published in The Conversation and reprinted in The Washington Post and Quartz, reveal why homeland security policies that exclude Muslims are counterproductive. The discovery that several of the Paris attackers were European nationals has fueled concern about Muslim immigrants becoming radicalized in the West. Some politicians have expressed views that the best way to avoid homegrown terrorists is to shut the door. The refugee migration debate turned even more contentious after authorities found a Syrian passport...

SPARQ worked with a non-profit organization, Citizen Insights, to survey low-income Californians about their experiences with the state's health benefit exchange. The survey tool? Text messages.