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Department News
September 27, 2014
Grad student Michael Sierra-Arévalo was interviewed by Newsweek for a new piece on American gun deaths. In it, he talks about the difficulties researchers face when they try to get good data on gun-related fatalities, pointing to frequent misclassifications on death certificates and diverse state standards dealing with firearm-related fatalities. The article also mentions the work of our own Professor Andrew Papachristos. Check it out here - and congratulations, Andrew and Michael!