[Sci-tech-public] STS Colloquium, Monday, April 10, 4:00 pm

[Debbie Meinbresse]

STS Colloquium - Monday - April 10th

The Racial Achievement Gap and What to Do About It

Roland Fryer
Harvard University

4:00 p.m., MIT, E51-095

Roland Fryer, Jr. is an assistant professor of 
economics at Harvard University, a faculty 
research fellow at the National Bureau of 
Economic Research, and a junior fellow in the 
Harvard Society of Fellows – one of academia’s 
most prestigious research posts. He has published 
papers on topics such as the racial achievement 
gap, the causes and consequences of distinctively 
black names, affirmative action, the impact of 
the crack cocaine epidemic, and ‘acting white.’ 
He is an unapologetic analyst of racial 
inequality who uses theoretical and empirical 
tools to squeeze truths from the data – wherever 
that may lead. One of Fortune Magazine’s “rising 
stars” and featured in Esquire’s “Genius Issue,” 
Fryer’s work has been profiled in the New York 
Times, Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and 
Black Voices.  Please join us on Monday, April 10th, at 4:00 pm.



Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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