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Curious about how Knology works with journalists? This post sheds some light on our approach to research with the news media.

In this article, we share findings from a nationwide survey of the US public’s awareness and use of libraries’ entrepreneurship programs and services.

Knology advances social science scholarship.

Two earlier posts in this series focused on Knology’s transdisciplinary approach to political science. This one looks at Knology’s tradition of integrating political science with systems thinking.

This edition of the Searching for Justice series profiles the work of Taylor Paul, a community-organizer and business leader who has founded and contributed to numerous initiatives aimed at giving power back to those who have gone through the US carceral system.

In this edition of our “Behind the Research” series, we discuss the methods and analytical tools used to collect, process, and interpret the data that served as the basis for “Number Soup: Case Studies of Quantitatively Dense News”—a study undertaken jointly with researchers at PBS NewsHour.

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Recently, Knology partnered with New York Sun Works to assess the impact of two resources that were designed to promote science learning among children through studying plant biology and food systems in urban areas.

This post highlights the process of drafting an effective logic model using Knology's work with the 10-Minute Walk Campaign as an example

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A research-focused series has helped professionals identify and understand patterns in their field and plan for shifts that will influence their work.

How should we define the term “museum”, and why does this matter?

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Stories of frontline health care workers during COVID-19's first wave

Knology is evaluating an education program that is promoting a culture of STEM and health learning for youth in the DC, Baltimore, and New York metro areas, developed by the Children’s Research Institute at Children’s National Hospital

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This edition of the Searching for Justice series profiles the work of Taylor Paul, a community-organizer and business leader who has founded and contributed to numerous initiatives aimed at giving power back to those who have gone through the US carceral system.

In this edition of our “Behind the Research” series, we discuss the methods and analytical tools used to collect, process, and interpret the data that served as the basis for “Number Soup: Case Studies of Quantitatively Dense News”—a study undertaken jointly with researchers at PBS NewsHour.

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This post expands the Numbers in the News series by highlighting how people make sense of quantification without numbers.

This edition of the Numbers in the News series studies how audiences reason about trends in behavior based on national polls. The results reported here are based on a single experiment in a larger sequence of experiments.

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Two earlier posts in this series focused on Knology’s transdisciplinary approach to political science. This one looks at Knology’s tradition of integrating political science with systems thinking.

How can political science promote the public good, and how can Knology contribute to this cause? In the second of a series entitled “Perspectives on Political Science.” Johann Chacko discusses Knology’s application of political science from Joseph de la Torre Dwyer’s work on “just deserts” and financial education to his own work on social movements and the concept of “mass anxieties.”