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IPR’s inaugural news magazine, Research Impact, is now available online! This new publication highlights many of our faculty's notable activities and research across 2024 and 2025.  
 
Our first issue showcases how IPR research moves beyond the page—shaping policy, informing public debate, and addressing urgent challenges, including safe drinking water, violence prevention, and health disparities. If you want to learn more about any of the research covered, you also can dive deeper at ipr.northwestern.edu. 
IPR Scholar to Lead Work on Student Learning and Development as a Carnegie Senior Fellow 
IPR social psychologist Mesmin Destin was named a senior fellow by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, joining a group shaping the next generation of skills that high school students need to thrive in a fast-changing world. He will participate in the ongoing development of an evidence-based approach to cultivating student skills, learning, and development. 
Research News
DNA Project Seeks to Reunite Ukrainian Children with Their Families
As Russia’s war on Ukraine enters its fifth year, more than 35,000 Ukrainian children remain missing. Northwestern’s Global FamDNA Working Group, co-led by IPR political scientist Tabitha Bonilla and geneticist and IPR associate Sara Huston, is building the first independent DNA repository to reunite families torn apart by conflict. After fieldwork in Ukraine, the team is laying the groundwork for a system designed to help families reconnect now—and decades in the future. 
Upcoming Events
Join us for two upcoming IPR panels exploring how research moves from scholarship to real-world impact. Please note that both events are held in person only.

On March 2, “Evidence into Impact: Research at the Policy Table - Health Policy” will convene leaders from the Chicago Department of Public Health and the Illinois Department of Public Health alongside IPR faculty to discuss how health research informs policy decisions. Register here.

On March 9, “Making It Make Sense: Journalism’s Role in Translating Social Science for Policy and the Public” will feature faculty from the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications exploring how journalists translate social science for policymakers and broader audiences. Register here.  

Faculty Insights

 
“Public health research focuses on interventions while criminal justice focuses on disrupting the drug supply and criminalizing drug use. The solution is somewhere in the middle.”
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