Research Impact
Winter 2026
Newsletters
Browse our collection of newsletters below. If you're looking for previous newsletters (before 2009) email ipr@northwestern.edu to request a copy.
2026
2025
Improving Neighborhoods to Improve Lives | Fourteen New Experts Join IPR to Strengthen Policy Innovation
Winter 2025
2023
The Past and Future of Affirmative Action in College Admissions | IPR Experts Turn Research Excellence into Policy Impact
Summer 2023
2022
Fake News, Big Lies | The Science and Practice of Street Outreach in Illinois
Summer 2022
2021
Fair Housing and Housing Inequalities | New Funding for COVID-19 Research
Summer 2021
2020
Racial Disparities and COVID-19 | Child Health as Human Capital
Summer 2020
2019
Looking Back at IPR@50 | A Website Relaunch
Fall 2019
Larry Hedges Wins Yidan Prize | Predicting Police Misconduct
Spring 2019
2018
Crime in Chicago | A Vision for the Future of Education Research
Summer 2018
2017
IPR Welcomes New Director| Expanding the Northwestern- Evanston Education Research Alliance
Summer 2017
2016
IPR Welcomes Eight New Fellows | Tackling Global Inequality
Fall 2016
2015
Biology and Beyond | Education in the Digital Age
Fall 2015
Four Faculty Join IPR | Racial Disparities in America
Winter 2015
2014
The Road to College | Two-Generation Initiatives to Create Opportunity
Summer 2014
2013
The State of Healthcare | Matching Administrative Data to Inform Policy
Fall 2013
Reinforcing the Roster | Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences
Spring 2013
2012
White House, AAAS, Others Honor Faculty | Housing, Desegregation, and Opportunity
Summer 2012
2011
Statistics Of, By, and For the People | IPR Announces Incoming Director for 2012
Fall 2011
2010
IPR Welcomes Six New Faculty Fellows | Moving Research into Classrooms
Fall 2010
New Grants, New Ideas | Improving No Child Left Behind
Spring 2010
2009
IPR Marks 40 Years | Promising CAREERs
Fall 2009