The Thriving Dark Web

In 2013, Ross Ulbricht, the head of Silk Road, an e-commerce platform for illicit drugs, unwittingly revealed his name in an email, leading to his arrest by the FBI and the closure of the platform. But that did not stop its operators and users. Within a couple of...

Moving Pictures

The study took the groundbreaking approach of leveraging online data from Meta to provide the most comprehensive and timely estimates of migration’s true global sweep to date. The co-author of the research, Professor Guy Abel from the Department of Sociology,...

Reels of Integrity

You can take Professor Ruby Yang out of film, but you cannot take film out of Ruby Yang.Professor Yang won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject in 2007 for The Blood of Yingzhou District about the effects of AIDS on orphans in the province of Anhui in...

When Foreign Governments Meddle in Elections

When Professor Dov Levin of the Department of Politics and Public Administration was embarking on his PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles in the early 2010s, he picked up a book from the library that would open a whole new field to him. The book concerned...

Relief for the Lonesome

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Professor Doris Yu Sau-fung of the School of Nursing was overseeing a team of nurses working to identify and engage with ‘hidden elders’ – those who live alone – and bring them to community facilities for health...