On November 5, 2025, PIRL Director Stefanie DeLuca gave a seminar for UCLA’s California Center for Population Research, a research center composed of an interdisciplinary community of scholars striving to further the research of social and demographic aspects of health.

On September 25, 2025, PIRL Director Stefanie DeLuca presented a lecture for the international nonprofit Social Science Research Council (SSRC) titled 

Dr. DeLuca spoke about "Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice" at the 2025 Public Solutions R&D Conference.

Dr. DeLuca, who received her PhD in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University in 2002, returned to campus as IPR’s inaugural visiting scholar.

Dr. DeLuca spoke at the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics as a featured speaker in the Mark C. Berger Workshop Series.

Dr. DeLuca presented "Sub-Baccalaureate Swirling: Understanding Timing, Trajectories, and Degree Completion for Community College Students" at the 2025 Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting.

Dr. DeLuca spoke at a lunch talk for Yale University’s DISSC, Department of Economics, and Center for Empirical Research on Stratification and Inequality (CERSI). The presentation was titled “Utilizing Mixed Methods and Qualitative Research to Enhance Policy Science.”

The following description is featured on the event invitation:

Please join us to explore our role in national discourses on intellectual pluralism, how we educate students to ensure they understand a variety of perspectives, and how to cultivate the capacity to face…

 

Session Title: Qualitative Findings on Housing Mobility Programs for Families in the Housing Choice Voucher Program (panel)

Time: 8:30am-10am ET

Paper Title: “When Someone Cares about You, It’s Priceless”: Reducing…