The Ethical Value and Challenges of Community-engaged Research

One of two presentations during a breakout session about the ethical value and challenges of community-engaged research. Robinson discusses: What do we mean by community; Who speaks for the community; What is the base for the research relationship; How do we truly achieve maximum involvement and ownership in the collaboration; What makes community-engaged research ethical

Gravitational Correction to Running of Gauge Couplings

We calculate the contribution of graviton exchange to the running of gauge couplings at lowest non-trivial order in perturbation theory. Including this contribution in a theory that features coupling constant unification does not upset this unification, but rather shifts the unification scale. When extrapolated formally, the gravitational correction renders all gauge couplings asymptotically free.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures; v2: Clarified awkward sentences and notations. Corrected typos. Added references and discussion thereof in introduction. Minor copy editting changes to agree with version to be published in Physical Review Letter