By Clay Risen Christopher Jencks, a highly regarded sociologist who helped transform public and expert opinion on complex policy issues like homelessness, income inequality and racial gaps in ...

But that was all before she met Christopher S. “Sandy” Jencks ’58. Then a professor of sociology at Northwestern, Jencks hired Edin as a part-time researcher. After working together for five ...

“Frank gave us so much publicity, and allowed us to raise the money,” Jencks says. Each center is self-financed through donations. Try as we might to inure ourselves to the opinions of ...

Ahead of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award ceremony and winner's lecture on Monday 4 November, we look back at the award and the life of its patron Charles Jencks, who sadly passed away on this month.

It’s more than 35 years since Charles Jencks – the critic credited with the briefly shocking idea that modern architecture was dead, and then with popularising postmodernism – first opened the door of ...

Dominic Jencks said he and his two friends were dismissed from Maise E. Quinn School and were heading to a friend's house to play basketball together when all three of them were struck.

In 2008, the William P. Jencks Early Music Room was established through the generosity of Mrs. Miriam Jencks and friends and former students of Professor William P. Jencks. This climate-controlled ...

Minnesota's floor score of 49.450 tied a season-best on the event. Marissa Jencks nailed a career-best 9.875 while Sophie Swartzmiller hit the same score in her first ever non-exhibition routine. "I ...