by afrancis1 | Aug 2, 2022 | news, Uncategorized
The study finds evidence of political behavior by judges appointed under Article III of the U.S. Constitution — but perhaps not as distressing as fears of “politicians in robes” By Sarah Steimer Researchers have made efforts to test the Politicized Departure...
by afrancis1 | Jul 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Professor Chris Berry has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. This election goes to scholars who have made breakthroughs in fields ranging from condensed matter physics to...
by afrancis1 | Jan 21, 2022 | news, Uncategorized
Congratulations to Xingruo (Summer) Zhang on being selected as one of five winners of ASA’s Health Policy Statistics Section (HPSS) student paper competition for 2022. Her paper entitled “Defining R-Squared Measures for Mixed-Effects Location Scale...
by afrancis1 | Dec 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to Professor James Evans, Department of Sociology, for being named Max Palevsky Professor in History and Civilizations in the College. James uses large-scale data, machine learning and generative models to understand how collectives think and what they...
by afrancis1 | Jan 25, 2021 | news, Uncategorized
Congratulations to Qianheng Ma, 5th year doctoral student in Public Health Sciences, who was selected by the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP), to receive the 2021 SMEP Dissertation Research Grant. SMEP is an organization of quantitative...
by afrancis1 | Aug 14, 2020 | news, Uncategorized
The National Science Foundation has announced an award of a 3-year methods training grant ($1M) for a summer institute in advanced quantitative and computational methods for STEM education research to be housed at the University of Chicago. The project is a joint...
