Noshir Contractor participated in a panel at the Innovative Assessment of Collaboration 2014 workshop organized by Educational Testing Services in Washington DC on November 3, 2014
Noshir Contractor presented SONIC research at Cornell University’s Information Science Colloquium co-sponsored by Yahoo! on October 15, 2014
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SONIC research on “Pairing Social Networks with Social Motives to Close the Science Gap” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Contractor delivered the inaugural Elihu Katz colloquium at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania on Sep 5, 2014
Noshir Contractor participated on a panel titled “Toward a Network Science of Digital Data in Organizations” at the annual Academy of Management convention in Philadelphia on August 4th, 2014
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Noshir Contractor participated on a panel titled “Using Big Data to Advance Psychological Theory: Report From the NCI – Big Data for Theory Advancement” at the Association of Psychological Science annual conference on May 25, 2014
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SONIC member Lindsay Young starting in August 2014 as post doctoral scholar at University of Chicago
Starting in August, Lindsay will be joining the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination (CCHE) at the University of Chicago as a Postdoctoral Scholar. Under the leadership of Dr. John Schneider (MD, MPH) CCHE is dedicated to eliminating HIV transmission by utilizing social, sexual and other risk networks to identify 1) pathways of HIV transmission; 2) how behavior and influence are transmitted through these same networks; and 3) how these networks can be leveraged for integrated prevention interventions. Lindsay will be engaging in research activities that include analysis of data from men having sex with men (MSM) networks and other network interventions in South Chicago and South India.
Noshir Contractor will be a co-Principle Investigator on a $8.7-million NIH grant titled “Multilevel Influences on HIV and Substance use in a YMSM Cohort”
This will be the largest comprehensive study of young men who sleep with men ( MSM ) recently launched. The multidisciplinary study will include psychologists, physicians, virologists, developmentalists, network scientists and statisticians from Northwestern University, Oxford University and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Dr. Brian Mustanski—director of the IMPACT LGBT Health and Development Program in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University—will lead the study. For more, click here.
Noshir Contractor presented SONIC research as part of the A. Watson Armour III Research Seminar Series at the Field Museum, Chicago on April 23, 2014
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