Check out this article by Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management featuring SONIC’s Director Noshir Contractor and how his research is helping teams, both in space and on Earth, collaborate more effectively.
https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news/blog/2022/04/08/noshir-contractor-nasa-research.aspx 

We are sad to announce that our Lab Manager Arshya Srinivas will be leaving us, but are excited to announce that she is taking on a position as a Senior Supply Chain Analyst at Walgreens! Good luck in all your future endeavors Arshya—SONIC will miss you!

Check out how Noshir Contractor and Leslie DeChurch were featured in this new article by The Economist titled “How to Prevent Conflict on the Way to Mars”! Available on The Economist – https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2021/12/18/how-to-prevent-conflict-on-the-way-to-mars or SONIC’s website – https://sonic.northwestern.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/How-to-prevent-conflict-on-the-way-to-Mars-_-The-Economist-compressed.pdf

SONIC alum Brooke Foucault Welles recently won the National Communication Association Diamond Anniversary Book Award for coauthoring with Sarah Jackson and Moya Bailey on #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice. Congratulations Brooke!

This past Thursday, 11/18/2021, Noshir Contractor gave a talk entitled “Reimagining Theories and Methods to Understand and Enable the Algorithmically” for the WKWSCI Speaker Series!

The Association for Computing Machinery recently celebrated via the video below the ACM Fellows for 2019, including SONIC’s own Noshir Contractor!

SONIC is looking to bring as many as four podcast producers/editors onto our team! These people will work with SONIC on new shows launching on the International Communication Association Podcast Network. See the below description for more details!

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SONIC’s space research has been featured in the current issue of the Northwestern magazine, as well as a couple Northwestern PSA videos! All of these can be found at northwestern.edu/mars ,

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We are so excited to be able to offer an in-person option for our lab meetings again! Yesterday was our first hybrid SONIC lab meeting since March of 2020.

SONIC is excited to look for more data science interns to add to our team! If you are interested in advancing the social network theory through the development of cutting-edge techniques alongside a passionate team of individuals, check out the form here and see how to get involved!