Contractor delivered a webinar for the National Cancer Institute, Behavioral Research Program, Science of Research and Technology Branch, Speaker Series on “Disruptive Research Approaches from Academia, Government, and Industry” on March 28, 2013.
Research on networks among women in science by SONIC members Lindsay Young, Sneha Narayan and Noshir Contractor featured at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston on February 16, 2013
For details see: http://bit.ly/AAAS13-SONIC
Contractor presented his research on team assembly at Northwestern U.’s Kellogg Attitudes Motivation and Processing (KAMP) Speaker Series on February 8, 2013
For more information, see here.
Paper on MOOCs with University of Maryland iSchool co-authors nominated for Best Paper Award at HICSS 2013
The paper titled The dynamics of open, peer-to-peer learning: What factors influence participation in the P2P University? was nominated for a Best Paper Award at the Proceedings of the 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Learning Analytics and Networked Learning track), 2013.
Authors: June Ahn (Maryland iSchool), Cindy Weng (SONIC), Brian Butler (Maryland iSchool)
Paper co-authored with collaborators at RPI and NCI wins Top Paper Award at HICSS 2013
Paper titled Towards Next Generation Health Data Exploration: A Data Cube-based Investigation into Population Statistics for Tobacco by James P. McCusker, Abdul Shaikh, Noshir Contractor, Paul Courtney, Jeongmin Lee, Glen Morgan, Zaria Tatalovich, Chavon Thomas, and Deborah L. McGuinness received the Top Paper award in the IT Innovation for Change in Healthcare track at the HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (HICSS) 2013. Paper available at: http://bit.ly/HICSS2013
Article by Brian Keegan (SONIC alum, now at Northeastern U), Darren Gergle (Northwestern U) and Noshir Contractor (SONIC) titled “Hot Off the Wiki: Structures and Dynamics of Wikipedia’s Coverage of Breaking News Events” published in American Behavioral Scientist
See http://bit.ly/10znAG3
Contractor delivered a keynote at the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Informatics in Washington on Dec 16, 2012.
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-Noshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences
Contractor presented a seminar titled “Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 21st Century” at Northwestern University, Qatar, on Dec 2, 2012
SONIC members Sneha Narayan and Noshir Contractor participated in a workshop on “Climate Change and Sustainability Communication- New Tools and Trends” held on December 1, 2012 at Northwestern University Qatar.
The event was associated with the annual meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP 18, being held in Doha, Qatar. For more information see: http://bit.ly/cop18-NU-Q