Paper by Julie M Birkholz, Alina Lungeanu, Rena Bakhshi, Peter Groenewegen, Maarten van Steen, and Noshir Contractor titled “Methodological specifications for application of the mean-field model for large scale social networks” was presented at the Sunbelt 2013 conference in Hamburg, Germany on May 24, 2013.
Paper by Cindy Weng, Yun Huang & Noshir Contractor titled “A Multilevel Model to Predict Organizational Turnover” was presented at the Sunbelt 2013 conference in Hamburg, Germany on May 22, 2013
Noshir Contractor was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) from 2013 to 2016.
Paper by Mengxiao Zhu, Noshir Contractor and Stanley Waserman titled Correspondence Analysis of Multilevel Networks was presented at the Annual Sunbelt Social Networks Conference in Hamburg on May 25, 2013.
Team assembly paper published in Social Networks
Paper titled Motivations for self-assembling into project teams by Mengxiao Zhu, Yun Huang, and Noshir Contractor has been published in Social Networks, Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2013. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Contractor presents at a National Cancer Institute Webinar
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