On November 15th, Noshir Contractor and Wei Chen discussed the usage of network science in building teams and supporting design preference modeling!

Read the article here: https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/2021/12/design-and-engineering-intersect-in-new-event-series/

Watch the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyyaHIPpBWU&list=PLdULCJWbGgZROyteCtpKUZZL_w3p2APth&index=3

Congratulations to Jasmine Wu, Brennan Antone, Arshya Srinivas, Leslie DeChurch and Noshir Contractor on publishing a paper with the Journal of Applied Psychology! The paper is titled “Teamwork in the Time of COVID-19: Creating, Dissolving, and Reactivating Network Ties in Response to a Crisis”

Wu, Y. J., Antone, B., Srinivas, A., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2021). Teamwork in the time of COVID-19: Creating, dissolving, and reactivating network ties in response to a crisis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(10), 1483–1492. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000969

Noshir Contractor delivered a lecture at the Hong Kong Baptist University School of Communication and Film yesterday, on the topic “People Analytics: Using Digital Exhaust from the Web to Leverage Network Insights in the Algorithmically Infused Workplace”.

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!

Congratulations to Sophie Fu, Michelle Shumate and Noshir Contractor for receiving the Bill Eadie Distinguished Scholarly Article Award for NCA’s Applied Communication Division this year! They received this award for the article submission “Organizational and individual innovation decisions in an interorganizational system: Social influence and decision-making authority”.

Congratulations to Noshir Contractor for receiving the ACM Fellows Award, selected in 2019! Watch the announcement here!

Congratulations to Noshir Contractor and Leslie DeChurch for presenting the “Teamwork in the time of COVID-19: Creating, dissolving, and reactivating network ties in response to a crisis” paper today! This paper is a collaboration with Jasmine Wu, Brennan Antone and Arshya Srinivas.

SONIC is proud to partner with the ATLAS lab in training the Northwestern University twin teams for the SIRIUS 21 240-day simulated space mission which “launched” on Thursday November 4, 2021 at the Nazemnyy Eksperimental’nyy Kompleks in Moscow! These Martian analysis teams will work with SIRIUS 21 crew to find water on Mars, bringing us all closer to seeing humans set off for the red planet!