Institute for Research in the Social Sciences

Chinese Delegation Visits IRiSS

eliset@stanford.edu — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:08:33 +0000

A delegation of Chinese college presidents visited Stanford for a tour of experimental research labs on November 15th, 2012.

Annual Conference on Computational Social Science

cthomsen@stanford.edu — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:04:56 +0000

Save the date. On January 11, 2013, IRiSS will host an all-day Conference on Computational Social Science. The first conference held last June attracted over 130 faculty and graduate students from 19 departments and schools throughout the university. A schedule for the 2013 conference is posted at our CSS website.

Presentations from the last conference are available online at the CSS-2012 conference website.

REP Welcomes New Program Director

cthomsen@stanford.edu — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:16:50 +0000

IRiSS is pleased to welcome Carolyn Ybarra (Stanford PhD in Anthropology) as the new program director of the Research Experience Program. Ybarra succeeds Lynn Chin (Stanford PhD in Sociology), who served as the program director from its founding in 2005. Chin left Stanford to accept a position as assistant professor at Washington and Lee University.

The Research Experience Program is a collaboration with Foothill Community College. REP introduces college students to experimental research in the social sciences. For additional information, see the Research Experience Program website.

IRiSS Awards First Computational Social Science Fellowships

cthomsen@stanford.edu — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:03:56 +0000

The Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) is pleased to announce the awardees of Stanford’s first competition for graduate student Fellowships in Computational Social Science. The three winners are Henning Piezunka (Management Science and Engineering), Bertrand Schneider, (School of Education and Computer Science) and Rebecca Weiss (Communication).

Snipp Assumes New Role with IRiSS

cthomsen@stanford.edu — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:05:09 +0000

May 21, 2012. Karen Cook announced the appointment of C. Matthew Snipp as deputy director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. Snipp, who is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Humanities and Sciences, has worked with the Institute since its founding in 2004. He will continue to serve as director of the Institute’s Secure Data Center, providing access to microdata of the federal government through the U.S Census Bureau’s network of research data centers.

New Certificate in Cultures, Minds & Medicines

cthomsen@stanford.edu — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:25:23 +0000

This spring, a new graduate certificate in Culture, Minds and Medicines will be offered through IRiSS. Tanya Lurhmann, the Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins University Professor in the department of Anthropology, will serve as the director of the program. She is joined by five faculty from three departments who will serve on the steering committee. Luhrmann reported that 40 graduate students have been participating in a workshop since the beginning of the year, featuring speakers from Medical Anthropology, Cultural Psychology, and Medicine. Read more at Cultures, Minds & Medicines.

2012 Stanford Summer Institute in Political Psychology (SIPP), July 15-Aug. 4

IRiSS — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:51:14 +0000

SIPP is a three-week intensive training program introducing graduate students and professionals to the world of political psychology scholarship. Special pricing and course credit is available for Stanford students. On-line applications are now being accepted. For details, visit the SIPP website.

IRiSS scholar presents East Palo Alto school transfer program findings

IRiSS — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:45:22 +0000

How far can school choice programs go in leveling the playing field? Insights to the academic and social effects of a local desegregation program on transfer students were presented by Kendra Bischoff at a January 2012 special meeting of the Palo Alto Board of Education, as reported in Palo Alto Online.

Bischoff, whose work at the IRiSS Secure Data Center helped facilitate the findings, focuses on the causes and consequences of racial and economic segregation in neighborhoods and schools, the effect of school context on student outcomes, and civic engagement among disadvantaged youth.

PACS Grants for Student Research

IRiSS — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:52:08 +0000

The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) awards small grants to undergraduate and graduate Stanford students who are pursuing research in philanthropy or civil society, for projects such as undergraduate honors theses, master's students capstone projects and doctoral student research.

Applications for Winter Quarter proposals are due Monday, February 6. For details, visit the PACS website.

PACS Grants for Student Research

IRiSS — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:52:08 +0000

Applications for Winter Quarter proposals are due Monday, February 6. For details, visit the PACS website.