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New institute will advance social and behavioral science research

Friday, October 25, 2024

A new research hub has launched at Indiana University Bloomington to boost efficiency, collaboration and innovation in the social and behavioral sciences. The Institute for Social and Behavioral Research unites five existing centers, including the Social Science Research Commons, and integrates their expertise in research design, statistical methods, data access, management and grant writing under a single umbrella to create a “one-stop shop” for researchers.

Announcing the Faculty Assistance in Data Science (FADS) internal funding opportunity

Friday, March 19, 2021

The Program for Faculty Assistance in Data Science (FADS) is designed to provide access to expertise and assistance in advanced data analytics, visualization, and development for the purpose of catalyzing faculty research. Applications are due April 12.

Gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots' is being widened by the COVID pandemic, an IU study found

Monday, March 01, 2021

A new study by Indiana University found women, younger individuals, those with lower levels of formal education, and people of color are being hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic.

IU researchers are gaining access to administrative health claims data from Optum’s de-identified Clinformatics® Data Mart (CDM) Database

Thursday, January 14, 2021

With generous financial support from the Responding to the Addictions Crisis Grand Challenge and the Office of the Provost, as well as support from the College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University researchers will have access to a rich new data resource of administrative health claims.

17 Ways IU Is Rising to the (Grand) Challenge

Saturday, October 10, 2020

In 2016, IU President Michael A. McRobbie announced the Grand Challenges program to solve some of our state’s and world’s most pressing problems. Through extensive, interdisciplinary work across six campuses, IU has since developed cancer-killing treatments, helped communities adapt to climate change, and so much more. Here’s just a sampling of the progress we’ve made.

IU Bloomington to gain Federal Statistical Research Data Center

Monday, September 14, 2020

A Federal Statistical Research Data Center facility is coming to the Indiana University Bloomington campus.

Fall 2020 SSRC Services

Monday, August 10, 2020

How we're supporting researchers during Fall 2020, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

SSRC Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Thursday, March 26, 2020

How we're supporting researchers remotely during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

IU Newsroom: New associate vice provost Brea Perry sees role as 'being a catalyst for research impact'

Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Brea Perry is the new associate vice provost for the social sciences in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at IU Bloomington. Perry, who holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in sociology from IU Bloomington, said she sees her role as "being a catalyst for research impact and productivity in the social sciences." She began her career at the University of Kentucky before returning to IU in 2014, where she's been actively involved in teaching, research and publishing.    

SICE hosts CompuCell3D User Training Workshop

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

The School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering hosted the 13th CompuCell3D and SBW User Training Workshop Aug. 5-11, which welcomed a diverse group of 22 students from around the nation and the world to learn to develop multi-scale Virtual Tissue Simulations using CompuCell3D software.

IU researchers gain access to federal data center; information session Sept. 22

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Indiana University researchers now have access to highly restricted data from a range of federal agencies through the Kentucky Research Data Center. Based at the University of Kentucky, the data center is is maintained by a consortium of institutions including Indiana University, Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, University of Louisville and University of Kentucky.

IU Bloomington sociologists present research on gender, drug use, suicide and religion

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Faculty members and graduate students from Indiana University Bloomington presented research findings this week at the 112th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, a four-day meeting in Montreal. Four studies are highlighted below.

Raising the minimum wage would reduce child neglect cases

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Raising the minimum wage by $1 per hour would result in a substantial decrease in the number of reported cases of child neglect, according to a new study co-authored by an Indiana University researcher. Congress is considering increases to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, and several state and city governments have enacted or are considering minimum wages higher than the federal rate. A $1 increase would result in 9,700 (9.6 percent) fewer reported cases of child neglect annually as well as a likely decrease in cases of physical abuse, said Lindsey Rose Bullinger of IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Medicaid expansion under Obamacare can reduce government costs for Supplemental Security Income

Monday, August 07, 2017

Expanded Medicaid eligibility under one part of the Affordable Care Act results in a cost savings for the federal government, according to new Indiana University research. The finding is significant because it indicates that an effort by Congress to save money by trimming Medicaid spending may actually drive up costs in another part of the budget. As residents of 32 states sign up for Medicaid benefits expanded under the act, known as the ACA or Obamacare, some of those residents are dropping off the rolls of the more costly Supplemental Security Income program for the disabled poor, the team of researchers discovered.

Segregation still prevalent in Indiana schools, data show

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Indiana schools on average remain largely segregated by race, ethnicity and family income, according to data recently analyzed by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, or CEEP, at the Indiana University School of Education in partnership with the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

Professor of history, race and policy to present Indiana University McNutt Lecture

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Professor Khalil Muhammad will return to Bloomington this month to deliver the 29th annual Paul V. McNutt Lecture sponsored by the Indiana University Bloomington Department of History. Muhammad is a professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He was on the IU Bloomington history faculty from 2005 to 2011. His lecture, "In Punishment We Trust? The Logic and Legacy of American Punitiveness," will take place from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 20 in the University Club President's Room in the Indiana Memorial Union.

Three IU Bloomington professors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Monday, April 17, 2017

Three Indiana University Bloomington faculty members -- Jerome R. Busemeyer, Sumit Kumar Ganguly and Andre Watts -- have been elected as fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Busemeyer is a Provost Professor of psychological and brain sciences in the IU College of Arts and Sciences. Ganguly is a professor of political science, the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations and director of the Center on American and Global Security in the School of Global and International Studies. Watts is the Jack I. and Dora B. Hamlin Endowed Chair and a Distinguished Professor in the IU Jacobs School of Music.

Development studies and the 'global campus' in the US: A panel discussion with IU Patten Lecturer Michael Watts at the SSRC

Monday, February 27, 2017

Michael Watts, 2016-2017 IU Patten Lecturer, joined a panel of IU faculty for the "Development studies and the 'global campus' in the US" discussion Monday morning at Social Science Research Commons. Watts was joined by Marina Antic, Slavic and E. European Languages & Cultures; Akin Adesokan, Comparative Literature; Ishan Ashutosh, Geography and the Dhar India Studies Program; Nick Cullather, School of Global and International Studies, History and International Studies; Hilary Kahn, School of Global and International Studies and Center for the Study of Global Change; and Stephen Macekura, International Studies. The panel discussed how development studies could or should contribute to research, teaching, and campus culture. The Indiana Daily Student has shared photos from the event.  Watts, a widely cited expert on political ecology, environmental justice, famine and the relationship of oil and gas production with development, will present the final Indiana University Patten Lectures of 2016-17 this week. Watts is the Class of 1963 Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Centennial Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics. His work on vulnerability and resilience, agrarian political economy and other topics continues to shape scholarly debates and research programs. Read more about Watts' Patten Lectures from the IU Newsroom.

IDS: Graduate students learn about campus resources at the SSRC

Saturday, August 08, 2015

Freshmen right out of high school are not the only students starting classes at IU next week. Many master’s and doctoral students are also new to the Bloomington campus. The Graduate Mentoring Center became partners with the Grad Grants Center and the Social Science Research Commons and played host to a resource fair Monday for graduate students to display a variety of resources available to them as IU students.

Inside IU: Speed-networking study speeds campus toward new research

Thursday, March 05, 2015

The electricity in the room was humming, and not just on account of the state-of-the-art digital technology. At each table a pair of scientists and/or social scientists sat across from each other, talking for five minutes until the buzzer rang with a one-minute warning. Then, it was time to move on to the next pairing and eight more rounds of speed-networking. The recent gathering at the Social Science Research Commons in Woodburn Hall was the second of three speed-networking events organized by Meryl Bertenthal and her team at the Office of the Vice Provost for Research in collaboration with Professor Peter Todd and graduate student Samantha Cohen, both in the Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences. The events, funded by OVPR, are part of an ongoing study on the formation of academic partnerships and the best ways to ignite them.