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Glamour Magazine profiles CREWS Grant collaborator Suzanne Bell and a number of other female professionals contributing to NASA’s upcoming Mars Mission in the article “Would You Go to Mars? Meet the Four Women Astronauts Who Can’t Wait to Go”. Read the full article here: http://www.glamour.com/inspired/2016/01/nasa-women-astronauts-first-trip-to-mars… Read the rest

Lab Director Noshir Contractor presented his lecture “Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 21st Century” on Oct. 26, 2015 for the Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Team Science Talks at the University of Florida. His talk illustrated how comprehensive digital trace data provide an unprecedented exploratorium to model the socio-technical motivations for creating, maintaining, dissolving, and reconstituting into teams – arguing that Network Science is foundational in advancing our understanding of effective team emergence and that these insights are building a new generation of recommender systems that leverage our research insights on the socio-technical motivations for creating ties.… Read the rest

Lab Director Noshir Contractor presented a Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences & Humanities on September 24th, 2015 at Syracuse University. His talk, entitled “Leveraging Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges” argues that computational social science is the foundation on which to unleash intellectual insights locked in big data, illustrating how these insights offer scientists and scholars an unprecedented opportunity to engage more actively in monitoring, anticipating, and designing interventions to address grand societal challenges.… Read the rest

Noshir Contractor was featured on School of Comm’s “Creative Buzz” after leading an all-day workshop with the entire cohort of MSLCE students on November 14th. Master’s student, Zach Hyman, remarked, “For us MSLCE students, who come from a variety of different educations and locations around the world, Professor Contractor’s lessons rang true.”

Full article available here: http://comm.soc.northwestern.edu/mslce-blog/2015/11/24/network-expert-teaches-mslce-students-about-social-connections/… Read the rest