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Briony Swire-Thompson has won a Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) from the NIH National Cancer Institute. The objective of this five year award is to help researchers transition to an independent position.

David Lazer, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences and Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, was interviewed by Bloomberg on the upcoming 2022 midterm elections and how the influence of the former President

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Recent Publications

COVID-19
Publication date: 02/2023
Authors: Matt Motta, Timothy Callaghan, Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Alee Lockman

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have studied how Americans' attitudes toward health...

Publication date: 09/2022
Authors: Alauna Safarpour, Sarah Bush, Jennifer Hadden

Elite surveys are increasingly common in political science, but how best to motivate participation in...

Journal Article
Publication date: 08/2022
Authors: Charles Myers, Kirill Zhirkov, Kristin Lunz Trujillo

We use the case of welfare recipients to validate conjoint experiments as a measure of stereotype...

Journal Article
Publication date: 08/2022
Authors: Jennifer Lin, Kristin Lunz Trujillo

Existing studies on the contemporary U.S. urban-rural divide have neglected its potential role in non-...

Journal Article
Publication date: 08/2022
Authors: Jonathan Green, William Hobbs, Stefan McCabe, David Lazer

Following the 2020 general election, Republican elected officials, including then-President Donald...

OP ED
Publication date: 07/2022
Authors: Matthew A. Baum, Alauna Safarpour, Kristin Lunz Trujillo

Kansans overwhelmingly ...

Journal Article
Publication date: 05/2022
Authors: Robin Bayes, James Druckman, Alauna Safarpour

Scholars have long documented unequal access to the benefits of science among different groups...

OP ED
Publication date: 04/2022
Authors: David Lazer

Millions of Americans are now eligible for a second covid-19 booster shot. By all accounts, efforts to...