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Visiting Fellow Martina Viarengo Examines Migration Impact on Education

By Ann Starkey, July 1 2009

In "American education in the age of mass migrations 1870–1930," IQSS Visiting Fellow Martina Viarengo and coauthor Fabrice Murtin examine the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. Viarengo and Murtin examine migrant flow, population construction, and educational attainment for the impact attributable to mass migration.

Open Research Positions with the Women's Studies in Religion Program

By Emily Ware, June 30 2009

Harvard Divinity School announces five full-time positions as Research Associate and Visiting Faculty for 2010-11 in its Women’s Studies in Religion Program. Proposals should utilize both religion and gender as central categories of analysis and may use disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches from across the fields of theology, the humanities, and the social sciences.

Sidney Verba Receives Honorary Degree

By Emily Ware, June 15 2009

On June 4, Professor Sidney Verba was one of ten outstanding individuals to receive an honorary degree at Harvard’s 2009 Commencement ceremonies. The degree--Doctor of Laws--is a tribute to Verba’s lengthy and notable career, during which he distinguished himself both as a political scientist and as director of the Harvard University library system.

Change of Leadership at the Program for Survey Research

By Ann Starkey, June 12 2009

IQSS announced a change of leadership at the Program for Survey Research (PSR) in early June. Sunshine Hillygus, the founding director of the program, has accepted a faculty position at Duke University in the fall. Peter Marsden has agreed to serve as the next director.

Hillygus Wins APSA Book Award

By Ann Starkey, June 12 2009

A recent publication by Sunshine Hillygus, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government and IQSS faculty associate, received a 2009 best book award from the American Political Science Association (APSA).

President of GESIS, Hans Rattinger, Visits Dataverse Network Project

By Ann Starkey, June 4 2009

Dr. Hans Rattinger, president of GESIS, visited the IQSS last Friday and met with members of the IQSS to discuss developments on the Dataverse Network® Project. Dr. Rattinger is reviewing the status of existing technology in use at GESIS and assessing the viability of the Dataverse Network application to fulfill their objectives.

Urban or Rural Life? IQSS Post-Doctoral Fellow Examines the Age Old Question

By Jamaica Baldwin, May 28 2009

Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn, currently a post-doctoral fellow at IQSS and HMDC affiliate, co-wrote Dissatisfaction with city life: A new look at some old questions. The article examines dissatisfaction levels among rural and urban inhabitants.

Call for Papers for Engaging Data: First International Forum

By Jamaica Baldwin, May 14 2009

Engaging Data: First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now is accepting papers for the conference taking place on October 12th and 13th, 2009.

Katherine Gallagher Selected as Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow

By Emily Ware, May 12 2009

Katherine Gallagher, a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan and a visiting fellow at IQSS for Spring 2009, was selected earlier this month as one of seven 2009 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellows in Women's Studies.

Four Genes Show Correlation to Alzheimer's

By Emily Ware, May 7 2009

Christoph Lange, currently a visiting scholar at IQSS, was the co-lead author of "Genome-wide Association Analysis Reveals Putative Alzheimer's Disease Susceptibility Loci in Addition to APOE," a study which identified four genes correlated to late-onset Alzheimer's disease.