DataLab faculty member Joshua Blumenstock was one of nine faculty members selected by Intel to receive an Early Career Faculty Award.  The award recognizes exceptional potential in junior faculty members, and includes a $40,000 gift to support ongoing and future research.  Full press release here.

In Autumn 2013, the DataLab will add two new core faculty members, Emma Spiro and Jevin West.  Emma will help lead the Social Behavior initiative, and Jevin will help make Network Analysis an area of focus.

We would like to express our gratitude to Innovations for Poverty Action for supporting our work in Afghanistan

Emma Spiro will talk about social media and social theory at the Microsoft Faculty Summit in Seattle.

Jevin West will talk about Innovation in Science at the Microsoft Faculty Summit in Seattle.

Joshua Blumenstock will talk about segregation in Estonia at the Microsoft Faculty Summit in Seattle.