NULab Co-Director David Lazer Receives 2020 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
September 18, 2020NULab co-director David Lazer, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, was recently awarded the 2020 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize from the editorial ...
Read more...NULab Core Faculty Member Brooke Foucault Welles Awarded Social Science Research Council Fellowship
September 17, 2020NULab core faculty member Brooke Foucault Welles, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, was recently awarded a Social Data Research Fellowship grant from ...
Read more...NULab Faculty, Staff, and Students Interviewed In New Article in Digital Humanities Quarterly
August 30, 2020NULab core faculty Ryan Cordell (associate professor of English), NULab assistant director Sarah Connell, and NULab alum Caroline Klibanoff (a DH certificate recipient who created ...
Read more...Digital Integration Teaching Initiative Featured in News@Northeastern
August 19, 2020Reposted from News @ Northeastern by Irvin Zhang and Kaitlyn Budion The Cacodemon Shakespeare Project is a lot more than just an online copy of William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” Within each ...
Read more...NULab Co-Director David Lazer Co-Authors Latest COVID-19 Survey, Finds Racial Justice Protests Did Not Drive Spike In Infection Rates
August 11, 2020Reposted from News @ Northeastern by Peter Ramjug The racial justice protests earlier this summer were not the driving force behind a spike in U.S. COVID-19 infections ...
Read more...NULab Co-Director David Lazer Co-Authors New National COVID Survey: Only 66% Will Seek A Vaccine
August 7, 2020Reposted from News@Northeastern by Peter Ramjug If a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, as promising reports suggest could be the case by winter, 66 percent of U.S. residents say they will ...
Read more...NULab Core Faculty Member Ryan Cordell Publishes Machine Learning Report with Library of Congress
July 23, 2020The Library of Congress announced on July 22 its release of a new report by NULab core faculty Ryan Cordell, Associate Professor of English at ...
Read more...NULab Faculty In July’s News
July 17, 2020The research and public engagement of NULab faculty members has been spotlighted by multiple news outlets this month. Here is a roundup of the latest ...
Read more...NULab Co-Director David Lazer Finds “Systemic Decline” In Approval For State Governors and Trump
July 17, 2020Reposted from News@Northeastern by Khalida Sarwari Public approval of state governors and President Donald Trump over their response to the COVID-19 crisis has dropped over the last ...
Read more...NULab Core Faculty Member Alicia Sasser Modestino Responds to May Unemployment Data
June 19, 2020NULab core faculty Alicia Sasser Modestino, associate director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, was recently quoted by the ...
Read more...“Hashtag Activism” Featured In News@Northeastern’s Recommended Reading
June 13, 2020As part of its list of recommendations for “What to Read, Listen To, and Watch to Better Understand Racism Against Black People In The US,” ...
Read more...NULab Core Faculty Member Meg Heckman Releases New Book
June 1, 2020Potomac Books, an imprint of University of Nebraska Press, has just published the latest book by NULab core faculty member Meg Heckman, an Assistant Professor ...
Read more...NULab Core Faculty Moya Bailey and Brooke Foucault Welles Win ICA Award for “#Hashtag Activism”
May 28, 2020Congratulations to NULab core faculty members Moya Bailey, Assistant Professor of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Brooke Foucault ...
Read more...New Tier 1 Grants Awarded to NULab Faculty for 2020-21
May 21, 2020We are pleased to announce that for fiscal year 2021, multiple NULab core faculty members, including interim co-director Julia Flanders, were awarded competitive TIER 1 ...
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If it Bleeds, it Leads: Disaster Information Dissemination and Media Usage
When disasters strike, media responses serve multiple functions. Media can focus the general public’s attention on a disruptive event, disseminate potentially lifesaving information to those Continue Reading »
Day of DH 2020: Snapshots of our daily lives
Day of DH 2020 was organized by CenterNet as a way to encourage digital humanists “to communicate what they do on Twitter, what they are Continue Reading »
Tackling 3D Modelling in the context of “Visualizing Colonial Philadelphia”
Courtesy of the Geography and Maps Division, Library of Congress By Molly Nebiolo, PhD Candidate, History 3D modelling as a digital humanities tool has Continue Reading »
Data Feminism with Visiting Speaker Catherine D’Ignazio
Catherine D’Ignazio presented on Data Feminism, the new book she co-authored with Lauren Klein, on Wednesday, March 11th in Snell Library. D’Ignazio’s talk was Continue Reading »