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Professors Colin Allen and Katy Börner Win Grant to Explore 'Big Data' A team of researchers, including principal investigators Professors Colin Allen and Katy Börner, have won a grant to "demonstrate how large-scale data repositories with millions of books can change the nature of research for the humanities and social sciences. Their 'Digging by Debating' project combines the power of 'scientometrics' with the interpretative strategies of the humanities to tackle the particularly challenging issue of understanding the boundary between science and philosophy." Read more in the IU press release.Visiting Undergraduate Research Applications Available The IU Cognitive Science Program invites upper-level undergraduate students not enrolled at IU Bloomington and students who are graduating from colleges other than IU Bloomington to apply to the Cognitive Science Visiting Undergraduate Program. Professor Katy Börner Receives Fellow Distinction from AAAS Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science, School of Library and Information Science, Professor Katy Börner, has been awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science "[f]or pioneering work on network science infrastructure development, the scientific analysis, modeling, and visualization of science itself, and curatorship of the international 'Places & Spaces: Mapping Science' exhibit." See the IU news release. Congratulations Professor Börner!Ph.D. Program Application for Fall 2012 The Cognitive Science Program is currently accepting applications for the Ph.D. program for 2012 fall matriculation. Information about the application procedure is available at Admission to the Cognitive Science Ph.D. Program. Deadline for international applicants is 12/01/11. Deadline for domestic applications is 01/15/12. Deadline to apply for the IGERT Traineeship is 12/31/2011.Professor Katy Börner Wins ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award Congratulations to Professor Katy Börner, winner of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) best Information Science book published in 2010 for her work Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know (MIT). ... MoreProfessor Peter Todd Receives Grant to Fund Seminar on Policy, Food Peter Todd, professor of Cognitive Science, Informatics and Psychology, and Richard Wilk, professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, were awarded a $172,000 grant to support their upcoming seminar on food, “Food Choice, Freedom and Politics”. The grant was awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through its Sawyer Seminars program where only a few universities are asked to even compete for the funding. See the Indiana University Press Release for details.
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News from Recently Graduated Undergraduates
Nicole Beckage is in the Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science at UC-Irvine ... More
Ravi Bhatt, Jim Brink, Stephen Hockema, Jun Luo:
Aji
Tarun Gangwani writes that
the IU cognitive science program let him discover ... More
Kelly Gordon graduated
in 2010 and spent the last year in an accelerated ... More
Jaimie Murdock writes that
since graduating in December 2010, he has accepted ... More
Brian Slattery writes that
after he graduated in 2010, he started working on a Ph.D. in ... More
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