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Former IBS Research Assistant receives APSA’s Leonard D.White Award

June 20, 2017

Former IBS Reserach Associate in the Environment & Society Program, Alan Zarychta, is the recipient of the American Political Science Association's 2017 Leonard D. White Award which is awarded annually for the best dissertation successfully defended during the previous two years in the field of public administration. The award committee included Zachary Oberfield (Haverford College), chair, Mary

PhD candidate studies fertility, maternal health in Tanzania

June 12, 2017

Researcher uses quantitative data to examine external factors affecting fertility trends

Hazards Center Research Associate Receives Research Scholar Fulbright Award

June 9, 2017

Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Ph.D., a research associate at the Natural Hazards Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, CU-Boulder, has been selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board as a recipient of a Research Scholar Fulbright Award in Malaysia August 2017-June 2018.

Baker, Schaffer Win Inaugural Seligson Prize from LAPOP for Paper

April 24, 2017

A paper entitiled "Clientelism as Persuasion-Buuying: Evidence from Latin America" which was co-authored by Andy Baker and Joby Schaffer has won the Seligson Prize from the Latin American Public Opinion Project. The Seligson Prize was founded to recognize excellence in Latin American scholarship, and was named in honor of Mitchell Seligson, the founder of LAPOP and a

Anand Sokhey Article Featured in Washington Post

April 24, 2017

An article co-authored by IBS faculty member Anand Sokhey was featured recently in the Washington Post blog, the Monkey Cage. The article is entitlted "How fights over Trump have led evangelicals to leave their churches" and it can be found in it's entirety here. Here is an excerpt from the article: The 2016 presidential contest highlighted

David Pyrooz Research Featured in NYT Piece “Deconstructing the Ferguson Effect”

April 21, 2017

This is an exerpt from a New York Times article. A link to the full article can be found at the end. Deconstructing the 'Ferguson Effect" By Shaila Dewan It was a narrative that resonated with law-and-order advocates after the long August of 2014, when unrest followed the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in

IBS Director Myron Gutmann Presents COSSA Distinguished Service Award

April 7, 2017

During the 2017 Consortion of Social Science Associations Science (COSSA) Policy Conference & Social Science Advocacy Day, held in Washington D.C. on March 29th-30th, IBS Director Myron Gutmann presented Colorado Senator Cory Gardner with the Distinguished Service Award. According to COSSA, this award “recognizes leaders who have gone above and beyond to promote, protect, and advance the social and behavioral science

$3 Million Grant Awarded for Development of Trauma Responsive Schools

April 1, 2017

The Center for Resilience and Wellbeing in Schools at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Institute of Behavioral Science was launched October 1, 2017 with a five-year $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration as a part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. The

Larger disasters ‘inevitable,’ says new Natural Hazards Center director

March 21, 2017

The following is an exerpt from an article originally published in CU Boulder Today. A link to the full article can be found at the bottom of the page. By: Lisa Marshall In the days following 9/11, frightened college students across the country gathered around TVs to get a sense of what was happening in

Oxford University Press Releases New Book by Stefanie Mollborn