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Jimi Adams Gives a Talk at University of Florida Informatics Institute

“A Multi-level Life Course Model of Boundaries in Knowledge Production”

Projects spanning multiple disciplines (e.g., interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary research) have been examined and evaluated in ways that are substantially under‐theorized. We propose a dynamic model of how disciplinary boundaries are constructed, maintained and crossed, as a means to identify how research fields change as they develop. This model offers three improvements over previous research on disciplinarity by: (1) explicitly identifying the dimensions along which disciplinary integration takes place; (2) accounting for temporal dynamics in the evolution of research fields across those dimensions by adopting a life course perspective of change; and (3) resolving tensions in previous models by accounting for disciplinary (lack of) integration that varies across multiple levels. To empirically investigate this model, we employ a combination of bibliographic coupling networks and topic models of scientific abstracts. We identify observed trajectories within the model from research on demography, religion and HIV/AIDS. These examples demonstrate how the proposed model advances both our understanding of interdisciplinary dynamics, and the ability to evaluate their successes.

– https://www.ctsi.ufl.edu/2015/10/20/ctsi-team-science-talks-oct-26-and-27/

New Director for Computing and Research Services

Jim Dykes is the new Director of Computing and Research Services (CRS) at IBS. Jim was Senior Director of Engineering at Seagate Technology; prior to joining Seagate, he held a variety of positions at Dartmouth College, including jobs as Director of Informatics at the Dartmouth Medical School and Director of Data Analysis in the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences. Jim has a background in statistics and computer science that will help take IBS to new successes.

Jim succeeds Jani Little, who has retired as head of CRS but continues with her research and with development of our proposed Federal Statistical Research Data Center.

New Faces at IBS

  • • Joel Colvin – Administrative Officer
  • • David Pyrooz – Problem Behavior, Sociology Department faculty
  • • Jessica Green – CSPV Dissemination of LifeSkills project
  • • Nicole Pasminski – CSPV Dissemination of LifeSkills project
  • • Brittany Weeks – CSPV Dissemination of LifeSkills project

Congratulations on New Jobs!

  • • Laurie Hawkins – postdoc, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory
  • • Liz Lawrence – postdoc, Carolina Population Center, UNC
  • • Gisella Kagy – Assistant Professor of Economics, Vassar College
  • • Ben Domingue – Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Upcoming Book Publications

  • • Dick Jessor – Contract with Springer for 3 volume collected works
  • • Kathleen Tierney – Book and review in Science
  • • Mike Radelet – new book The Death Penalty in Colorado, 1859-2015
  • • Andrei Rogers – Book on Multistate Analysis

New and Renewed Grants

  • • Liesel Ritchie (2!)
  • • Fernando Riosmena
  • • Rick Rogers
  • • Terry McCabe
  • • Courtney Welton-Mitchel
  • • Bruce Goldstein
  • • David Pyrooz
  • • Kathleen Tierney
  • • Fred Pampel – Renewal of CUPC Grant
  • • Kathleen Tierney – Renewal of the Hazards Center grant

Kudos — Fellowships and Student Grants

NSF GRFP :

  • • Last year: 9 students completed the workshop and 4 received awards, including Bethany Riggles and Michael Burdis
  • • This year: FIFTY are signed up for it!

Nnenia Campbell was awarded an ASA Minority Fellowship and Federal Alliance for Same Homes Social Science Scholarship

Jamie Vickery – Graduate Education Diversity Intern