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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Dec. 1 NSF Webinar/Town Hall on "Listening to the Future in the SBE Sciences"


An important message from NSF forwarded from Tom Janoski on SBE 2020: Future Research in the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences [sbe-2020@nsf.gov]

Background:  NSF solicited and received 252 social science proposals about the future of research in the social sciences over the next 10 years, one of which was submitted by Tom. Please peruse the reports in your discipline and think about how we can address the future of social science research at UK.  

The message from NSF about the report and the Dec. 1 Webinar/Town Hall appears below.  

Dear Colleague:

Just a year ago, we stopped accepting SBE 2020 white papers.  The papers were released to the public in February and now we have completed a report, Rebuilding the Mosaic, which briefly describes the process, some of the themes we identified, and the programmatic implications of what we learned.  The report is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020/index.cfm, and we expect to host a webinar/town hall on December 1.  The login details are below.

All of your papers contributed to our thinking about the future of research in the SBE sciences, and we continue to be amazed at and grateful for your participation.  I hope that you will take a moment to read the report – all of the papers are listed in Appendix 5.  For the foreseeable future, we also expect to maintain the website (http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020/index.cfm), where the papers can be individually found and downloaded, since the report cannot substitute for the many ideas that you have shared with us and with the American people.

Although I have written to you before to express my appreciation, one more time, let me say:

Thank you.

Myron Gutmann

Directorate for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences National Science Foundation Details for participating in the webcast:

Date: December 1 at 11 a.m.
Webcast Title: Rebuilding the Mosaic: Listening to the Future in the SBE Sciences

Dial-in phone number:  888-469-1936
Verbal Passcode: Mosaic

Webcast URL:  webcast@nsf.gov<mailto:webcast@nsf.gov> (will be active on Dec. 1.) Webcast username: webcast Webcast password: mosaic (case sensitive)

Topics for 2012 Summer Statistical Workshop!

Please suggest topics for the 2012 Summer Statistcal Workshop! Last May, we organized two very successful 3-day workshops on Spatial Regression Analysis by Paul Voss and Multilevel Modeling (MLM) Using Stata by Brandon Bartels, posted here. Below is a menu of possible topics and speakers. Please add your own ideas!
  • Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental and Observational Studies. Kosuke Imai. See his amazing web-page. 
  • Field Experiments. 1-3 days of morning and computer lab sessions. Don Green and Alan Gerber in Political Science are completing a textbook on field experiments and Green could be induced to give a workshop. 
  • Statistical Graphs (Bill Jacoby, Political Science, MSU). Morning and afternoon sessions, 1-2 days. The focus would be on how to present statistical (e.g., regression) results in graphs instead of tables, in Stata, Excel and R when stat packages are not up to the task.
  • Matching. 
  • Handling Missing Data: Multiple Imputation. (Tenko Raykov, College of Education, MSU). 1-2 days. My preference would be to have the presenter show people how to use Gary King’s Amelia software, which is applicable to time-series and comparative settings. Then the presenter would show people how to combine the multiply imputed datasets in doing analysis in STATA (and SPSS?).