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A Better Way to Vote: Jameson Arnold Quinn at the intersection of statistics and voting theory

November 18, 2019

Check out this article from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences on Jameson Arnold Quinn, a PhD candidate in statistics, who brings together statistics and voting theory in his work.

"Urban building demolitions, firearm violence and drug crime" featured in Newsweek

August 05, 2019

A study by Jonathan Jay, Luke Miratrix, Charles C. Branas, Mark A Zimmerman, and David Hemenway, has been published in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine. The study, entitled "Urban building demolitions, firearm violence, and drug crime", looked at a...

Aaron Kaufman appointed Assistant Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi

May 17, 2019

We are delighted to announce that Aaron Kaufman has signed on to be Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at NYU Abu Dhabi. Aaron will also be an affiliate faculty of the Department of Politics, and the Center for Data Science, at NYU...

Luke Miratrix selected for a 2019 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award

May 07, 2019

The Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Awards, presented by the Graduate Student Council, aim to highlight compassionate, generous mentors who help their graduate advisees thrive at Harvard. Students nominate faculty for the award, and winners are...

Luke Miratrix receives SREE 2019 Early Career Award

March 29, 2019

Luke Miratrix, along with Sharon Wolf ofthe University of Pennsylvania, was awarded the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Early Career Award for 2019. Luke was presented with the award prior to the keynote address at the SREE spring...

Zach Branson appointed Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon

March 27, 2019

In more great career news for the CARES Lab team, Zach Branson has been appointed Assistant Teaching Professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Statistics and Data Science. This sees Zach return to his alma mater where he acquired a BS in...

Reagan Mozer appointed Assistant Professor at Bentley

March 26, 2019

We are delighted to announce that CARES Lab member Reagan Mozer has been appointed Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Bentley University beginning next academic year. Please join us in congratulating Reagan as she takes the next step in what...

"Worth Weighting?" wins 2019 Warren Miller Prize

February 14, 2019

The Warren Miller Prize is awarded by the Society of Political Methodology for the best work appearing in the journal Political Analysis in the preceeding year. We are delighted to announce that "Worth Weighting? How to think about and use weights in...

Graduate Prize Fellowship awarded to Luis Campos

August 24, 2018

Luis Campos has been awarded the Graduate Prize Fellowship to complete his dissertation in his final year. The prize is awarded by Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences to qualified minority Ph.D. students underrepresented in the...

Luis Campos wins "Best Student Paper"

August 02, 2018

Luis Campos 's paper, “Bayesian Model-Assisted Estimation for Functional Data in Survey Sampling”, was awarded "Best Student Paper" by the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association. Luis presented this paper at the 2018 Joint...

Maxime Rischard wins "Best Poster" at BAYSM

July 23, 2018

Maxime won for a fairly amazing poster on his work on geographic regression discontinuity designs. This work is part of a two-paper series looking at how spatial statistics can be coupled with RDD. For our first paper, see A Nonparametric Bayesian...

Luke Miratrix awarded NaED/Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship

May 10, 2018

From the national academy of education website: "The National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports 30 early career scholars working in critical areas of education research. These fellowships support non-residential...