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New research grants announced

September 1, 2007

We are pleased to announce the receipt of the following new grants and awards by our faculty and graduate students:

Christopher Zorn, "Decision Making in the Federal Judicial Hierarchy," National Science Foundation.  

Christopher Zorn and Brian Habing, "Item Response Theory Models for Mixtures of Dominance and Proximity Items," National Science Foundation.

Glenn Palmer, Scott Bennett, Paul Diehl, and Phil Schrodt,  “Improving the Efficiency of Militarized Interstate Dispute Data Collection using Automated Textual Analysis,” National Science Foundation.

Suzanna Linn and Janet Box-Steffensmeier, “Conditional Frailty Duration Model for the Study of Repeated Events in the Social Sciences, “ National Science Foundation,

Frank Baumgartner andJohn McCarthy, “New Computer Science Applications in Automated Text Identification and Classification for the Social Sciences,” National Science Foundation,
Graduate Student Dissertation Awards:

Kyle Joyce, “Computational Modeling of War Expansion,” National Science Foundation

Phil Arena, “In It to Win It? Domestic Politics and Long Term Resolve in International Crises,” National Science Foundation.


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