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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. In celebration of the University of Chicago's 125th anniversary, this event will feature Professor and Director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy Ariel Kalil and Professor and former Harris Dean Susan Mayer. Kalil and Mayer co-direct the Behavioral Insights and Parenting (BIP) Lab at Chicago Harris, which applies behavioral science tools to support parental engagement in low-income families. They will speak about their innovative research at the BIP Lab and their efforts to advance knowledge for improving the lives of children around the world.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. In celebration of the University of Chicago's 125th anniversary, this event will feature Professor and Director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy Ariel Kalil and Professor and former Harris Dean Susan Mayer. Kalil and Mayer co-direct the Behavioral Insights and Parenting (BIP) Lab at Chicago Harris, which applies behavioral science tools to support parental engagement in low-income families. They will speak about their innovative research at the BIP Lab and their efforts to advance knowledge for improving the lives of children around the world.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Earlier this year, the University of Chicago Alumni Association recognized Chicago Harris alumnus Sandeep Ahuja, MPP’06, for his efforts to address the global pandemic of tuberculosis. Ahuja cofounded Operation ASHA, a nonprofit that provides services to more than 6 million people. OpASHA, which uses methods involving community-based centers and innovative tracking of patients, was named a model program by the Stop TB Partnership, a World Health Organization affiliate.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. More than half of the world’s population lives in urban centers. How do we create policies and programs that improve the lives of residents and optimize the operation of cities? This panel from across campus explores the power of data to inform urban policy decisions, how new modeling and computational methods can improve urban decision making, and examples of data being used to support effective programs. Panel Participants: Colm O'Muircheartaigh Dean and Professor, Chicago Harris; Senior Fellow, NORC Charlie Catlett Director, Urban Center for Computation and Data; Senior Fellow, Computation Institute; Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory Stephen W. Raudenbush Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Sociology, Chicago Harris, and the College; Chair, Committee on Education
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. More than half of the world’s population lives in urban centers. How do we create policies and programs that improve the lives of residents and optimize the operation of cities? This panel from across campus explores the power of data to inform urban policy decisions, how new modeling and computational methods can improve urban decision making, and examples of data being used to support effective programs. Panel Participants: Colm O'Muircheartaigh Dean and Professor, Chicago Harris; Senior Fellow, NORC Charlie Catlett Director, Urban Center for Computation and Data; Senior Fellow, Computation Institute; Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory Stephen W. Raudenbush Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Sociology, Chicago Harris, and the College; Chair, Committee on Education
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Chicago Harris professor and deputy dean Ethan Bueno de Mesquita speaks about political violence. Bueno de Mesquita is an applied game theorist whose research focuses on asymmetric conflict, including terrorism, insurgency, and rebellion. He talks about what an exciting new wave of social scientific research has to teach us about understanding and creatively addressing critical global security challenges, including counterterrorism and counterinsurgency.