The Treehouse Foundation and the UMass Rudd Adoption Research Program are joining forces in partnership with the Boston College School of Social Work to present the 2016 conference "New Worlds of Adoption and Foster Care: Thriving on the Frontline." The day will feature useful and exciting perspectives shared by practitioners, researchers, those who have been adopted, those who have experienced foster care, their family members, and policymakers. For additional information, visit the Rudd Program's conference website.
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research would like to announce the Dr. Eugene Owen Scholarship for Research on the International Assessment of Student Achievement.
The Institute for Social Science Research has an opening for an IT support person. This position entails maintaining lab computers and providing general support to the Institute, with the following requirements:
On January 28, student, staff and faculty from across UMass gathered to reflect on the changing expectations and implications they face in regard to data management--exploring the tensions and opportunities embedded in competing calls for transparency and confidentiality in social science research.
Janet Vertesi, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, explored the deeply social nature of scientific knowledge in her lively January 27 talk"Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars."