Kenneth Lowande Wins Neustadt Award for Best Book on the American Presidency
May 31, 2025
Kenneth Lowande’s book, “False Front,” has won the 2025 Richard E. Neustadt award for best book on the American presidency. More on the APSA award-winning book from Cambridge University Press.
SRC Researchers at the 2025 American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference
May 9, 2025
Here is a list of SRC Researchers at the 2025 American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference in St. Louis, MO. All times are Central Daylight Time.Exhibitors include Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (also a sponsor) in booth 202 and ICPSR in booth 215.Tuesday, May 13, 20252:00-5:00,…
Center for Political Studies Affiliates ‘Sweep’ UM’s Presidential Awards for Understanding Democracy
April 23, 2025
Five faculty-led research projects from across the University of Michigan have received Presidential Awards for Understanding Democracy to enhance understanding of democracy’s operation and promise. Faculty affiliated with the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research took four of the awards, which are part…
U-M federal research funding fuels innovation, economic growth
April 9, 2025
ANN ARBOR—Federal grants awarded to University of Michigan researchers help to drive innovation and economic growth, supporting thousands of jobs and generating millions in research-related spending across the United States. According to the university’s latest research expenditure report, U-M spent more than $332 million last year on goods and services needed…
Pauline Jones Named CASBS Fellow, 2025-26
April 7, 2025
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University has named Pauline Jones among its 2025-26 fellows class, comprising 33 researchers in social and behavioral sciences. A leading incubator of human-centered knowledge, CASBS brings interdisciplinary thinkers together each year to study contemporary societal problems and contribute to…
How do interactions with the police affect communities?
March 20, 2025
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected])ANN ARBOR — Interactions with institutions shape our lives. From banks to universities to countless aspects of every level of government, institutional control and regulation affects how we work, live, and do business.How do we measure these interactions? What effects do they have? Who is held to…
U-M Team Wins Third in Challenge to Improve Data on Youth Suicide
February 27, 2025
ANN ARBOR – UM-ATLAS, a team of University of Michigan faculty and students studying U.S. suicide risk over the lifespan, has won third prize in a recent Driven Data challenge to improve the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), the nation’s most comprehensive registry of suicide mortality.The NVDRS is a…
How can alcohol affect the quality of a marriage?
February 26, 2025
ANN ARBOR — Can having the same drinking habits as your spouse actually improve your marriage?It appears to be possible according to the Institute for Social Research’s Kira Birditt — but exactly how that works and why it works that way are complicated questions that are difficult to decipher.In December…
What does partisan political hostility mean for America?
February 5, 2025
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected])ANN ARBOR — Partisan politics in the United States are nothing new, but the way in which the two major American political parties are hostile to one another could have serious consequences.What do those consequences look like? And how do they play out in the lives of…
Arthur Lupia elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
January 3, 2025
Skip Lupia has been named Chair of the Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This is a well-deserved and major honor. Congratulations, Skip!