Weidenbaum Center small grants awards are typically under $15,000 and funding is provided for up to one year. Awards are given for research that focuses on social science and/or public policy.
Faculty and university leadership selected Merve Ileri-Tayar, a doctoral student in psychological and brain sciences, as the winner of the 2025 Dean’s Award for Graduate Research Excellence. Four additional graduate students were also recognized.
The article looks at the Supreme Court's latest consideration of a portion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and what research shows the effect may be on American's rights.
The conference brought together experts in elections, political science, and AI from across the country.
The article looks at data on every member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 91st to the 117th Congress (1969 to 2023), and finds that CBC members tend to enter Congress later – and stay longer than their colleagues.
The paper, Ribar's job market paper, focuses on the impact of local politics and national land regimes on titles for agricultural land in Africa.
The article, published in Political Science Research and Methods, contributes to the growing literature advocating for transparency and rigor in applying machine learning methods within computational social sciences.
The article looks at how the public perceives digital political ads and how policymakers and social platforms can work to regulate such ads.
The article, part of his PhD dissertation, looks at why formal land titles are so rare in sub-Saharan Africa.
The project looks to create a first of its kind database of US governor State of the State addresses.