Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

The Tuesday after spring break, students from Purdue University’s Computational Social Science Lab eagerly gathered in the Joe and Maggie Kernan Social Science Research Lab on Beering Hall’s second ...

AI—or artificial intelligence—is often used as a way to summarize data and improve writing. But AI tools also represent a powerful and efficient way to analyze large amounts of text to search for ...

A researcher has created a chatbot that is indistinguishable from human participants in online surveys. Some researchers fear ...

The global landscape for Social Sciences in 2026 continues to be dominated by a prestigious group of institutions across the United States and the United Kingdom. Leading the charge is the ...

The Asia-Pacific is characterized by a singularly rapid pace of development. According to the World Economic Forum, the economy of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is the fifth ...

Durham youths live every day of their lives dealing with economic, social, health, racial and judicial issues that shape their communities. If they want to gain experience studying those issues in ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called UChicago Class Visits, spotlighting transformative classroom experiences and unique learning opportunities offered at UChicago. A career advancement ...

Growing up multiracial in the 1990s, Gabriel "Joey" Merrin regularly encountered demographic forms that forced an impossible choice: Pick one box. Deny the others. "That act of being forced to choose, ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University’s Social Science Research Center celebrated its 75th anniversary Thursday [Nov. 6], recognizing decades of influential research locally, nationally and ...

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