News Archive

Scott Page on Teach.gov

Teachers influence lives, now and into the future. As a teacher, you have the unique ability to promote opportunity for all children. You can reduce inequality in the classroom. Making a positive impact on just one child can spill over into that child's school and community, now and into the future. Watch CSCS Director, Scott Page, talk about teacher influence for teach.gov.

Carl Simon Named to NIH Panel

Carl Simon has been named to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) panel charged with studying the origins of health disparities using a complex systems approach. The 20-member panel, called the Network on Inequality, Complexity and Health has representatives from the health and medical fields, public policy, sociology and computer science. The Network is administered by the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH) in the School of Public Health. CSCS is working with CSEPH to develop computational models of health disparities. More information about the project can be found here.

CSCS Director Testifies Before Congress

On July 20, 2010, CSCS Director Scott Page testified before the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight. His topic was Building a Science of Economics for the Real World. The transcript of his testimony can be found here.

New Book on Networks

Mark Newman, a CSCS faculty member, has written a new book called "Networks: An Introduction" recently published by Oxford University Press. More information is at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/networks-an-introduction/

CSCS Director Interviewed by NASA

In June 2010, Scott Page was interviewed by Ask the Academy, a monthly e-newsletter published by NASA's Academy of Program/Project Engineering and Leadership (APPEL). The interview can be found here.