Research

Grants Awarded

Faculty members of The Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) are currently conducting research in the following areas funded by the corresponding agencies:

Integrated Rapid Test Platforms Appropriate for the Developing World
Daniel Diermeier & David Kelso, funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Social Enterprise
Daniel Diermeier, funded by The 3M Foundation

Beacon Civic Leadership Initiative
Daniel Diermeier, funded by Alan M. and Sherry M. Leventhal

Fundamentals of Complexity Science: Modeling the Temporal Dynamics of Social, Economic, and Communication Networks from Large-Scale Empirical Datasets
Brian Uzzi, Felix Reed-Tsochas and Neil Johnson, funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Exploring Educational Policy and Change from a Complex Systems Perspective
Uri Wilensky, funded by NSF

Principles of White Collar Workforce Management
Wally Hopp, funded by NSF

Integrated Product & Supply Chain Design
Wally Hopp, funded by NSF

Digital Promise or Digital Peril? Adolescents’ Internet Uses
Eszter Hargittai, funded by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Integrating Diverse Data to Explore Adolescents’ Information Technology Uses
Eszter Hargittai, funded by NSF

Collaborative Research: A Design Methodology for Operational Flexibility
Seyed Iravani, funded by NSF

Integrative Approach to Characterizing Gene Regulation
Luis Amaral, funded by NIH

Analytical/Computational Methods for Rare Events in Lightwave Systems
William Kath, funded by NSF

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