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Upcoming Events

Browse upcoming events below or learn more about the different types of events that IPR hosts. To notified about upcoming events by email, subscribeYou can also view a complete list of our upcoming events hereTo watch previous events, go to our YouTube channel.

March 27, 2024

IPR Spring 2024 Distinguished Lecture: Governing the Future: On AI, Public Policy, and Democracy

Alondra NelsonHarold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

April 1, 2024 - April 1, 2024

How Can You Advance Your Research with Data Science and AI Support?

By Christina Maimone, Northwestern Research Computing and Data Services

How can you advance your research with data science and AI support? Northwestern IT Research Computing and Data Services provides a range of resources, services, and specialized staff who will work with you to address challenges throughout the research process--from project planning and data collection, to analysis and visualization, to data sharing and archiving.  Areas of support include expertise in data science, statistics, visualization, AI, data management, data workflows, and data analysis, as well as high-performance and high-memory computing resources, data storage, research software, and secure data environments.  This session will discuss recent expansions in support services and staff, and opportunities for research collaborations.

April 8, 2024

Can Paid Family Leave Prevent Future Epidemics of Obesity and Chronic Inflammation?

Thomas McDade, Carlos Montezuma Professor of Anthropology, IPR Fellow, and Director of IPR's Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Inequalities and Health

April 15, 2024

Who Governs the Association?

Brian Libgober, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law and IPR Fellow

April 29, 2024

Self, Peer, and Teacher Perceptions Under School Tracking

Ofer Malamud, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow

May 6, 2024

Mules: The Punishment and Political Labor of Black Women

Sally Nuamah, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow

May 20, 2024

Insights about Social Movement Tactics and Influence

Brayden King, Max McGraw Chair of Management and the Environment, Professor of Management and Organizations, and IPR Associate

July 8, 2024 - July 12, 2024

Improving Evaluations of R&D in STEM Education 2024 Summer Institute

Northwestern University, with support from the National Science Foundation is providing support for the 2024 Summer Research Training Institute on Improving Evaluations of Research and Development projects in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education.

July 15, 2024 - July 25, 2024

Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials

Faculty Organizers: Larry Hedges and Elizabeth Tipton

This two-week, in-depth training institute covers a range of specific topics in the design, implementation, and analysis of data for use in cluster-randomized trials, allowing researchers to account for the group effects of teachers and classrooms when measuring an intervention’s effects on individual student achievement. Support comes from the National Center for Education Research, housed in the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.