With a $49,763 grant from the National Science Foundation, David Slusky, Associate Professor of Economics, will organize a series of conferences on health economics with a focus on Kansas. The inaugural Kansas Health Economics Conference will take place on March 23, 2020, and will gather researchers, students, and members of the wider health economics community. For more on these events, click the link below.
Link(s): https://today.ku.edu/2019/09/03/new-conference-strives-unite-states-health-economics-community-2

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $236,790 grant to the University of Kansas for Donna Ginther, professor of economics and interim director of the Institute for Policy & Social Research, to study the effects of research funding on research outputs. Ginther will collaborate with Joshua Rosenbloom, professor and chair of the Department of Economics at Iowa State University. "The Effect of State Disinvestment in Higher Education on Research Quality and Returns to Scale in Science Funding" was awarded through NSF's Science of Science and Innovation Policy program and also included $313,624 in funding for Iowa State. Read more at the links below.
Link(s): http://news.ku.edu/2019/07/12/professor-will-examine-how-state-cuts-higher-education-affect-research-output
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An interdisciplinary research team led by Hyunjin Seo, University of Kansas associate professor of digital/emerging media, Docking Faculty Scholar in the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications and fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, secured a $1.4 million National Science Foundation grant to connect women post-incarceration to technology education. The project, "Technology Education for Women in Transition: Broadening Participation Through Innovations," will offer evidence-based technology education for women who have been recently released from incarceration. Seo's team includes Hannah Britton, associate professor of political science and women, gender & sexuality studies, Megha Ramaswamy, association professor of population health, Marilyn Ault, director of Advanced Learning Technologies in Education Consortia, and Karin Chang, executive director of Kansas City Area Education Research Consortium. Baek-Young Choi and Sejun Song, associate professors in the School of Computing and Engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, are collaborating with the KU team on this project. Read more about their work at the links below.
Link(s): https://today.ku.edu/2019/07/10/14m-nsf-grant-will-support-technology-education-women-released-prison
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