•3 faculty members hired: Mark Handcock,
Peter Hoff, Kevin Quinn; plus Martina Morris hired as core CSSS
faculty
•New office suite remodeled and occupied in
Padelford Hall
•A vibrant seminar series established.
About 80 seminars have been given, with a highly interdisciplinary audience
averaging about 35.
•Seed grant program: 13 grants awarded. 4
have already led to funded grants, which other proposals pending
(highly significant in the social sciences)
•Over $5 million in external research
grants awarded
•An active interdisciplinary working paper
series established, with thousands of downloads recorded on the Web.
•Intellectual themes: Social networks,
Causal inference, Inference for deterministic models, Spatial statistics
in social science