achievements – Networks, Computation, and Social Dynamics

Member Elizabeth Diessner Wins The Edward K.C. Lee Award

April 8, 2025 / achievements

NCASD Member Elizabeth Diessner won the 2024 Edward K.C. Lee Award, one of the top awards given in the UCI Chemistry Department, for her outstanding research accomplishments. This award is usually given to students who “were either unusually productive (e.g., they published a number of first-author papers) or did research resulting in significant scientific breakthroughs […]

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NCASD Bids Graduating Members Peng Huang, Liz Diessner, Richard Gardner Farewell

May 30, 2024 / achievements

NCASD bids a farewell to three of our graduating lab members, Dr. Peng Huang, Dr. Elizabeth Diessner and (soon to be) Dr. Richard Gardner. Dr. Huang will be starting his position as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia this fall and Dr. Diessner will be joining the interdisciplinary Narang Lab at

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Member Scott L. Renshaw Accepts Post-Doc at CMU

August 18, 2022 / achievements

Scott L. Renshaw has accepted a Post-Doctoral Associate research position at the Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University. He will be working with Professor Kathleen Carley in the Center for Informed Democracy & Social Cybersecurity, CMU’s center for disinformation, hate speech, and extremism online. Congratulation, Scott!

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Alumni Chris Marcum Named Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America

July 31, 2022 / achievements, alumni

Dr. Christopher Steven Marcum, Assistant Director for Open Science and Data Policy at the White House of Science and Technology Policy and alumni of NCASD, has been named a fellow with the Gerontological Society of America. Congratulations, Chris!

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Lab member Peng Huang awarded prestigious Mathematical Sociology’s Geoffrey Tootell Mathematical Sociology Outstanding Dissertation-in-Progress Award

July 31, 2022 / achievements, alumni

Congratulation to current lab member Peng Huang, who has been awarded The Section on Mathematical Sociology’s Geoffrey Tootell Mathematical Sociology Outstanding Dissertation-in-Progress Award! From the American Sociological Association Mathematical Sociologist Newsletter (Summer 2022 Vol. 26 No. 1): “Huang demonstrates a strong and promising record as a junior researcher in the field of mathematical sociology. The

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Alumni Zack Almquist Honored with NSF Career Award

May 5, 2022 / achievements, alumni

Zack Almquist, UCI Alumni and assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington, has been honored with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project entitled, “CAREER: Measuring and Modeling the Multi-Modal Networks and Demographics of People Experiencing Homelessness”. The CAREER award is

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Alumni Zack Almquist appointed as Editor-in-Chief for JMS

February 1, 2022 / achievements, alumni

Congratulations to NCASD alumni Zack Almquist for his appointment as Editor-In-Chief for the Journal of Mathematical Sociology published by Taylor and Francis. He will begin supporting the Mathematical Sociology community starting in February 2022.

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