Month: March 2017

MIT Prof. Berinsky Comes to ECU April 18

The Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science, and the Center for Survey Research present Professor Adam Berinsky of the Massachusetts  Institute of Technology, who will speak about fake news and political rumors on April 18 at East Carolina University. Berinsky is a professor of political science at MIT and serves as the director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab (PERL). He is the author of the book, In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America (Princeton University Press, 2004).

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Dr. Giurcanu awarded GESIS-Leibniz Institute grant to visit EUROLAB in Cologne, Germany

Congratulations to Dr. Magda Giurcanu, who has been recently awarded a GESIS- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences grant to visit the EUROLAB in Cologne, Germany. The grant, which includes €950 for travel and a month of housing, will allow her to spend June 2017 in Cologne accessing European datasets located at the GESIS DATA archive. These new data will contribute to a research project she is currently working on, titled “The Emergence of New Anti-EU Parties in EP Elections: Strategic Elite Calculations and European Union Debates.”