IBS News

Stefan Leyk, an associate professor of Geography at CU Boulder and IBS Fellow, and his colleagues at IBS, Earth Lab and ASU have found a way to understand how and why the United States formed the way it did with the help of Zillow, the real estate website. Leyk, along with many other IBS researchers, published an article in ScienceAdvances, part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  

Up until now, the spatial distribution and rapid population growth of the U.S. had been puzzling researchers for centuries. However, with the help of Zillow’s dataset-
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Jason Boardman, Director of the Health and Society Program at IBS received the Clifford C. Clogg Award for Mid-Career Achievement through the Population Association of America (PAA). 

Established in 1995, this biennial award originally honored innovative contributions to the design, collection, modeling, or analysis of population survey or census data. Beginning with the 2000 award, the terms were modified to recognize early career achievement in population studies and demography, broadly defined. It honors outstanding innovative scholarly achievements of population professionals who have attained their highest professional degree within the previous 10-20 years.

Congratulations to Jason on this prestigious award.  Please watch
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A little over a month ago, CONVERGE and the Social Science Extreme Events Research Network (SSEER), both part of the Natural Hazards Center that is funded by the National Science Foundation, partnered with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to create the COVID-19 Global Research Registry for Public Health and Social Sciences. The effort seeks to connect researchers worldwide who are studying the social and behavioral impacts of COVID-19 and to log their COVID-19 related projects with the registry.  You can read more about the SSRC's efforts in this newsletter. 

Even though COVID-19 has forced people apart,
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As noted in the CNN article “Forget ‘social distancing,’” the WHO and other health experts would prefer that the term “physical distancing” would be used to describe what we have all been doing, staying home, avoiding large gatherings, six feet distance, etc. The intent is that a move away from the term “social distancing” would highlight that it is still very important to be socially connected, while we also need to be physically distant from each other.

Lori Peek, Director of the Natural Hazards Center here at IBS, was asked to comment on this change, and while she admires the
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