Bernice A. Pescosolido (Awardee 1999) has been appointed to a National Academy of Science Standing Committee, on the "Science of Changing Behavioral Health Social Norms" in March 2015
The newly-established $7 million initiative brings together many of the university’s top minds to explore and embrace the challenge of understanding complex networks that underlie large-scale systems, including the environment, economics, technology and human health. The Institute unites 100+ researchers at Indiana University, building on their world-renowned multidisciplinary expertise toward further scientific understanding of the complex networked systems of our world through pioneering new approaches in mapping, representing, visualizing, modeling, and analyzing diverse complex networks across levels and disciplines.