• The study "Capturing context: Integrating spatial and social network analyses," made possible thorugh a Columbia H&SS Seed Grant was featured in the January 2012 Special Issue of Social Networks.
  
  
• Click here to download the Spring 2012 Issue of "Health and Society News."
  
  
• The Los Angeles Times features Columbia Health & Society Scholars Co-Director Peter Bearman's autism research.
  
  
• Columbia University welcomes Ryan Masters and Yi-Ching Ong as members of Health & Society Scholars cohort
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Recent conferences from program scholars and faculty:

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Disciplinary Perspectives on Gene-Environment Interactions: Economics, Sociology, and Political Science (May 9, 2012)

Agent-Based Modeling with NetLogo: An Introduction, Free Two-Day Short course, click on the link to learn more and register

RECENT EVENTS:

Causation in the Social Sciences: Portrait of a Good Idea Gone Bad, a talk by Herbert L. Smith (January 17, 2012)

New Approaches to Child Development and Risky Behavior Research: Gene-Environment Interactions and Epigenetics, a conference hosted by the RWJ Gene-Environment Working Group (January 30, 2012)