{"590150":{"#nid":"590150","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computational Social Science at UChicago","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EComputational Social Science is an emergent approach in which students apply the latest innovations in computer science and statistics to complex social questions.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWorking with very big data, on a scale that far exceeds earlier research, computational researchers are devising innovative formal, statistical, and computational models to make important contributions across the social sciences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EThe deadline is April 30th.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;UChicago is\u0026nbsp;training their\u0026nbsp;students for elite-level PhD admission in Sociology, Economics, Political Science, Psychology, History, and Anthropology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ENearly all students admitted will receive a half-tuition grant in the first year, and a two-thirds tuition grant in the second.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUChicago also furnishes extraordinary support for professional placement, with paid internships between the first and second year, on-campus recruitment from prominent firms, and three years of work eligibility for international students as a recognized STEM program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EStudents can learn more about the\u0026nbsp;program, and find a link to apply, at\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/macss.uchicago.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehttp:\/\/macss.uchicago.edu\/\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGRE scores can be submitted after April 30th, for students who do not have them in hand.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPlease don\u0026rsquo;t hesitate to contact us with questions. Chad Cyrenne, our Managing Director, can be reached at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:c-cyrenne@uchicago.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ec-cyrenne@uchicago.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The University of Chicago is pioneering a new MA program in Computational Social Science."}],"uid":"33693","created_gmt":"2017-04-10 19:25:40","changed_gmt":"2017-04-10 19:25:40","author":"Kayleigh Haskin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"590149":{"id":"590149","type":"image","title":"UChicago CSS","body":null,"created":"1491852320","gmt_created":"2017-04-10 19:25:20","changed":"1491852320","gmt_changed":"2017-04-10 19:25:20","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224828","name":"Screen Shot 2017-04-10 at 3.24.10 PM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202017-04-10%20at%203.24.10%20PM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202017-04-10%20at%203.24.10%20PM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":43849,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202017-04-10%20at%203.24.10%20PM.png?itok=78SLD1rH"}}},"media_ids":["590149"],"groups":[{"id":"473211","name":"_OLD: School of History and Sociology Student Blog"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166849","name":"HSOC Blog"},{"id":"168328","name":"grad school"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}