With a million, or so, images captured every day, David Biron’s research group at the University of Chicago was experiencing a computational bottleneck in its overall workflow. After turning to the University’s new Research Computing Center (RCC) for assistance, however, the group’s work is flowing at record speed.
Research indicates that social resilience—the capacity to foster, engage in and sustain positive social relationships and to endure and recover from stress—is vital for soldiers to function well in combat and to recover from its effects, whether the soldiers remain in military service or not.
When drug companies want to determine whether a new therapeutic agent works they test it against a placebo in a controlled, double-blind, randomized clinical trial. The University of Chicago Crime Lab partners with government agencies to test innovative social interventions in a similar way.
New economic models are needed to better understand policies designed to prevent systemic risk. To meet that need, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has given the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics $1 million to help develop the next generation of policy tools that explicitly address links between the macroeconomy and the financial sector.