Category: Events

• July 11, 2023

  COVID & Rural America: Assets & Challenges

  This community event was the third in a series of workshops co-sponsored by the US COVID Atlas, a project of the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (HEROP). The workshops aim to connect with communities disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic, share resources, and discuss how to effectively translate data into action. As such, our third…
• February 28, 2022

  Big Data, Government Policy and Defeating COVID

  This month, Dr. Kolak of HEROP connected with leading scholars to discuss how data can be used to inform policy to defeat COVID, the emerging wave in Hong Kong, what happened in the US via the Covid Atlas, & brainstorming international, evidence-based cooperations to combat pandemics. More information about the talk can be found at…
• October 21, 2021

  October Seminar & Journal Club on Neighborhood Change

  The Healthy Regions & Policies Lab & the Center for Spatial Data Science Invites You: Sequence Methods in the Study of Neighborhood Change Wei Kang, PhD University of California, Riverside Inland Center for Sustainable Development Tuesday, October 26th Invited Talk October 26th @9:00 CST (Register Here) There is a recent surge in research focused on…
• March 8, 2021

  Geographic Data Science Lab Brown Bag

  The Geographic Data Science Lab at the University of Liverpool invited the HeRoP Lab to talk about their work on integrating geographic data science thinking into public health policy & practice. If you missed the presentation live, you can now catch the rerun at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcHwPNd-nck. Integrating Geographic Data Science into Public Health & Policy  A…
• March 8, 2021

  Women in Data Science: Chicago

  You are cordially and very enthusiastically invited to Women in Data Science (WiDS): Chicago 2021 on Friday, March 12, from 5-8 pm CST.✨ WiDS: Chicago is an independent event organized to coincide with the annual Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference held at Stanford University and an estimated 150+ locations worldwide. You may have…
• February 26, 2021

  Mar 5: Gentrification Seminar Series Event

  March Seminar Series: Gentrification Friday, March 5th from 2-3pm CST, Register via Zoom   Join the HeRoP Lab this Friday, March 5th for a seminar series event focused on the multidisciplinary and multidimensional topic of Gentrification. We will have presentations and discussion from a leading expert on the topic as well as emerging work from student scholars. Dr. Somashekhar will provide…
• February 12, 2021

  Feb 19: The US Covid Atlas @ Computation + Journalism Symposium 2021

  The US COVID Atlas project will be presenting insights and reflections on the recent development of the Atlas 2.0 at the Northeastern Computation + Journalism Symposium, Data Journalism in an Expanded Field. Details below! Feb 19, 2021, Register Here Speaker: Dylan Halpern, Principal Software Engineer COVID-19 has dominated attention, media, and life around the world in…
• January 7, 2021

  Feb 5: The Black Butterfly by Lawrence Brown

  The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America HEROP Seminar Series & Book Release Event Feb 5, 2020 at 2pm CST, Register via Zoom by Lawrence T. Brown (Director, The Black Butterfly Project) The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray’s…
• December 11, 2020

  Jan 8: Communicating Complexity by Dylan Halpern

  Join us for our January Healthy Regions and Policies (HeRoP) lab meeting, where Principal Software Engineer Dylan Halpern will talk about amplifying geospatial research with webmapping and interaction.