Congratulations to our junior members for getting a new award created in their honor!

We would like to acknowledge the hard work of three of our Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program (ASSIP, https://science.gmu.edu/assip) participants, Mihika Dusad, Ellie Chen, and Dashiell Bhattacharyya.

With the support and guidance of our own Bill Kennedy, their presentations at the prestigious Computational Social Science Society of the Americas conference in Santa Fe in 2022 led the leadership of CSSSA to create a brand new award to specifically recognize the talent of these budding researchers called “New Voices in the CSS”. It is not every day that your work impresses so much, that a new award category is created! We again congratulate these aspiring researchers and hope to see many more contributions from them in the future.

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