Janssen Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

March 28, 2008

Marco Janssen, associate director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity and faculty in the School of Human Evolution & Social Change and the School of Computing & Informatics, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his transdisciplinary work.

The award will provide more than $400,000 over 5 years to help fund Janssen's research on institutional innovation in the governance of common resources—like forests, pastures and irrigation systems—and develop interactive sustainability games and educational material on computing in the social sciences.

This is the second NSF CAREER Award for the recently launched Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity.  J. Marty Anderies received the first for his work regarding resource degradation. Read more...  

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