Funding for this project supports development of data products to improve decision making and county health officials as they seek to reduce alcohol, tobacco and drug-related harms.
Proceeds of a conference and workshop aimed at developing a national data commons for agriculture producers, universities, and non-profit entities to share data
This project enables a rebuilding of the Story Count, Iowa, prevention partnership with a project aimed at moving people with substance use disorder more directly to treatment services.
A policy report written by Shawn Dorius, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, focused on state and local policies that can reduce alcohol-related community harms. The report was prepared for the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division.
Shawn Dorius, associate professor of sociology, and Iowa State’s Data Science for the Public Good’s Young Scholars Program team have received the 2021 ISU Extension and Outreach Excellence in Research-Based Programming Award. The team earned the award for their work to engage students, community leaders and extension professionals in real-world projects that benefit communities while … Continue reading Shawn Dorius and Data Science for the Public Good team receive ISU Extension award
Shawn Dorius, associate professor of sociology, had his research featured at ISU Day at the Capitol on March 5. With funding by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Data Science for the Public Good is a summer fellows program that trains the next generation of social and computer scientists … Continue reading Shawn Dorius presents research at ISU Day at the Capitol
An Iowa State team of researchers, led by associate professor of sociology Shawn Dorius, has received a $260,000 grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to provide scientific support to the Iowa Department of Public Health as it works to advance substance use recovery resources in Iowa. The ISU team will collect … Continue reading Shawn Dorius receives grant to advance substance use recovery
Shawn Dorius, associate professor of sociology, presented “American Attitudes Towards the China-U.S. Trade War” on Feb. 7 at the Center for Contemporary China at Princeton University.
Associate professor of sociology Shawn Dorius is part of an interdisciplinary team of Iowa State researchers that received a $1 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for their study titled, “Big Data in Small Places: Building a Data Science for the Public Good Program to Support Rural Economic Mobility.” The Iowa State … Continue reading Shawn Dorius is part of an ISU research team that received a $1 million grant