Professor Charles Wallace, Computer Science, is among the recipients of a spring 2024 Research Seed Grant award from the Institute for Policy, Ethics, and Culture (IPEC). The full list of recipients is below.
The grant will support two Computer Science undergraduate students, Nat Anderson and Joe Halcombe, during summer 2024 as they assist Computer Science PhD student Josh Alele-Beals in his research. The project involves the use of computational modeling and analysis to explore the consequences of criminal expungement statutes. Collaborators on the project include Ali Ebnenasir (Associate Professor, Computer Science) and Susanna Peters (Associate Teaching Professor, Social Sciences).
The principal investigators of the awarded projects are:
Faculty Small Seed Research Grants:
- Erika Vye (GLRC)
- Mark Lounibos (HU)
- Dana Van Kooy (HU)
- Mary Cyr (VPA)
- Chuck Wallace (CS)
- Alexandra Morrison (HU)
- Rich Canevez (HU)
- Mark Rouleau (SS)
Graduate Student Research Grants:
- Kyle Parker McGlynn, Ph.D. student — Industrial Heritage and Archaeology
- Aritra Chakrabarty, Ph.D. student — Environmental and Energy Policy
- Kendall Belopavlovich, Ph.D. candidate — Rhetoric, Theory and Culture
- James Akinola, Ph.D. student — Rhetoric, Theory and Culture
- Emma Johnson, Ph.D. student — Rhetoric, Theory and Culture
- Rachael Hathcoat, M.S. student — Rhetoric, Theory and Culture
The Institute for Policy, Ethics, and Culture (IPEC) addresses the policy implications, ethical considerations, and cultural significance of the massive changes and disruptive forces currently underway. By bringing policy, ethics, and culture into the center of inquiry, IPEC creates collaborations on topics key to understanding technocultural change: issues such as algorithmic culture, medicine, biotechnology, and ethics; technology and autonomy; surveillance and privacy; and reconfiguring human relationships in and with a changing environment. IPEC brings together a diversity of knowledge holders—faculty, staff, and community partners—to collaborate on and support research, policy, sharing, and teaching that responds to the changing technological environment.