The School of Social Sciences is now accepting applications for the
Charles A. Lave Paper Prize for Creative Modeling in Social Sciences.
The author of the winning paper will receive $1,500.
Charles Lave served for more than thirty years as a Professor of Economics at UCI. He valued creative thinking, clear writing, and innovative uses of empirical data. He helped shape social science modeling through his teaching and through
his classic book, An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences (written with James March). The prize will be awarded to papers that display clear exposition of creative models (theories) and point to, or include, data that permit evaluation of the models.
•Any UCI undergraduate or graduate student is eligible for the prize.
•The paper may be in any social or behavioral science discipline, or interdisciplinary.
•It may be qualitative (with words only) or quantitative (with mathematical expressions).
•The form may range from a scholarly article (including papers done as class assignments or dissertation chapters) to an op-ed piece.
In keeping with Charles Lave’s values, clear and concise writing will be appreciated.
A submission form is available at
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~tneighbo/LaveApp11.doc
The deadline for submission is 4:00pm Monday, May 2, 2011.
Please submit hard copies only. No electronic submissions accepted.
•Undergraduate student papers should be turned in to Teresa Neighbors,
Undergraduate Program Coordinator, SBSG 5406.
•Graduate student papers should be turned in to John Somerhauser,
Graduate Office Manager, SBSG 5414.
Teresa Neighbors
Director, Student Activities
Acting Director, SAEP
Undergraduate Studies
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School of Social Sciences
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