PRIISM, the Center for Practice and Research at the Intersection of Information, Society, and Methodology, is an interdisciplinary center that builds capacity for researchers within academia and beyond to collect data, build inferential models and predictive algorithms, and communicate findings in impactful and socially responsible ways.
PRIISM Seminar Series
Watch the PRIISM seminar about an ongoing online experiment investigating how generative AI in college admission essays may reshape the demographic makeup of admitted students and transform how merit is evaluated with Dr. Austin van Loon, assistant professor at MIT.
Highlights
Professional development program helps to train and retain NYC science teachers
Dr. Meryle Weinstein and colleagues find that Urban Advantage, a professional development science initiative in NYC, reduces middle school science teacher turnover.
Is the STEM gender gap closing or widening at US universities?
Dr. Joseph Cimpian and NYU doctoral student, Jo R. King, reveal that the substantial gender gap in physics, engineering, and computer science (PECS) has narrowed at selective institutions serving students with high math SAT scores but widened at less selective schools.
View our gallery of past highlights.
The PRIISM Team
Meet the faculty, researchers, students, and affiliates working at PRIISM
Meet the TeamMS, Applied Statistics for Social Science Research
PRIISM is highly integrated with the academic program of Applied Statistics for Social Science Research. Learn advanced quantitative research techniques and apply them to critical policy issues across social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Degree Details How to ApplyPhD, Statistics and Computational Social Science
PRIISM is highly integrated with the doctoral program of Statistics and Computational Social Science. Learn about statistical, computational, and social science theory and how the combination of these disciplines can be used to understand and address problems of social importance in public health, education, criminal justice, and other domains.
Degree Details How to Apply
