Noshir Contractor participated in the "Balancing AI across Regulation, Innovation & Safety" panel at the UK - India AI Conference today. He joined leading experts in two panel discussions, exploring the intersections of AI development concerning regulation, innovation, and safety

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 Excited to share that my latest paper with johan koskinen, Leslie DeChurch, and noshir @[email protected] on “Modeling the 'who' and 'how' of social influence in the adoption of health practices” is now published in Social Networks!🔗 Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S03…

📢 Announcing the 2025-26 CASBS fellows class The class is comprised of 33 scholars and practitioners representing 18 U.S. institutions and 12 international institutions and programs. Meet the 2025-26 fellows: bit.ly/4lmkiS2

We’re thrilled to share that SONIC Lab’s director, Professor Noshir Contractor, has been named a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Congratulations, noshir @[email protected] ! Explore the full list of fellows here: bit.ly/4lmkiS2

We’re thrilled to share that JACR Volume 53, Issue 1 (2025) is live! A special shoutout to Noshir Contractor and Leslie DeChurch for their featured Forum article: “We Are a go for launch!" Read the full issue here: lnkd.in/gBvkhV6j noshir @[email protected]

Noshir Contractor, will be delivering an inaugural address at the ICA India Chapter’s 1st Anniversary Celebration Symposium on April 22, 2025. The event will also feature Prof. Ujwala Chakradeo and Dr. B.P. Sanjay. 🕤 : 9:30 AM IST 🔗: meet.google.com/wua-kzxh-fxk noshir @[email protected]

🚨 New Paper: “Modeling the ‘who’ & ‘how’ of social influence in health practice adoption” Using data from Kenya, we find that persuasive conversations among close ties, not just exposure, drive behavior change. By Neelam , Johan Koskinen, Leslie DeChurch & noshir @[email protected]

Northwestern’s MS in Communication presents the Renaissance Leadership Retreat/ Certificate, a immersive experience in Italy. Designed to inspire, this retreat honors 4 decades of advancing communication leadership worldwide. 🗓️ April 27 – May 2 📍 Florence, Italy noshir @[email protected]

We’re proud to share that SONIC Lab’s Glenna Wang has won the Burton and Karol Lefkowitz Prize (Div. II) at NU School of Comm’s 2025 Honors Convocation! 🎉 Glenna’s leadership shines through her work in marketing, research, internships, and student theatre. Congrats, Glenna! 💜

Congrats to Dr. Neelam Modi on defending her dissertation, “Essays on Network Approaches to Understanding Social Influence”! Committee: Noshir Contractor (chair), Dashun Wang, Leslie DeChurch (Northwestern), Johan Koskinen (Stockholm Univ.), Alina Lungeanu (Northeastern Univ.)

🎉 Big congrats to SONIC undergrad Faith Do for winning 2nd place in Social & Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern’s Research Expo! Her project on AI in human teams, guided by PhD student Simon Liu, impressed judges with its clarity and impact.

New research by Brian Uzzi, Noshir Contractor, Satyam Mukherjee, and Yun Huang shows teams are 1.6x more likely to win when they recruit from rival teams—not just for talent, but for insider knowledge. Read: The Upside of Recruiting Your Rivals insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/the-up…

On June 9, SONIC Lab welcomed back Prof. Julia Neidhardt (TU Wien) for a talk on “Human-Centered Recommender Systems.” A former visiting scholar at SONIC, she now leads work at the intersection of AI and digital humanism. Learn more: informatics.tuwien.ac.at/people/julia-n…

Join us in congratulating Professor Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University) on receiving the ICA B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award. This award honors scholars who’ve made a lasting impact in the academic field of communication. noshir @[email protected]

Congrats to Dr. Neelam Modi on her Ph.D. from Northwestern! Next up: a postdoc at Columbia Business School in the Management Division & Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change. 📸 Pictured with noshir @[email protected] at commencement!

We are proud to share that Megan Chan presented research at the Academy of Management (AoM) 2025 Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark! Closing the Loop: Multicommunicating in Multiteam Systems Authors: Chan, M., Carter, D., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. Date: July 25–29, 2025

Proud to celebrate that paper, “When Two is Too Many and Not Enough: Shared Leadership in Ancient Rome (32 to 491 CE)”, by Leslie DeChurch, Alina Lungeanu, Megan Chan, Noshir Contractor, received the Sage Publishers Award for Best Management History Division Paper in Leadership.

Congrats to the Network Canvas Team—winners of the 2025 William D. Richards Software Award! - Kate Banner, Michelle Birkett, Caden Buckhalt, Noshir Contractor, Bernie Hogan, Patrick Janulis, Joshua Melville & Gregory Phillips II

Excited to share the publication of “Leading the crew to Mars: Evidence from NASA HERA analog crews” in Acta Astronautica! Co-authored by Alina Lungeanu, Leslie DeChurch, Megan Chan, and Noshir Contractor Read here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

At the NU-Q RAWABET Conference, Professor Contractor discussed the emergence of collaborative intelligence, in which AI, domain experts, and technical specialists converge to create integrated systems of human and machine intelligence that are poised to reshape scholarly work.