Calculate your neighborhood’s ‘cognability’
Does your neighborhood help protect your cognitive health as you age? A new tool, an interactive map developed by ISR researchers, allows you to plug in your address and assess how your neighborhood could support healthy cognitive aging under a theory Jessica Finlay and colleagues developed, called “cognability.” Learn more about this research.
Our Centers
ISR consists of five separate but interdependent research centers, each with a particular focus and capabilities.
Projects & Grants
We conduct research in a wide variety of areas. View some of our recent project highlights or explore them all by topic area.
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Population Health
An Adaptive Preventive Intervention to Optimize the Transition from Universal to Indicated Resources for College Student Alcohol Use
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Social Psychology
Pathways to Science and Engineering Professions: Persistence and career choice for bachelors and masters graduates' research experiences, decision points and labor market transitions
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Faculty Profiles
ISR’s faculty experts conduct groundbreaking and wide-ranging social science research — representing more than 20 academic disciplines. Included below are two examples of the type of work being done by members of our team.
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Noura Elise Insolera
Research Investigator, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Noura Insolera is a Research Investigator at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. She leads the Education and … more -
Catherine Asher
Assistant Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy
Catherine Armstrong Asher is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Youth Policy Lab … more
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Contact: Morgan Sherburne, 734-647-1844, morganls@umich.edu ANN ARBOR—Researchers have been concerned that as the makeup of America’s families grows more complex, Read more
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September 19, 2022
Calculate your neighborhood’s ‘cognability’
Contact: Morgan Sherburne, 734-647-1844, morganls@umich.edu ANN ARBOR—Does your neighborhood help protect your cognitive health as you age? A new tool, Read more
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‘Seeing Us in Them’ Collects ISPP, APSA Awards
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