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Chloe Gibbs

May 7, 2025

Notre Dame Economist Chloe Gibbs Appointed Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research

September 24, 2024

ND PIER Fellow Sofia Duenas speaks on behalf of the graduate students at the Convocation & Inauguration of Fr. Robert Dowd

Kristin Valentino

October 7, 2022

NIH awards $4 million grant to psychologists researching suicide prevention

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Chloe Gibbs to serve on Council of Economic Advisors

Chloe Gibbs , assistant professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed to a one-year term as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) . The council is charged with offering the president of the United States objective economic advice based on data...

Dr. Chloe Gibbs

October 27, 2021

Think. Pair. Share. with Dr. Chloe Gibbs

From apple picking and pumpkin patches to community building and examining the economics of education in pursuit of better outcomes for disadvantaged children and families. Dr. Chloe Gibbs , Director of Notre Dame’s Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (ND PIER) and Assistant Professor...

Mark Berends

August 23, 2021

Berends Writes "The Current State of School Choice in the United States" in Phi Delta Kappan

This article first appeared in Phi Delta Kappan. Over the last 30 years, the school choice movement has been one of the most prominent large-scale reform efforts in American education. Arguably, only the national movement to promote rigorous learning standards and test-based accountability has...

Dr. Chloe Gibbs

August 12, 2021

Chloe Gibbs Named New Director of the Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research

Chloe Gibbs , an assistant professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, has been selected to direct the Institute’s Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (ND PIER). Gibbs will lead ND PIER’s efforts to train Notre Dame...

Dr. Chloe Gibbs

Chloe Gibbs Receives Research Grant from AERA-NSF Grants Program

Dr. Chloe Gibbs , a Fellow in the Institute for Educational Initiatives and ND PIER Faculty Committee. member, received a research grant through the AERA-NSF grants program for a project entitled, The War on Poverty and Higher Education Access: Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Effects of...

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Patrick Graff is awarded the AERA Dissertation Grant

Congratulations to ND PIER Burns Fellow and CREO Graduate Student/Ph.D.Candidate Patrick Graff on the award of an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Dissertation Grant. The $25,000 grant provides support the advanced doctoral students doing analysis of large scale data and writing...

Mark Berends

Mark Berends appointed director of the Notre Dame Institute for Educational Initiatives

Mark Berends , a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame who currently directs the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) and serves as an associate vice president for research, has been appointed director of the University’s Institute for Educational Initiatives...

Brian Fitzpatrick is awarded AERA Dissertation Grant

Congratulations to Sociology Ph.D. Candidate and ND PIER Fellow Brian Fitzpatrick on the award of an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Dissertation Grant. The grant provides support to advanced doctoral students doing analysis of large-scale data and writing doctoral dissertations...

ND PIER Burns Fellow Kenya Lee wins NSF Award

ND PIER Burns Fellow Kenya Lee was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Kenya is a second-year graduate student in the Sociology Department and the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity. Her research interests include methods, educational...

Research Panel - Scholarship and the Press: How We Disseminate Research

CREO and ND PIER Host Research Panel - "Scholarship and the Press: How We Disseminate Research"

On Friday, March 5, the Center for Research on Education Opportunity (CREO) and the Notre Dame Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (ND PIER) hosted "Scholarship and the Press: How We Disseminate Research"—a research panel featuring members of the press and the academy. The panel...