Angela Vossmeyer, the Rothacker Family Associate Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, published “Likelihood specification in simultaneous equation models for discrete data” with co-author Ivan Jeliazkov in the Journal of Econometrics. In the publication, Vossmeyer and Jeliakov derive the likelihood function of simultaneous equation models for discrete data as the invariant distribution of a suitably specified Markov process.

Minxin Pei P’12, the Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and George R.

Under the direction of Ken Miller, Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government and the Rose Professor of State and Local Government, the Rose Institute has received a one-year $100,000 planning grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation to study the implementation of L.A. County’s Measure G, the County’s major government restructuring and reform measure.

Henri Cole, the Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Literature, was named a finalist by the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for his poetry collection, “The Other Love” (2025, Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The NBCC Award is presented annually to the finest books published in English in six categories: fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry, and criticism.

Nicholas Buccola, Professor of Government and the Dr. Jules K. Whitehill Professor of Humanism & Ethics at CMC, was interviewed about his book, One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal (Princeton University Press, 2025), on NPR’s Code Switch program.

Aseema Sinha, Wagener Family Professor of Comparative Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow, published a chapter in the book, International Organizations and Peaceful Change in World Politics,edited by T. V. Paul, Anders Wivel, and Kai He (Cambridge University Press, 2025).

Jennifer Feitosa, Associate Professor of Psychological Science and Director of METRICS Lab, recently published an article, “Adapt, endure, succeed: profiling extreme teams” in Team Performance Management. Feitosa and her research colleagues examined the internal dynamics of

Chiu-Yen Kao, Keck Foundation Professor of Applied Math and Computer Science, received a new research grant from the National Science Foundation’s Computational Mathematics Program to develop and analyze new computational methods for solving extremal eigenvalue problems.

Gabriel Cook, Associate Professor of Psychological Science, earned a grant from the Mental Research Institute. With grant funding, Cook will explore the intersection of transactional memory and prospective memory within married couples, investigating how partners share and manage delayed intentions in daily life.

Wendy de los Reyes, Assistant Professor of Psychological Science and Director of the AMPLIFY Lab (Advocacy, Mentorship, and Participatory research with Latine Immigrant Families and Youth) published two articles.