Colm O'Muircheartaigh    Dan A. Black

June 22, 2009

CHICAGO--NORC Senior Fellows Colm O’Muircheartaigh and Dan A. Black have accepted leadership positions at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School for Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. O’Muircheartaigh will become the Dean of the Harris School and Black will become Deputy Dean.  Both hold joint appointments at NORC and the University of Chicago.

Both O’Muircheartaigh and Black have made extremely valuable contributions to NORC.  O’Muircheartaigh played a major role in such pivotal projects as the National Social Life Health and Aging Project (NSHAP), the National Children’s Study (NCS), and the General Social Survey (GSS), along with his innovative work building NORC's national sampling frame using the US Postal Service list of addresses.  He is one of the world's most forward-thinking statisticians, with special interests in survey research methodology, sample and questionnaire design and analysis, response and nonresponse error, and data quality.

Black also has made major contributions to NORC as Principal lnvestigator for the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth – 1997 Cohort (NLSY97) and as the associate project director for the larger NLSY program. At NORC, Black has built upon his status as one of the preeminent experts on urban labor markets, human capital, and measurement error. Black also has been successful in promoting broad collaboration with researchers in a wide range of disciplines on the NLSY program.

For more information, visit the Harris School's News Office and read the press release.