Health Sciences
Giving one group a new drug and another a placebo.
What is a Clinical Trial?
Dropping weight from different heights to test how gravity works.
What is Experimental Research?
Studying past Supreme Court decisions to learn about precedent.
What is Legal Doctrinal Research?
Coding a small program to model how cars move through an intersection.
What is Simulation Research?
A designer sketches and tests a model for a new type of chair.
What is Creative Design Research?
Watching how patients behave in a waiting room without intervening.
What is Observational Research?
Measuring air quality daily at the top of a mountain.
What is Field Research?
Asking voters how they feel about a new education policy.
What is Empirical Survey Research?
Sending out online questionnaires about smartphone use.
What is Empirical Survey Research?
An anthropologist joins a festival to observe cultural traditions.
What is Ethnographic Field Research
Asking 500 people about their eating habits through online questionnaires.
What is Survey Research?
Creating software that predicts the orbit of asteroids.
What is Computational Simulation?
Investigating the details of one famous civil rights trial.
What is a Legal Case Study?
Building a machine learning tool to detect fake news.
What is Applied AI Research?
Interviewing athletes about the role of sports in community identity.
What is Qualitative Survey Research?
Following a single cancer patient’s treatment journey over several years.
What is a Case Study?
Using equations to explain the behavior of black holes.
What is Theoretical Physics?
Comparing how different countries regulate online privacy.
What is Comparative Legal Research?
Proving mathematically why one algorithm sorts faster than another.
What is Algorithmic Theoretical Research?
Examining how one city rebuilt itself after a devastating earthquake.
What is a Community Case Study?
Using computer models to predict how a virus spreads through a population.
What is Epidemiological Modeling?
Designing and building the world’s first quantum computer prototype.
What is Experimental Design Research?
Using algorithms to analyze thousands of court rulings for hidden patterns.
What is Legal Analytics Research?
Using supercomputers to model global climate change.
What is Computational Modeling?
Creating abstract models of how ancient civilizations collapse over centuries.
What is Theoretical Historical Research?