IMD High School Summer Research Program Project Descriptions
As IMD prepares for the 2026 high school summer research program, we would like to acknowledge and thank the mentors…
IMD Affiliate-Organized Workshop Recap: “Mathematics of Elections, Fairness, and Representation” at the Banff International Research Station
IMD affiliates David McCune (William Jewell College), Jeanne Clelland (University of Colorado Boulder), Natasa Dragovic (University of Saint Thomas), and…
IMD Team Releases Paper Titled “Candidate Moderation Under Instant Runoff and Condorcet Voting: Evidence from the Cooperative Election Survey”
The first paper has been released following the completion of a project conducted by a team of IMD researchers who…
Seeking Faculty Mentors for 2026 High School Summer Research Program
The Institute for Mathematics and Democracy has funding available to support faculty who want to participate in our high school…
New Gerrychain Data Resource Available
IMD Affiliate Ellen Veomett and her students have made a data resource for running gerrychain freely available at https://github.com/eveomett-states. Gerrychain…
IMD Affiliate and Summer Research Students Complete Paper on “Bloc Voting on Single-Peaked Preferences”
IMD Affiliate Jennifer Wilson, along with students Serena Pallan and Alice Park and graduate assistant Ariel Calver, recently completed a…
Ranked Choice Voting in Wellesley College Government Elections
Do you want more representation and your full preferences to be taken into consideration when you are voting for your…
IMD Affiliate Talk: The Role of CS and Math in Redistricting and Proportional Multimember Districts as an Electoral Reform
Affiliate Brian Brubach from Wellesley College will be presenting on the role of computer science and mathematics in the past,…
Electoral Innovation Lab: 2026 Summer Fellowship Program
The Electoral Innovation Lab is seeking 3-5 summer fellows to work on civic technology, policy research, and electoral communications projects…
IMD Affiliate Delivering Condorcet Lecture at SSCW2026
We are pleased to announce that Edith Elkind, one of our affiliates, will be a keynote speaker at the 18th…
Op-Ed: Too Young to Vote, Not Too Young to Fix Democracy
“We are high schoolers. We are college students. We are redrawing the lines.” High school students Serena Pallan, Ananya Shah,…
IMD in the Wellesley News
IMD is making headlines at Wellesley! Check out these two stories in The Wellesley News which recently featured IMD’s work:…
