Internship Application and Research Paper Submission Deadlines are Approaching Soon!
Gain Experience in Statistical Analysis at ICPSR!
ICPSR Undergraduate Summer Internship Program
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the world's largest archive of digital social science data, is now accepting applications for its annual summer internship program.
* Deadline for application: February 8, 2010.
* Gain experience using statistical programs such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata.
* Attend courses in the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research.
* $3,000-$5,000 stipend, room and board in university housing, and a scholarship covering the cost of fees, texts, and materials for coursework in the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research.
* Internship runs June 7-August 13, 2010.
For more information, see http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/careers/internship.jsp
ICPSR Research Paper Competitions
ICPSR is sponsoring three competitions to highlight the best student research papers (undergraduate and master’s) using quantitative data. The objective is to encourage students to explore the social sciences by means of critical analysis of a topic supported by quantitative analysis of a dataset(s) held within ICPSR and presented in written form.
* Deadline for submission is January 31, 2010.
* Two competitions covers any dataset(s) held within the ICPSR archive and are eligible to undergraduate and master’s students. The third competition solicits undergraduate papers addressing issues relevant to minorities in the United States, including immigrants, that utilize data from the Resource Center for Minority Data.
* Up to three cash prizes will be awarded for each competition. The winner will receive a monetary award of $1,000 (second place receives $750 and third place $500).
For details on the competition, see http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/prize/index.jsp
