[ICPSR] From ICPSR: Undergraduate Internships and Research Paper Competitions

[Linda Detterman]

Undergraduates are facing increasing competition and a multitude of
choices when it comes to making decisions on potential careers.  To help
students evaluate these tough decisions, for the past several years,
ICPSR has been sponsoring two learning opportunities designed to immerse
undergraduate students in social sciences research.  Our goal is to
enable them to explore the social sciences as a career and to provide
them that "good story" to tell when they get to the interview process.

Though the deadlines are a few months ahead of us, they come quickly.
We encourage you to share this information with prospective students and
their faculty and advisors!

ICPSR Undergraduate Research Paper Competition

ICPSR sponsors two undergraduate research paper competitions
<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/prize/> . The first competition,
sponsored by the general archive at ICPSR, requires a research paper
supported by quantitative analysis of any dataset(s) held within the
ICPSR archive or any of its special topic archives.

The second competition is sponsored by the Minority Data Resource Center
<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/MDRC/index.html>  (MDRC). The paper must
address issues relevant to underrepresented minorities in the United
States including immigrants, and data must be drawn from the MDRC. A
separate committee will be formed to judge this competition. 

The purpose of these competitions is to highlight the best undergraduate
student research papers using quantitative data.  The objective is to
encourage undergraduates to explore the social sciences by means of
critical analysis of a topic supported by quantitative analysis of a
dataset(s) held within the ICPSR archive and presented in written form.

Up to three cash prizes will be awarded for each competition, and the
deadline for submission is May 31, 2009.

ICPSR Undergraduate Internship

The ICPSR Internship
<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/careers/internship.html>  is a 10-week
program designed to familiarize students with social science research,
data preparation, and analysis.  Interns work in the UNIX and Windows
environments and gain experience using statistical programs such as SAS,
SPSS, and Stata to check data. Data processing skills will be applied to
prepare social science data for permanent archiving and distribution for
secondary analysis; preserving respondent anonymity; and composing
descriptions of data collections. These positions are supervised by an
experienced Research Associate. 

Interns attend courses in the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative
Methods of Social Research <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/> .
Interns will be required to attend a weekly Lunch and Lecture series
that will expose them to various aspects and departments of ICPSR and
Institute for Social Research <http://www.isr.umich.edu/home/>  (ISR).
There may be additional social and work-related functions involving
other ICPSR staff and interns from other ISR units and summer programs.

This is a paid internship and the application deadline is February 2,
2009.

Note:  This information is also posted on The ICPSR Blog
<http://community.livejournal.com/ormeeting/>  and the Instructor
Community's Journal <http://community.livejournal.com/olcblog/>  (OLC
blog).

 

 

Linda Detterman

Marketing & Membership Director

ICPSR

University of Michigan

734.615.5494

lindamd at umich.edu <mailto:lindamd at umich.edu>  

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