[ICPSR] Miller and Flanigan award winners announced

[Dan Meisler]

ICPSR is pleased to announce the 2011 recipients of the Warren E. Miller
Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences  and the William H.
Flanigan Award for Distinguished Service as an ICPSR Official
Representative. 

Tom Smith, senior fellow and director at the National Opinion Research
Center, and Kevin Schürer, professor at the University of Leicester in the
United Kingdom, have won the Miller award.

Paula Lackie, academic computing coordinator for the social sciences at
Carleton College, and Laine Ruus, retired head of library services at the
University of Toronto, have won the Flanigan Award.

The awards will be presented at the biennial meeting of ICPSR Official
Representatives in October in Ann Arbor.

Smith is an internationally recognized expert in survey research and has
been director of the General Social Survey (GSS), the largest and longest
project supported by the National Science Foundation¹s Sociology program,
since 1980. He is also co-founder and past Secretary General of the
International Social Survey Program, the largest cross-national
collaboration in the social sciences.

Schürer served as director of the UK Data Archive from 2000-2010 and is
pro-vice chancellor at the University of Leicester. His research interests
include historical demography and household structure; internal migration in
Victorian and Edwardian England; historical methodology; data enhancement
databases; and data archiving. Schürer is an Academician of the Academy for
the Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and Royal
Geographical Society.

Lackie has been the ICPSR OR for Carleton College for more than 20 years,
and served on the ICPSR Council from 2004-2008. On the council she chaired
the Preservation and Access Committee. Her research interests include the
pedagogical and technical contexts for the use of data in teaching and
learning, and exploring the service-learning opportunities for students
interested in the open data movement.

Ruus  , who calls herself the ³oldest living data librarian in North
America,² was a data librarian for more than 35 years before her retirement.
She was an ICPSR OR from 1988 to 2010, and was instrumental in forming the
ICPSR Canadian federation serving eastern Canada.

More information on the awards and detailed biographies of the winners are
available  at www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/or/awards/index.jsp
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Dan Meisler, editor
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
University of Michigan
734-615-7904
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu


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