[ICPSR] The ICPSR Summer Internship Class of 2012

[Abayomi Israel]

We are pleased to announce the 8th year of the ICPSR Summer Internship
Program for undergraduates (REU Site: The Quantitative Social Science
Research at the University of Michigan
<http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1062317> ).The
application process for the summer internship is very competitive. This
year we received over 250 applications and will be supporting six
interns in the following topical archives: Child Care and Early
Education Research Connections (Education Archives), Data Sharing for
Demographic Research (DSDR), Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD),
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), and the General
Archive (Member's  Archive). 

 

The Interns will spend ten weeks at ICPSR in Ann Arbor from June 4th to
August 10th during which they will:

*          Gain experience processing data and learn statistical
software packages (SAS, SPSS and STATA)

*          Complete a research project resulting in conference-ready
posters

*          Attend graduate level courses in the ICPSR Summer Program 

*          Participate in the Lunch and Lecture series 

 

The objective of the Summer Internship Program is to support ICPSR's
strategic focus on undergraduates by promoting the effective use of
social science research data. We will encourage the interns to pursue
graduate studies or a career in the social or behavioral sciences. With
luck, they will be future data depositors, summer program instructors,
Official Representatives, or even members of the Council. We currently
have thirty-five alumni of the Internship Program and many are currently
attending or have successfully completed graduate school or have begun a
career in the social sciences.  

 

The Internship Program will be managed by Abayomi Israel, with John
Garcia of the Resource Center for Minority Data and Lynette Hoelter of
Instructional Resources serving as Co-Principal Investigators, and
providing guidance and support as Research Program Mentors. Each intern
will be assigned an experienced Research Technician as their Data
Processing Mentor. In addition, the interns will have the opportunity to
receive additional graduate school advice and support on their research
projects from the ICPSR Faculty. 

 

We are very pleased to announce that the following students have been
selected for the 2012 Summer Internship Program: 

 

Jane Oliphant

University of Portland, OR 

Assigned to Education Archive

Processing Mentor: Sara Lazaroff (Intern Alumni class of '08)

 

Jane is a triple major in Social Work, Psychology, and Sociology
graduating in 2013. After graduation, she would like to attend graduate
school in the social sciences or Public Policy and possibly pursue a
career in research.  Jane has experience working with SPSS and has
already identified a number of datasets that she would like to work with
this summer: the Head Start Family and Child Survey (Faces) Series, the
Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) Policies Database, and the Survey of
Income and Program Participation (SIPP) 2004 Panel - just to name a few.
Since 2010, Jane has served as a Resident Assistant and has worked as
the Service and Justice Coordinator at her university. In 2011, she
gained experience as a Camp Counselor at the Cascades Camp and
Conference Center. Jane is also very active in her campus community
where she plays various intramural sports and volunteers in a number of
committees. In 2010, Jane worked as a Social Justice Intern at the
Macdonald Center - an organization that serves the low-income population
in downtown Portland.  Jane's most recent research project examined the
relationship between self-concept and observer ratings. This summer she
would like to focus on the question of how a person's access to
resources in their childhood influenced their later life outcomes - more
specifically, research that examines inner-generational poverty. 

 

Jeffery Berg
Carleton College, MN 

Archive: Members Archive 

Processing Mentor: Doctor Ashe

 

Jeffery is a double major in Political Science/International Relations
and Psychology/Cognitive Science graduating in 2014. Jeffery is most
interested in the evidential side of social science: specifically, data
analysis, and survey design- with the hope to one day pursue a career in
research.  He has worked as a Research Assistant for his college's
Political Science department where his work focused on the nature of
political advertisements during the 2008 political campaigns. In
addition, during the spring of 2012, Jeffery interned at the National
Archives under the supervision of the External Affairs Liaison. Although
only a sophomore, Jeffery has already gained experience with SPSS, TIBCO
Spotfire, and  S-plus. In addition, he has working knowledge in the
Python programming language and is fluent in Spanish. Outside of the
classroom, Jeffery has served as the General Editor of The Echo
Newspaper and Chief Editor of the Literary Journal at Wheaton Academy,
and is currently the Photographer and Editor for Media Relations at his
college and Ice Hockey Statistician at the Advanced Ice Arenas.

 

Joshua Goode

University of Colorado Denver, Red Rocks Community College, CO 

Archive: DSDR

Processing Mentor: Tommaso Pavone (Intern Alumni class of '10)



Joshua is a Sociology major and Demography minor graduating in 2013 with
an interest in becoming a Sociology professor one day. Specifically, he
hope is to pursue a research career in the area of family demography. In
2011, Joshua worked as a Research Assistant for two different professors
where he learned about working with both qualitative and quantitative
data. In terms of experience with data, Joshua has worked with Early
Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort (ECLSB) data, as well as the
Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) data from the United Kingdom. His senior
thesis on the educational aspirations and expectations of minority youth
utilizes the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add
Health) and he has experience with SPSS, STATA and Mplus.  In 2011,
Joshua has also given two conference presentations; the first was at the
National Council on Family Relations Meeting in Orlando Florida, and the
other at the National Center for Family & Marriage Research Counting
Couples, Counting Families Conference in Bethesda Maryland. Joshua
serves as president of the Students of Sociology Club and vice-president
of the Alpha Kappa Delta, the international Sociology honor society. 

 

Rosa Rincon

California State University Northridge, Pasadena City College, CA 

Archive: NACJD

Processing Mentor: Justin Noble

 

Rosa is a junior Sociology and Criminology major with an Associates of
Arts Degree in Sociology from Pasadena City College. After graduation
she plans to attend graduate school in either Sociology or Criminology
with the hope of one of two career trajectories - an analyst in the
criminal justice system for city or state government or a Sociology
professor at a community college. Rosa has worked with a number of large
data sets, including the General Social Survey and the National
Longitudinal Surveys, and has experience in SPSS. She has worked as a
Youth Leader at the Pasadena Unified School District, and has served as
the Community Representative for Puente Club. Rosa is bilingual and uses
her fluency in Spanish and English when volunteering as a tutor at the
Senior Center and at El Centro de Accion Social. As a first-generation
college student, Rosa hopes that the ICPSR Summer Internship will give
her greater experience in statistical methods and social research as to
prepare her for the next steps in her career.

 

Thomas Hegland

St. Olaf College, MN 

Archive: Members Archive 

Processing Mentor: Kevin Kapalla 

 

Thomas is a double major in Mathematics and Economics with an emphasis
on Public Policy and a concentration in Statistics graduating in 2013.
After graduation, Thomas plans on pursuing a graduate degree in
Economics with the hope of one day becoming an economist. Through his
wide range of experiences, Thomas has acquired a wide range of technical
skills; this includes experience in the use of the R statistical
computing language, Linux/Unix environments, SAS, STATA and EViews. He
has also worked with a number of large data sets such as the Integrated
Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and the Panel Study of Income
Dynamics (PSID). His main research interest is urban poverty as he
believes that it is tied to many other questions relating not just to
Economics but also to the broader social structure. In addition, some of
his academic achievements include studying Number Theory in Hungary in
2011, the Buntrock Academic Scholarship, a publication in the Journal of
the Minnesota Academy of Sciences, and a number of presentations
including his most recent at the National Conference on Undergraduate
Research. From 2010 to the present, Thomas has worked as an
Undergraduate Research Fellow for the NSF supported Center for
Interdisciplinary Research. He also serves as member and coach of the
debate team, member of the Math team, class representative for the
Mathematical Association of America and the vice president of his
college's chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon - the national Economics
honor society. Currently he serves on the Student Government as the
Chief Financial Officer of the political Awareness Committee.

 

Tori Thomas
Georgia State University, GA 

Archive:  RCMD

Processing Mentor: Abayomi Israel (Intern Alumni class of '05)



Tori is a Sociology major and African American Studies minor graduating
in 2013. After graduation, she would like to participate in the Teach
for America Program with the ultimate goal of attending graduate school
in either Sociology or Education. Tori is a Ronald McNair scholar and
has been awarded a number of accolades including the Margaret Andersen
Award for outstanding performance in Sociology. In addition, she has
received the Georgia Hope scholarship, the Horatio Alger Scholarship and
the Next Generation Award Scholarship. Tori has experience in both SPSS
and SAS and has worked as a Research Assistant and Intern in the McNair
Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program and the NSF/NIH funded Public
Housing Study respectively. Through these programs, Tori has developed
an interest in studying how relocation out of public housing affected
educational opportunities in minority communities. In 2010, Tori also
served as the Statistics and Measurement Intern for The Georgia Center
for Nonprofits and has continued to be a very active member of her
community. She is currently a member of the Theta Nu Xi Multicultural
Sorority Incorporated, served as a First Year Mentor and Service
Ambassador at her university and is a Junior Achievement Volunteer
responsible for teaching financial literacy at elementary and middle
schools.

 

For more information about the internship or our past interns, please
visit www.icpsr.umich.edu/internship. 

 

 

Abayomi Israel

Program Manager

ICPSR Summer Internship Program

www.icpsr.umich.edu/internships

Research Technician Lead

Resource Center for Minority Data

www.icpsr.umich.edu/RCMD

email: israela at umich.edu

 

 

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