Past Events

Prior events at the Maryland Population Research Center

Immigration Working Group November 2009 - Analyzing Immigration & the Characteristics of the Foreign Born: Data Sources from the U.S. Census Bureau (0124B Cole Student Activities Bldg., from Nov 19, 2009 12:00 PM to Nov 19, 2009 01:00 PM)

Presenter: Thomas Gryn, Statistician, Immigration Statistics Staff, Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau. During this meeting of the Immigration Working Group, Mr. Gryn will discuss Census Bureau Data Sources for Studying Immigration and the Foreign-Born Population.

Mentored Grantwriting Workshop - 18 November 2009 (0124B Cole Student Activities Bldg., from Nov 18, 2009 09:00 AM to Nov 18, 2009 10:30 AM)

The Mentored Grantwriting Workshop meets regularly during the academic year as an opportunity for researchers to develop and polish their research proposals

The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform (0124B Cole Student Activities Bldg., from Nov 16, 2009 02:00 PM to Nov 16, 2009 04:00 PM)

Qualitative Research Interest Group hosts Dr. Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Associate Professor of Sociology & African American Studies at Northwestern University

Workshop on Multiple Imputation for Survey Data Analysis (0124D Cole Student Activities Building, from Nov 13, 2009 01:00 PM to Nov 13, 2009 02:30 PM)

Missing values in survey data may lead to biased parameter estimates that do not accurately represent the population.

Gender, Work, and Family Working Group November 2009 (0124B Cole Student Activities Building, from Nov 12, 2009 03:15 PM to Nov 12, 2009 04:15 PM)

Presenter: Katharine Abraham, Professor of Survey Methodology and Adjunct Professor of Economics. During this meeting of the Gender, Work, and Family working group, Dr. Katharine Abraham will be presenting on the American Time Use Survey - Data Extract Builder. MPRC will provide sodas and cookies.

Child Mobility, Maternal Status, and Household Composition in Rural South Africa (3315 Benjamin Building, from Nov 11, 2009 12:00 PM to Nov 11, 2009 02:00 PM)

Sangeetha Madhavan, Assistant Professor, African American Studies Department & Population Research Center, University of Maryland

Bianchi, Goldscheider featrured at Penn State Pop Insti Conference (State College, Pennsylvania, from Nov 03, 2009 08:30 AM to Nov 03, 2009 12:00 PM)

Former MPRC Director Suzanne Bianchi to give annual De Jong Lecture

Seminar Series : An NICHD Perspective On Getting Funding : Linking Population Research and Global Health Research (0124B Cole Student Activities Building, from Nov 02, 2009 12:00 PM to Nov 02, 2009 01:00 PM)

Susan Newcomer from NICHD will speak on health initiatives at NIH.

Introductory SAS 9 (day3) (0124D Building #162 , from Oct 23, 2009 01:00 PM to Oct 23, 2009 02:30 PM)

MPRC will offer a non-credit and no-fee introductory SAS 9 training course this month (Fridays, October 9, 16 and 23 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm).

Immigration Working Group October 2009 (1101 Art-Sociology Bldg., from Oct 22, 2009 12:15 PM to Oct 22, 2009 01:15 PM)

This meeting of the Immigration Working Group will be held in conjunction with a talk by Jennifer Glick, Arizona State University, in the Department of Sociology conference room, 1101 Art-Sociology Bldg., beginning at 12:15 p.m.

Seminar Series: Family Migration Patterns: Maternal Age at Arrival & Children's Cognitive & Academic Performance (1101 Art-Sociology Building, from Oct 22, 2009 12:15 PM to Oct 22, 2009 01:15 PM)

Jennifer Glick, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Arizona State University

JPSM Presentation : Rare Events Across Time and Space (1208 LeFrak Hall, from Oct 22, 2009 11:00 AM to Oct 22, 2009 12:00 PM)

Ulrich Kohler, Social Science Research Center, Berlin (WZB), looks at time use using PSID and German GSOEP data

Intermediate Stata 10 (day2) (0124D Building #162 , from Oct 20, 2009 01:00 PM to Oct 20, 2009 02:30 PM)

MPRC will offer a non-credit and no-fee intermediate Stata 10 training course this month (Tuesdays, October 13 and 20 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm).

Seminar Series: Gender Inequality In India (0124B Cole Student Activities Building, from Oct 19, 2009 12:00 PM to Oct 19, 2009 01:00 PM)

Sonalde Desai &Reeve Vanneman, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland

Introductory SAS 9 (day2) (0124D Building #162, from Oct 16, 2009 01:00 PM to Oct 16, 2009 02:30 PM)

MPRC will offer a non-credit and no-fee introductory SAS 9 training course this month (Fridays, October 9, 16 and 23 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm).

Gender, Work, and Family Working Group October 2009 (0124B Cole Student Activities Building, from Oct 15, 2009 03:15 PM to Oct 15, 2009 04:15 PM)

During this meeting of the Gender, Work, and Family working group, Betsy Thorn will discuss her research with the American Time Use Survey. This is a brown-bag event. Bring your lunch. The MPRC will provide sodas and cookies.

Seminar Series: Immigration & Native Mobility Decisions: The Influences of Local & Extralocal Conditions (1101 Art-Sociology Building, from Oct 15, 2009 12:15 PM to Oct 15, 2009 01:15 PM)

Kyle Crowder, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Intermediate Stata 10 (day1) (0124D Building #162 , from Oct 13, 2009 01:00 PM to Oct 13, 2009 02:30 PM)

MPRC will offer a non-credit and no-fee intermediate Stata 10 training course this month (Tuesdays, October 13 and 20 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm).

Mentored Grantwriting Workshop - October 2009 (0124B Cole Student Activities Bldg., from Oct 12, 2009 09:30 AM to Oct 12, 2009 10:30 AM)

First meeting of the workshop for this semester will focus on NIH news, setting schedule

Introductory SAS 9 (day1) (0124D Building #162, from Oct 09, 2009 01:00 PM to Oct 09, 2009 02:30 PM)

MPRC will offer a non-credit and no-fee introductory SAS 9 training course this month (Fridays, October 9, 16 and 23 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm).