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MPRC strives to provide an environment where our researchers can focus on their projects while we manage the details. Certificate in Demography Program The MPRC Training Program in population studies provides solid interdisciplinary training in demographic methods, theory, and research for graduate students in departments affiliated with the Maryland Population Research Center, culminating in a Certificate in Population Studies for graduate students who complete the required coursework. : : MORE |
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Only University of Maryland faculty and graduate students whose research interests fall within MPRC’s research objectives are eligible to become affiliated. Interested individuals most show evidence of a scholarly research program or the potential to build such a research program in population-related issues; and (for faculty) consistent past, current and/or anticipated success in obtaining population-related grant and contract research. : : MORE To better serve our researchers, MPRC maintains a library of population-related journals and notifies faculty when new issues arrive by emailing them the table of contents. In addition, MPRC maintains table of centralized journal information that includes journal websites as well as archive and JSTOR search links. : : MORE MPRC realizes the important role publishing plays in the academic lives of our researcher. So, in order to better help them, MPRC maintains a webpage of useful links to the submission guidelines of many population-related journals. To find out what is required to submit a paper to a particular journal, check out this page. : : MORE MPRC has dedicated a large amount of financial resources and energy to helping our younger faculty develop research programs and compete successfully for external funding, especially at NICHD. We have targeted the R03 mechanism because most of our faculty had never applied to NIH for funding and many had projects well suited to this mechanism. Our method of aiding faculty is organized, systematic, and rigorous. The workshop meets every week and typically has four or five young scholars working on new projects. The Seed Grant Program at Maryland has five goals for the development of faculty research: (1) to facilitate the development of strong individual research proposals, especially NIH and NSF applications, (2) to support junior faculty in proposal development, (3) to encourage faculty in allied fields or faculty who have not previously sought funding from NIH to develop grant proposals, (4) to encourage grant development that involves faculty from more than one discipline, and (5) to support high-risk/high-return projects or projects where time-sensitive funding is needed. : : MORE The Computing Core offers training in SAS and Stata. Each semester, and during the summer, we offer intense four week training classes in SAS and Stata. Increasingly, faculty and graduate students demand higher level training on specific computational issues. As a result, the Computing Core plans to expand its course offerings to more advanced topics, including Computing Models with Correlated Error Structures using AML, Calculating Standard Errors for Models with Complicated Error Structures using Stata, Using ERISA products for Geographic Analysis and Data Construction, and Parallel and Distributed Computing using Matlab and Intel Math Kernel Libraries. : : MORE The Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC) is pleased to announce a partnership with the Population Research Institute (PRI) at Penn State University to provide easy access to SAS data sets online. PRI offers a long history of supporting population research by providing access to a variety of data, and SodaPop, their newest interface, continues this valuable effort. SodaPop (Simple Online Data Archive for POPulation Studies) is a web-based system that allows PRI, and now MPRC, affiliates to extract data from SAS data sets online, as well as view codebooks and documentation. MPRC and PRI staff look forward to working together to maintain the many data sets available in SodaPop so that our affiliates always have access to the latest data in the formats they need for analysis. : : ACCESS SodaPop. |
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Maryland Population Research Center
0124N Cole Student Activities Building (#162)
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: 301-405-6403
Fax: 301-405-5743