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Winners of the Summer Graduate Research Fellowships!

Suman Singha, Vice President for Research, and Mark Abrahamson, Director of the Roper Center, are pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Roper Center Mitofsky Research Fellowships. These fellowships, with $1800 stipends, are given to graduate students, from any UConn program, to pursue research in their specialty areas utilizing data in the Roper Center. Located on the third floor of Babbidge Library, the Center is the largest public opinion archive in the world.  Learn more about the research fellowships winners.

 

Undergraduates--SHARE AWARDS

The SHARE program supports undergraduate research projects in the social sciences, humanities, and arts. SHARE is designed especially for students in the earlier stages of their college careers to introduce them to research in their chosen field and give them the skills they will need for further research projects.

RARE, a special sub-set of SHARE awards, is designed to encourage faculty and undergraduates to use the resources of the Roper Center in undergraduate research and creative projects. Data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. Over 50 nations are represented in addition to US data.

To learn more about RARE, visit http://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/roper.php.

 

Summer Internships

  • The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press is offering a paid internship opportunity during the summer of 2012 for undergraduate students entering their senior year, recent college graduates, or graduate level students with an interest in political polling or survey research. The summer intern will be expected to assist the research team on various aspects of the survey process, including questionnaire development, data management, statistical analysis, reporting of survey results and quality control. For all of these tasks, attention to detail and individual judgment are critical in maintaining the highest standards of accuracy and impartiality. For more information about the position and how to apply, see http://pewresearch.org/docs/?DocID=10018.
  • ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research provides a comprehensive, integrated program of studies in research design, statistics, data analysis, and social science methodology. Its instructional environment stresses integration of methods of quantitative analysis within a broader context of substantive social research. Instruction is grounded in interactive, participatory data-analysis utilizing high-end, networked microcomputers. For more information about the program and how to register, see http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/

 

Off-site access to Center resources


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  • Go to iPOLL by searching for “surveys” or “iPOLL” off the electronic databases link
  • Use the links on the library site to access our databases

 

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