Registration Now Open for All 2016 Courses

Visit our Registration page for instructions on how to sign up for our courses.

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New ICPSR Scholarship

Eugene Owen Scholarship

for Research on the International Assessment of Student Achievement

This scholarship honors Dr. Eugene Owen, whose career with the National Center for Education Statistics spanned 30 years and included seminal contributions to the development of cross-national surveys.

The Owen Scholarship is open to senior graduate students or outstanding pre-tenure scholars. Applicants can come from any academic discipline, but they should have professional interests in one or more of the following areas of research:

• Advancing cross-national research on K-12 student achievement

• Advancing cross-national research on college- or university-level achievement

• Understanding the role of teaching from a cross-national perspective

More information and application materials can be found here.

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Funding for University of Michigan Graduate Students

The ISR-Rackham Summer Training Awards are meant to support University of Michigan graduate students in the ICPSR Summer Program. These funds are limited and available to doctoral students across all Rackham divisions. Applications due March 1, 2016.

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Cooperation between the ICPSR Summer Program and the Global School in Empirical Research Methods

The ICPSR Summer Program is pleased to announce its cooperation with the Global School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM) at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Both the ICPSR Summer Program and GSERM share a common goal: To provide the methodological skills and instruction that facilitate high-caliber research and analysis on critical problems, events, and behaviors. The cooperation between the two programs is evidence of the important role that methodological training plays in social science research, teaching, and practice around the world.