The staff members of CDE provide specialized, high-quality services to the center’s faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and visiting scholars to advance interdisciplinary social science research on campus.
If you need assistance in any of the following areas, please reach out to the contact listed.
Administrative Services
- Building access and COVID occupancy compliance
- Demography Seminar coordination
- Google Groups email list maintenance
- Office assignments and keys
- Purchasing
- Shipping and mailing
- Travel coordination and reimbursement
- Visitor coordination (paperwork, lodging, etc.)
Contact: Mary Lynn Dombrowski
Financial Services
Contact: Al Schultz
Communications & Events
- Weekly digest and newsletters
- News (grant awards, published articles, honors, etc.)
- Social media
- Webmaster duties
- Publications
- Large event/conference planning
Contact: Grace Herndon
Computing and Statistical Services
CDE receives computing services from the Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC)
- Computing resources (Winstat, WinSilo, Linstat, LinSilo, Condor, CondorSilo, Flash)
- Data Storage
- Secure computing environment for sensitive data (Silo)
- Statistical and other software (including, but not limited to Stata, R, SAS, Python, SPSS, HLM, NVivo, ATLAS.ti)
- Statistical consulting
- Training and Knowledge Base on statistical computing
- Help Desk
- Desktop support and purchasing recommendations
- SSCC accounts and passwords
- University networks and remote computing
- Computer Lab (desktops, printers, projector, and scanner) and Computer Classroom
- IT security
Contact: SSCC Helpdesk
Data Access and Management
- Data acquisition
- Data archiving
- Reference questions pertaining to the DISC collection (major surveys from a variety of distributors, including ICPSR, Roper, Datastream, U.S. government data, and locally produced archival datasets)
Contact: VACANT, please contact Aaron Crandall with questions
Financial Reporting
- Post-award administration
Contact: Joe Wright
Grant Preparation and Administration
- Budget consultation and preparation
Contact: Aaron Crandall
- Proposal preparation and submission
- Assistance with NIH/NSF biosketches
- Assistance with Current and Pending/Other Support documents
- Management of JIT requests
- Grant progress reports (RPPR)
Contact: Joe Wright and Aaron Crandall
Public Access Compliance
- NIH public access policy and compliance
Contact: Grace Herndon
Human Resources
- Payroll and benefits
- Graduate student appointments
- Student Hourly appointments
- Honorary (Zero Dollar) appointments
Contact: Al Schultz
Working Groups
- Working Groups administration
Contact: Mary Lynn Dombrowski
- Working Groups communications
Contact: Grace Herndon
Restricted Data
- Access to restricted data
- Data licensing and protection plans
- Institutional Review Board
- Secure data rooms
Contact: VACANT, please contact Aaron Crandall with questions
Working Papers
- Working paper numbers and posting to website
- Access to archived working papers
Contact: Aaron Crandall