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, office assignments and keys
- Purchasing
- Shipping and mailing
- Demography Seminar coordination
- Visitor and travel coordination (including reimbursement)
Contact: Mary Lynn Dombrowski
Financial Services
Contact: VACANT, please contact Aaron Crandall with questions
Human Resources
- Payroll and benefits
- Graduate student appointments
- Student Hourly appointments
- Honorary (Zero Dollar) appointments
Contact: VACANT, please contact Aaron Crandall with questions
Communications & Events
- Weekly digest and newsletters
- News (grant awards, published articles, honors, etc.)
- Social media
- Webmaster duties
- Publications
- Large event/conference planning
Contact: VACANT, please contact Aaron Crandall with questions
Working Groups
Contact: Mary Lynn Dombrowski
Grant Preparation and Administration
- Budget consultation and preparation
- 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: Amanda Murphy
Financial Reporting
- Post-award administration
Contact: Eunji Kang
Public Access Compliance
- NIH public access policy and compliance
Contact: Sarah Dietz
Data Access and Management
- Data acquisition
- Data archiving
- Reference questions pertaining to the archived DISC collection (major surveys from a variety of distributors, including ICPSR, Roper, Datastream, U.S. government data, and locally produced archival datasets)
Contact: Sarah Dietz
Restricted Data
- Access to restricted data
- Data licensing and protection plans
- Institutional Review Board
Contact: Sarah Dietz
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