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: A. Rebekah Turner
Communications
- Weekly event announcements
- News (grant awards, published articles, honors, etc.)
- Newsletters
- Social media
- Website updates
Contact: Nichole Barnes
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: Charlie Fiss
Financial Reporting
- Post-award administration
Contact: Janet Clear
Grant Preparation and Administration
- Budget consultation and preparation
Contact: Janet Clear
- 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: Susan Vial
Public Access Compliance
- NIH public access policy and compliance
Contact: Nichole Barnes
Human Resources
- Payroll and benefits
- Graduate student appointments
- Student Hourly appointments
- Honorary (Zero Dollar) appointments
Contact: A. Rebekah Turner
Working Groups
- Working Groups administration
Contact: Mary Lynn Dombrowski
Restricted Data
- Access to restricted data
- Data licensing and protection plans
- Institutional Review Board
- Secure data rooms
Contact: Charlie Fiss
Working Papers
- Working paper numbers and posting to website
- Access to archived working papers
Contact: Nichole Barnes