In this video, John Kubale, Research Assistant Professor in ISR’s Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), explores the ways that researchers can leverage new sources of data to understand disease transmission, and the importance of preserving essential data. I’m an infectious disease epidemiologist and as faculty in ICPSR, I am really focused on… Continue reading Real world impact of ISR research: John Kubale
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Summer Training Partnership Delivers Measurable Impact After First Year
NORFOLK, Va. – After a landmark first year, Norfolk State University (NSU) and the University of Michigan’s Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program are already seeing the ripple effects of their new partnership. By hosting hands-on statistics and data analysis workshops on the NSU campus, the initiative has opened doors for… Continue reading Summer Training Partnership Delivers Measurable Impact After First Year
HPD Announces Historic Partnership with University of Michigan to Complete the 2026 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey
New partnership underscores HPD’s commitment to high-quality data collection, privacy protection, and fairness. For years, the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey has informed the work of the City of New York and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development: to ensure that each and every New Yorker has a safe, affordable place to… Continue reading HPD Announces Historic Partnership with University of Michigan to Complete the 2026 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey
ICPSR Director Maggie Levenstein named 2024 AAAS Fellow
ANN ARBOR–ICPSR Director Maggie Levenstein will be recognized as a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), “for distinguished contributions to industrial organization and historical economics, especially information systems, competition dynamics, cartels, and antitrust policies, as well as systematic improvements to national social science data policies.” Levenstein is among the 471… Continue reading ICPSR Director Maggie Levenstein named 2024 AAAS Fellow
FATE: Unique Material Culture Collaboration Brings together the Arts and Social Sciences
ANN ARBOR–A new, publicly accessible dataset now provides unprecedented access to data on the material culture of clothing and textiles from 1700 to 2019 across all seven continents.The release of the data from an innovative project called “The Material Culture: Clothing and Textiles Metadata: Practices and Methods for the Arts and Sciences, Global, 1700-2024,” is… Continue reading FATE: Unique Material Culture Collaboration Brings together the Arts and Social Sciences
New Research Sheds Light on the US Shift toward Smaller Families
The national fertility rate has been in steady decline in recent decades, but the fundamental transition from high to low fertility in the United States occurred between the mid-nineteenth century and the 1930s. New research just out in Demography sheds new light on how fertility decline began in late nineteenth-century America, sparking the historic shift… Continue reading New Research Sheds Light on the US Shift toward Smaller Families
New Tools Guide NIH Researchers through a Changing Data Landscape
ANN ARBOR–Researchers navigating the recent changes in the NIH Data Management and Sharing policy on data sharing now have several new online resources from ICPSR, including webinar recordings and a resource page with guidance for the University of Michigan and broader research community. Below are some key questions and answers about how ICPSR is providing… Continue reading New Tools Guide NIH Researchers through a Changing Data Landscape