NCRN Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 1

Jun 06, 2016

Research Profile : University of Michigan

What if you could get better indicators in real time by analyzing social media? That is one of many exciting areas that the University of Michigan’s research node is exploring. Read more here.

Abowd to Receive 2016 Julius Shiskin Award

John Abowd, Edmund Ezra Day Professor at Cornell University and currently Associate Director for Research and Methodology and Chief Scientist at the Census Bureau, has been selected to receive the 2016 Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics. The award recognizes original and unusually important contributions in the development of economic statistics or in the use of statistics in interpreting the economy. Read more here.

NCRN Spring 2016 Meeting

The NCRN Principal Investigators and Senior Researchers, as well as a large number of the nodes’ graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, met at the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington D.C. on May 9-10, 2016 for a lively and varied meeting. Read more here.

Node News Here is the latest news from the eight research nodes in the NCRN research community. Read more here.

Publications Discover the most recent additions to publications produced by the research nodes within NCRN. See the list here.

Presentations Here is a list of the most recent presentations made by the NCRN research nodes. You can find more events on the website.

Melissa Colbeth Joins NCRN Coordinating Office Read more here.

Levenstein named director of ISR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Read more here.

Changes at the NCRN Coordinating Office Executive Committee Read more here.