Graduate Student Involvement Committee

Community

• MPC Seminar Series

Announcement: Vincent Louis and Sarah Flood will be available to talk with graduate students after their Seminar Series talk on February 18.

• MPC memberships

Outreach

• Office hours

The GSIC holds office hours at the MPC to assist graduate students and others at the University who need assistance with MPC data. 

If you need assistance, please contact the GSIC help desk and we will match you with MPC graduate students or postdocs familiar with the dataset with which you need help.

Training

• IPUMS Graduate Student Workshops held at the MPC

MPC graduate students hold FREE IPUMS data workshops annually to introduce U of M graduate students to the data available at the MPC, demonstrate how to get the data, and provide helpful tips for working with IPUMS data. Our next workshop will be held late in summer of 2008. Watch for more information.

• Research assistantships and postdoctoral associate positions at the MPC
• Graduate minors in population studies