http://info.pop.psu.edu Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:38:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Researchers at Virginia Tech have created a synthetic US population based on Census data, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus. The model runs on a supercomputer and assigns demographic characteristics to fake individuals based on real data, as reported in IEEE Spectrum. The model could be used to ... http://info.pop.psu.edu/2008/12/10/virginia-tech-researchers-create-synthetic-us-population/ The National Science Foundation has posted a video interview with Dr. Joel E. Cohen describing mathematical models he has developed to predict human migration patterns. http://info.pop.psu.edu/2008/11/17/using-mathematical-models-to-predict-global-migration/ Comprehensive state education data warehouses, such as Florida's, are a gold mine for education researchers, but ensuring student privacy will be a major challenge. The Chronicle of Higher Education explores the issues. http://info.pop.psu.edu/2008/05/05/education-researchers-see-opportunities-and-challenges-in-state-databases/ The PRI Library has received announcement of the C2S Summer Biomarkers Institute, to be held June 9-11 at the Evanston, IL campus of the Northwestern University. http://info.pop.psu.edu/2008/04/03/center-to-society-c2s-summer-biomarkers-institute/ Upcoming Brown Bag Discussions: What is This Thing Called Plagiarism and How do I Avoid It? March 26, 2008 Noon-1:00 p.m. 102 Kern Graduate Building The Ins and Outs of Internet Research April 9, 2008 Noon-1:00 p.m. 102 Kern Graduate Building Upcoming IRB Workshop: The IRB Process Made Easy April 3, 2008 12:00 – 1:30pm 102 Kern Graduate Building * Pre-registration required Most events are ... http://info.pop.psu.edu/2008/03/20/research-training-from-penn-states-office-for-research-protections/ Penn State's Office for Research Protections has announced its fall Research Integrity Brown Bag Series. Sessions focus on issues of ethics and integrity in research and are open to the public. All sessions are from noon to 1 p.m. in 102 Kern Graduate Building, and are available via live Web stream, ... http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/08/30/research-integrity-brown-bag-series/ A research team at the at Oregon State University is giving drug tests to entire cities by measuring amounts of drugs in wastewater streams. The findings could be used to track the spread of dangerous drugs like methamphetamines. Jennifer Field, the study's lead researcher, said the findings indicate that self-report ... http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/08/22/city-wide-drug-testing/ The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, "one of the longest and most respected sociological investigations ever undertaken," began as a survey of high school seniors' post-graduation plans in 1957. Fifty years later, the study continues to examine how lifetime experiences affect quality of life as people age. This summer, WLS researchers are ... http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/08/03/wisonsin-longitudinal-study-celebrates-50-years/ Adil E. Shamoo calls for less strict regulation of low-risk human subjects research in a column in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Shamoo, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, says that current requirements create unnecessary roadblocks. Among the examples of low-risk ... http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/08/02/should-low-risk-research-be-deregulated/ Measurement Error and Misclassification: A Comparison of Survey and Register Data by Arie Kapteyn and Jelmer Yeb Ypma (RAND working paper WR-283-1) examines survey and administrative data for reliability, and challenges the notion that administrative data represents “the truth”. http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/05/09/camparing-survey-and-administrative-data/