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Ginther lands grant to study why women leave sciences

Donna Ginther, professor of economics and Director of IPSR's Center for Economic and Business Analysis, has received a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to research the influences on women in biomedical sciences. Read full press release at link below.
Link(s): http://www.oread.ku.edu/~oread/2009/november/2/stories/ginther.shtml

2008 Population Estimates by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin

The latest national, state, and county population estimates by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin and Puerto Rico Commonwealth and Puerto Rico Municipios by age and sex - for July 1, 2008 - were released by the U.S. Census Bureau on May 14, 2009. These estimates for Kansas and it's counties can be found at the link below.
Link(s): http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/ksdata/census/estpop/asrh08/

KU economist, doctoral student win Sloan Foundation grant

LAWRENCE — A doctoral student in economics from the University of Kansas and her dissertation adviser have received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study the impact of highly skilled immigrants on the U.S. economy.
Link(s): http://www.news.ku.edu/2009/may/13/economy.shtml

LAS792 - Managing Research Data in the Social Sciences

This 2- or 3-credit hour graduate level course offered in the Summer 2009 term is designed to teach the skills necessary to read, reorganize, transform, clean, archive, and export simple or complex data. The primary tool used in the class is the SAS system. Structured Query Language (SQL) in both SAS and Microsoft Access receives a strong emphasis.
File(s): http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/new/AboutLAS792Summer2009.pdf

New Population Estimates

The U.S. Census Bureau released the 2008 population estimates for counties in Kansas on March 18, 2009. Please check the Kansas Data Archive to create custom tables, graphs, or maps with these new data.
Link(s): http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/ksdata/index.shtml#ksa