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CSDA Colloquium: “Agent-based models as agents of change? Simulations to reduce violence and its consequences”
Melissa Tracy, University at Albany Click here for the flyer
Find out more »CSDA Spring Workshop: Efficient Programming with SAS – Using Macros and the Output Delivery System (ODS)
Instructor: Ajay Yesupriya, M.P.H. Center for Social and Demographic Analysis This workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to the SAS Macro language and the Output Delivery System (ODS). Participants will learn about how these tools can be used 1) to reduce the amount of programming required to complete analyses and 2) to output statistics of interest to external files. A basic knowledge of SAS will be assumed. Click here for the programs that were used in this workshop. Click…
Find out more »Accessing Restricted National Center for Health Statistics Data through the Research Data Centers
Instructor: Ajay Yesupriya, MPH, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis (CSDA) This brown bag workshop will highlight the restricted NCHS datasets that are available as well as the procedures for accessing these data and conducting analyses through the New York Federal Statistical RDCs. Click here for the presentation slide Click here for the flyer.
Find out more »CSDA Colloquium: “Manufacturing Gender Inequality in the New Economy: High School Training for Work in Blue-Collar Communities” April Sutton, Cornell University
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Find out more »CSDA Colloquium: “Target-based Approach to Determine Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Crime” Shiguo Jiang, University at Albany
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Find out more »GPSS Lecture Series-The Impact of Racism on Black Homeownership: A Socio-Historical Analysis, 1850-2016
The newly formed, Graduate Population Studies Society (GPSS) is hosting their first event, a presentation by Professor Hayward Horton, The Impact of Racism on Black Homeownership: A Socio-Historical Analysis, 1850-2016, on Friday (3/9) at 2pm in the conference room (AS 357)
Find out more »CSDA Colloquium: “Boundary Claims and the Emergence of New Categories: Asian and Hispanic Panethnicity Compared” by Dina G. Okamoto
Past research on group boundaries and boundary making has typically focused on the broader conditions
that brighten or blur boundaries. Dr. Okamoto is interested in how emergent ethnoracial boundaries are
deployed and substantiated. By analyzing the Asian and Hispanic cases, she further examines how
pioneering social movement publications in the 1970s developed early claims about the boundaries of
panethnicity.
CSDA Colloquium: “Leveraging Genetics to Inform Social Science” by Dalton Conley
Dr. Conley examines the complicated ways genes and environment interact to affect poverty, inequality,
and social mobility