Fwd: Update on MEPS Data Users' Workshop

AHRQ will be conducting a virtual MEPS-HC Data Users' Workshop on April 14-15, 2020. This workshop will consist of lectures designed to provide a general overview of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/ along with lectures on MEPS-HC survey design, health care utilization, expenditures, medical conditions; and statistical issues and challenges researchers face while analyzing MEPS-HC data. There will also be a session in which sample SAS as well as STATA exercises will be demonstrated. A Q&A session will be scheduled at the end of each day, where participants will have opportunity to ask questions pertaining to their specific research questions. Instructions on how to register and other important information will be available by end of the week on the Workshops & Events page of the MEPS Web site at: http://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/about_meps/workshops_events.jsp. For any other questions, please e-mail workshopinfo@ahrq.hhs.gov.

Fwd: Online resources for teaching with IPUMS

IPUMS is a great resource with piles of secondary data of the sort that Adam Atherly talked about at seminar last week. They have oodles of data from the US Census, the National Health Interview Study, global health, environment and population data, the US Time Use Survey and more.  See https://ipums.org/projects for details.

-Ben Littenberg

Dear Benjamin, We recognize that many things are changing as the world responds to the COVID-19 outbreak. Like many of you, the IPUMS team has been setting up remote workstations in our home offices, living rooms, and kitchens. Thank you for your patience as we adapt our systems to coordinate the provision of IPUMS data and services from our new satellite offices instead of our centralized bunker at the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus. We realize that many IPUMS users are transitioning to alternate instruction methods to support distance learning. We want to bring your attention to existing teaching resources available through IPUMS: introductory webinars, online tutorials for getting started on IPUMS, and data training exercises for many of our projects. We've also created a new category on the IPUMS forum for online learning for you to post questions. We'd like your input. If you teach students, please take a moment to complete a survey to tell us about what additional resources would be most useful to you. Do you have resources to share? Through the survey, you can also upload or share information about the teaching resources you have created using IPUMS data. We will update the teaching resources page with new resources from users and developed by IPUMS staff. Thank you for helping us support users who teach as they transition to new modes of instruction. We hope you stay safe and well, and, as always, use it for good! The IPUMS Team IPUMS.ORG | University of Minnesota Copyright © 2020 University of Minnesota, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: IPUMS 225 19th Ave South Minneapolis, MN 55455

And now for a station break... from the son of Mel Brooks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYMCMKHCV1A

Enjoy!  And stay at home...  Connie 

NOT-DA-20-006: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Mentored Career Development Award in Large-Scale Clinical Study Development and Analysis

This may be of interest to some of you. 

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-DA-20-006.html 

Student Research Conference Registration

Registration for the Student Research Conference (SRC) is NOW OPEN until March 6. The first 200 registrants will receive a free SRC reusable straw and portable container! To apply, you need only an abstract, a faculty mentor, and an idea of your availability on April 16, the day of the SRC. Submit your abstract online. 

All students who register for the conference will be accepted to participate, and with faculty and some prospective employers present, it will be an excellent chance to hone presentation and networking skills. Research conducted in 200-level courses can also be presented if it is independent of the professor, making this an opportunity to highlight the impactful research being conducted in the humanities and social sciences. If a student has not completed their research, they are still able to present.

The SRC is attended by members of the UVM and greater Burlington community, and it spotlights hundreds of students sharing their original work with fellow presenters and attendees. Taking over the fourth floor of the Davis Center, the SRC gives visitors the opportunity to explore the creative lounge, which has been home to creative works including music, film, and virtual reality simulations. Students with poster presentations will fill the Grand Maple Ballroom, where conference attendees will be able to speak directly to student researchers about their scholarship while building connections. If you choose to share your original scholarship through an oral or paper presentations, those will be scheduled throughout the day in conference rooms in the Davis Center. The SRC schedule will be posted in mid-March.