The staff members of CDHA provide specialized, high-quality services to the center’s faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and visiting scholars to advance interdisciplinary social science research on campus.
If you need assistance in any of the following areas, please reach out to the contact listed.
Building and Office Space Services
- Building access, office assignments and keys
- Building work orders
Contact: Sarah Dietz
Financial Services
- Travel Reimbursement
- Purchasing
- Shipping and mailing
Contact: Jenny Hammes
Human Resources
- Payroll and benefits
- Graduate student appointments
- Student Hourly appointments
- Honorary (Zero Dollar) appointments
Contact: Derek Husar
Communications
- Weekly digest and newsletters
- News (grant awards, published articles, honors, etc.)
- Social media
- Webmaster duties
Contact: Amanda Murphy
Events
- Large event/conference planning
- Demography seminar coordination
Contact: Sarah Dietz
Grant Preparation and Administration
- Budget consultation and preparation
- Proposal preparation and submission
- Assistance with NIH/NSF biosketches
- Assistance with Current and Pending/Other Support documents
- Management of JIT requests
- Grant progress reports (RPPR)
Contact: Amanda Murphy
Post Award Support
- Post-award financial reporting
- Grant close out (FFR)
Contact: Eunji Kang
Public Access Compliance
- NIH public access policy and compliance
- Publications (PMCID, PubMed assistance)
Contact: Sarah Dietz
Data Access and Management
- Data acquisition
- Data archiving
- Reference questions pertaining to the archived DISC collection (major surveys from a variety of distributors, including ICPSR, Roper, Datastream, U.S. government data, and locally produced archival datasets)
Contact: Sarah Dietz
Restricted Data
- Access to restricted data
- Data licensing and protection plans
- Institutional Review Board
Contact: Sarah Dietz
Computing and Statistical Services
CDE receives computing services from the Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC)
- Computing resources (Winstat, WinSilo, Linstat, LinSilo, Condor, CondorSilo, Flash)
- Data Storage
- Secure computing environment for sensitive data (Silo)
- Statistical and other software (including, but not limited to Stata, R, SAS, Python, SPSS, HLM, NVivo, ATLAS.ti)
- Statistical consulting
- Training and Knowledge Base on statistical computing
- Help Desk
- Desktop support and purchasing recommendations
- SSCC accounts and passwords
- University networks and remote computing
- Computer Lab (desktops, printers, projector, and scanner) and Computer Classroom
- IT security
Contact: SSCC Helpdesk