Bicycle-safety simulator at MacLean Hall
awards
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Frank N. Magid Associates Undergraduate Prize for Social Science Research Excellence
This annual competition is designed to encourage and cultivate the qualities necessary to prosper in the expanding world of applied social science, a world that places a premium on the ability to analyze and synthesize data, communicate clearly across a variety of disciplinary boundaries, deal with complex problems, and present them in ways that corporate representatives, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and the general public can understand and use. Eligible students will be expected to produce a major empirical research paper addressing a policy-relevant social science problem. The paper may use any combination of empirical social science data (surveys, ethnographic interviews, focus groups, statistical and/or historical archives, media-based data, or experiments). Students are expected to use analytical techniques appropriate for the complexity of the data and research problem, but the research paper should be written for a generally-educated lay readership. Direct all questions and inquiries to Kevin T. Leicht, Director, Social Science Research Center (Kevin-leicht@uiowa.eduor 353-2813) or visit http://www.magid.com/.