Bicycle-safety simulator at MacLean Hall
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Frank N. Magid Associates Undergraduate Prize for Social Science Research Excellence - Due March 14, 2008
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/.