December 10, 2013
William Vega, USC provost professor and executive director of the USC Roybal Institute, has been appointed to the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) council.
ICPSR is an international consortium of more than 700 academic institutions and research organizations that provides leadership and training in data access, curation and methods of analysis for the social science research community. It maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences and hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism and other fields.