Sci-Tech Core-Maryland Population Research Center

科学和技术核心（STC）旨在为MPRC成员提供计算资源 以及进行尖端人口研究所需的技术支持。STC旨在提供 为教师提供的服务，而不是由他们在校园里的个人单位提供的，包括访问安全数据 用于限制性和机密数据集的飞地，用于数据传播和存档的托管网站，以及 提供统计方案编制和数据管理方面的培训和咨询服务。通过其 计算机实验室，STC提供访问专业软件，可能无法提供给研究人员在 他们的学术部门核心还提供了一个运行计算密集型作业的平台。 STC通过允许教职员工和外部附属机构共享大型数据集来促进协作 通过安全存储区域网络。在下一个赠款周期，STC预计将扩大对以下方面的支持： 使用受限数据集，为此维护两个安全数据飞地并提供远程安全数据 计算和安全数据存储服务。科技委还将在促进使用 最近在马里兰州大学建立的联邦统计研究数据中心（FSRDC）。的 FSRDC是最令人兴奋的大学范围内的举措之一，使研究人员能够访问高度限制的 社会、人口和健康相关数据源，包括将个人与行政管理联系起来的数据集 记录STC将在传播有关FSRDC可用数据的信息方面发挥关键作用 通过在未来五年内计划召开的三次会议，并通过协助研究人员应用 访问受限数据。MPRC工作人员还将提供正式和非正式的方案编制支助， 有兴趣使用FSRDC的教职员工。评估其满足教师需求的有效性， 在下一个资助周期，STC将收集有关其服务使用情况的详细信息，并对 每两年一次STC由社会人口学家Andres Villarreal（社会学）领导 具有丰富的统计和计算方法知识。

The Scientific and Technical Core (STC) aims to provide MPRC associates with the computational resources and technical support necessary to conduct cutting-edge population research. The STC is designed to deliver services to faculty that are not offered by their individual units on campus, including access to secure data enclaves for restricted and confidential datasets, hosting web sites for data dissemination and archiving, and offering training and consultation services in statistical programming and data management. Through its computer lab, the STC provides access to specialized software that may not be available to researchers in their academic departments. The core also offers a platform on which to run computationally-intensive jobs. The STC facilitates collaboration by allowing faculty associates and external affiliates to share large datasets through a secure storage area network. In the next grant cycle, the STC anticipates expanding its support for the use of restricted datasets for which it maintains two secure data enclaves and provides remote secure-data computing and secure data storage services. The STC will also play a critical role in promoting the use of the recently-established Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) at the University of Maryland. The FSRDC is one of the most exciting university-wide initiatives that gives researchers access to highly-restricted social, demographic and health-related data sources, including datasets linking individuals to administrative records. The STC will play a key role in disseminating information about the data available at the FSRDC through three planned conferences over the next five years, and by assisting researchers in their application for access to the restricted data. MPRC staff will also provide formal and informal programming support to faculty associates interested in using the FSRDC. To evaluate its effectiveness in meeting faculty demands in the next grant cycle, the STC will collect detailed information on usage of its services, and conduct surveys of all associates every two years. The STC is directed by Andres Villarreal (Sociology), a social demographer with extensive knowledge of statistical and computational methods.