Look for Kimberly Love Nalder's article, "The Paradox of Prop. 13: The Informed Public’s Misunderstanding of California’s Third Rail," forthcoming in the California Journal of Politics and Policy.

• Fall: Sacramento (Friday, October 1)
• Winter: Channel Islands (TBA)
• Spring: San Jose (TBA)

The SSRIC Student Research Conference was held on Friday, April 30, 2010 at Cal Poly Pomona. There were 33 presentations made by a total of 37 students from 9 campuses. For more information, visit

Check out the new (~8 minute) video that Ed Nelson has prepared providing an introduction to the SSRIC and an overview of what we do.

The SSRIC Student Research Conference will take place on Friday, April 30, 2010 at Cal Poly Pomona. For more information, visit http://www.ssric.org/participate/src.

• Workshops (To schedule a workshop on your campus, contact Ed Nelson, CSU Fresno, or your campus representative)

• Workshops (To schedule a workshop on your campus, contact Ed Nelson, CSU Fresno, or your campus representative)

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the world's largest archive of digital social science data, is now accepting applications for its annual summer internship program. ICPSR is a unit within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. ICPSR's data are the foundation for thousands of research articles, reports, and books. Findings from these data are put to use by scholars, policy analysts, policy makers, the media, and the public.

• October 30 (3 - 6 pm)
• November 7 (9 am - noon)

• SSRIC Newsletter. The inaugural issue of the SSRIC Newsletter is now available at http://www.ssric.org/newsletters
• In addition to our modules and exercises, we offer a number of standalone instructional data subsets. See http://www.ssric.org/node/361