Services at CPC
The center devotes its resources to fostering communication, innovation, and high-quality research. Extensive synergies occur across units to provide efficient, professional support to CPC scholars, trainees, and research staff. Details about each service unit are provided by the following links.
- Administrative Services:
- Financial and Human Resource Management: centerwide financial issues, accounting and fiscal management of research projects, travel services, and human resource administration
- Administrative Support: clerical services, center database management, supply orders, conference room scheduling, parking assignments, facilities management
- General Services: mailroom operations, courier services, photocopier maintenance, furniture moving
- Proposal & Project Services: assistance in identifying funding opportunities, proposal development for investigators submitting through the center, post-award management services
- Research Services:
- Research Programming & Data Support Services: services for data-related activities of research projects, including data entry, data cleaning, data management, data dissemination, and statistical analyses
- Spatial Analysis: geographic information technology applications, spatial database design and development, spatial modeling, satellite image processing and analysis, global positioning systems data collection, and cartographic production
- Library & Research Translation: research and library resources, services, and assistance
- Publications & Graphics: design support for presentations, proposals, publications, posters, and editing services for population-related scholarly writing
- Computer Systems & User Service: computer systems administration, user support, and security
- Web: custom web application programming, web site design and implementation, web application administration
- Consultative:
- Spatial Analysis: advice for CPC researchers on incorporating spatial analysis into population research projects
- Statistical: advice for CPC researchers on developing research designs, selecting statistical methods, and interpreting statistical findings
The center provides a number of research tools to the population research community. For more information, please see Research Tools.


