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SUMMARY:Professional Development Series: The Stark Realities and Ethical Challenges of Transparent and Reproducible Population Research (CANCELLED)
DESCRIPTION:Panelists: \nCecilia Menjivar holds the Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. She specializes in immigration\, gender\, family dynamics\, social networks\, religious institutions\, and broad conceptualizations of violence. She focuses on two main areas: the impacts of the immigration regime and laws on immigrants and the effects of living in contexts of multisided violence on individuals\, especially women. Her work on immigration concerns mainly the United States\, where she focuses on Central American immigrants\, whereas her work on violence is centered on Latin America\, mostly Central America. Menjívar is interested in how state power manifests itself through legal regimes and formal institutions and bureaucracies to shape microprocesses in everyday life. \nRandall Kuhn  is a demographer and sociologist focused on the social determinants of health among vulnerable populations. He is an expert in survey design\, longitudinal analysis and counterfactual research design. In the field of migration and health\, Kuhn has designed new approaches to estimating the impact of migration on health. In global health\, Kuhn leads a 35-year longitudinal study of the impact of health and development programs in Bangladesh. In the area of homelessness\, Kuhn conducted some of the earliest quantitative research on health and substance use risks among chronically homeless adults. He co-authored recent reports on homelessness and the coronavirus outbreak for the National Alliance to End Homelessness and on health and homelessness in Los Angeles. \nFelipe Goncalves is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. His research applies tools from labor and public economics to understand issues in policing\, crime\, and education. He received a BA in economics-mathematics from Columbia University and a PhD in economics from Princeton University. Prior to joining UCLA\, he worked at the New York Crime Lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-2/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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SUMMARY:Zack W. Almquist\, University of Washington (CANCELLED)
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Zack W. Almquist is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology\, Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics\, and Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. Before coming to UW in 2020\, Prof. Almquist held positions as a Research Scientist at Facebook\, Inc and as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Statistics at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Almquist is a recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Methodology’s Leo Goodman Award. He is also a recipient of the NSF’s CAREER Award and the ARO’s Young Investigator Program Award. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology. His research centers on the development and application of mathematical\, computational and statistical methodology to problems and theory of social networks\, demography\, homelessness\, and environmental action and governance. \nA Qualitative and Quantitative PIT Count using Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS): Understanding and Counting Unsheltered Homelessness in King County \nAbstract: Traditionally\, unsheltered Point in Time (PIT) Counts are the result of volunteers conducting an in-person head-count of individuals experiencing homelessness on a single night. This resource-intensive method is widely understood to be an undercount. It also fails to capture essential qualitative data about what people living unsheltered experience and need. \nThis past spring\, the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (RHA)\, in coordination with Professor Zack W. Almquist (University of Washington) and Lived Experience Coalition (LEC)\, took a novel approach to the PIT. The RHA conducted the 2022 unsheltered PIT count as a combined qualitative interview process and quantitative survey over the course of a month. The respondent selection for both the qualitative and quantitative surveys followed a Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) protocol. RDS provides a sampling strategy for estimating size and percentages of hard-to-reach populations that lack an administrative sampling frame. \nDuring this seminar\, I will provide an overview of the RHA partnership effort\, and how we executed this novel approach to the PIT. I will review the history of RDS as a means of sampling vulnerable populations\, and I will cover the implementation of the sampling  and estimation strategies based on the RHA RDS sample. Finally\, I will review the demographics provided to HUD\, and what we learned from conducting the RDS sample for the PIT count\, and how it can and should affect future PIT counts going forwards. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/zack-w-almquist-university-of-washington/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221028T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221028T132000
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SUMMARY:Ray Lovett\, Australian National University
DESCRIPTION:Title: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Data Development in Australia: Supporting Our Nation(s) Agenda. \nAuthor(s) and presenters: Ray  Lovett (Wongaibon/Ngiyampaa)\, Jan Chapman (Taungurung)\, Makayla Brinckley (Wiradjuri)\, Nadine Hunt (Iamalaig and Kaanju). \nIndigenous Peoples worldwide lack opportunity to develop and implement their community development agendas from their cultural framework. Instead\, governments and others impose what they conceive as development. This constitutes a modern form of settler-colonialism which at a minimum has the potential to be ineffective and at worst is harmful to Indigenous Peoples. This presentation will highlight how Indigenous community driven processes in Australia were applied to develop a national level cohort study and community-based census\, and how these are being used to influence Australian policy. We will also highlight how\, at a community level\, these data tools can be used for community development aspirations. \nBiographies:  \nDr. Raymond Lovett BN\, RN\, BHSc\, MAE\, PhD is a Senior Research Fellow with the Epidemiology for Policy and Practice group at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health\, The Australian National University. He also holds an adjunct Fellowship at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in the Indigenous Social and Cultural Wellbeing group. Ray is an Aboriginal (Ngiyampaa/Wongaibon) epidemiologist with extensive experience in health services research\, large scale data analysis for public health policy development and evaluation. \nJan Chapman\, BPubPol is Aboriginal (Taungurung) from Australia. She graduated from the University of Tasmania with a degree in Public Policy and Social Ecology. Jan is the Mayi Kuwayu Study Manager in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program at the Australian National University. She has extensive Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy experience across Indigenous Chronic Disease and for the last ten years she has managed all Mayi Kuwayu data development and data collection\, including through the extensive community networks. Together with Nadine\, Jan is currently assisting one community to embed their own data systems and processes aligned with their community development agenda. \nMakayla-May Brinckley is a Wiradjuri woman with family ties to Cootamundra\, NSW. After graduating from Psychology Honours from the ANU in 2019\, she worked as a research assistant in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program in the Research School of Population Health. Makayla is now an Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program\, with much of her work based within Mayi Kuwayu: the National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing. Makayla is passionate about holistic health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people\, and taking a strengths-based and decolonial approach to health and wellbeing. \nNadine Hunt is an Iamalaig and Kaanju woman and a Community Researcher\, based in Cairns with travel throughout Far North Queensland. Nadine has spent the last six years working with the Indigenous Marathon Foundation in Canberra\, developing a national grassroots running program in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities. Nadine continues her volunteer work as a running coach with the Cairns Deadly Runners\, and has recently begun a Bachelor of Business degree through James Cook University. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ray-lovett-australian-national-university/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Workshop: CCPR Computing Resources Overview
DESCRIPTION:Workshop: CCPR Computing Resources Overview \nInstructor: Matt Lahmann\nInstructor: Mike Tzen \nThis workshop has two halves. In the first half\, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates\, including it’s remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half\, we’ll get participants signed up for hoffman2 and TS2. Once signed up\, you’ll have state of the art hardware resources and most software you’ll ever need for demographic research. In the second half\, we’ll walk through how to use these computing resources\, identifying what resource is better to use for different computing project scenarios.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-statcomp-fall22/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221012T133000
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Killewald\, Harvard University
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. She uses quantitative methods to study inequality in the contemporary United States. In one line of research\, Killewald investigates the gendered intersection of work and family. In another\, she analyzes how wealth inequality persists across generations and the role of intergenerational processes in the racial wealth gap. \nKillewald’s research has been published in journals including American Sociological Review\, Demography\, Social Forces\, and Journal of Marriage and Family. She is the recipient of the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the ASA Section on Inequality\, Poverty\, and Mobility and has received article awards from the ASA Section on Family and the ASA Section on Sociology of Population. \nKillewald received her PhD in Public Policy and Sociology from the University of Michigan in 2011. Prior to her appointment at Harvard\, she was a researcher at Mathematica. \nTitle: Can Changing Family Demographics Help Explain the Narrowing Gender Wage Gap? \nAbstract: We argue that changing family demography can help explain the narrowing gender pay gap in the United States since 1980. To understand this\, we introduce the concept of “wedge characteristics” — characteristics differently associated with wages for women compared to men. While prior analyses often spotlight how convergence in men’s and women’s human capital can narrow the gender pay gap\, wedge characteristics imply that changes in the family-demographic composition of the labor force can also alter the gender pay gap. Gender pay gaps are larger among the married than the unmarried and among parents than the childless\, suggesting that declines in marriage and fertility since 1980 can help explain gender pay convergence. We find that changes 1980-2018 in marriage and fertility alone explain about a quarter of the gender convergence in pay among full-time employees and explain 14 percent net of changes in human capital. We further show that these results are largely driven by compositional change and do not require gender convergence in family-demographic traits. Our results also reveal that the pace of family-demographic change was fastest in the 1980s and subsequently slowed\, which\, in conjunction with persistent wage wedges\, helps explain stalled progress toward gender pay parity.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/alexandra-killewald-harvard-university/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221005T120000
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SUMMARY:Feinian Chen\, Johns Hopkins University
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Feinian Chen is Professor of Sociology and faculty affiliate at the Hopkins Population Center at Johns Hopkins University. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 and was trained in social demography at the Carolina Population Center. Her research crosscuts a range of areas in demography\, family sociology\, gender\, aging\, and quantitative methodology. Her main research interests include women’s work and family\, intergenerational relations\, population aging and health. Her work has been published in the American Sociological Review\, Social Forces\, Demography\, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences\, Journal of Health and Social Behavior\, Journal of Marriage and Family\, and Sociological Methods and Research. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Hewlett Foundation. She is actively engaged in research in family transitions\, gender dynamics\, and their health implications in the diverse contexts of China\, India\, the Philippines\, and the U.S. \nReconfiguring Social Disconnectedness and Its Link to Psychological Well-being among Older Adults in Rural China \nAbstract: Using data from 2015 and 2018 waves of the Longitudinal Study of Older Adults in Anhui Province\, China\, we investigated associations between different forms of social disconnectedness (social isolation\, loneliness\, living alone) and psychological well-being of older adults longitudinally. The results showed that social isolation and loneliness were independently associated with psychological well-being\, whereas living alone was not. Different forms of social disconnectedness had additive and interactive effects on psychological well-being of older adults. Those who were exposed to all three forms of social disconnectedness suffered from the lowest level of psychological well-being. Moreover\, the adverse effects of social disconnectedness on psychological well-being were found to be stronger for older women than for older men. The results underscore the necessity to consider multiple forms of social disconnectedness as well as their different combinations in explaining psychological well-being in later life.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/feinian-chen-university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220525T133000
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SUMMARY:Ping Qin\, University of Oslo
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Dr Ping Qin is professor at National Center for Suicide Research and Prevention\, University of Oslo in Norway\, and head of research group for register-based study on suicide and self-harm. Professor Qin has been dedicated to reseach on suicide prevention and psychiatric epidemiology for more than 25 years\, with extensive experience in population studies with data from longitudinal registries\, previously in Denmark and since 2012 in Norway. Her main focus of research has been quantitative investigation on contextual influence of multifactorial exposures on risk for suicidal behavior and follow-up care for people with deliberate self-harm. She has led a number of international collaboration projects. She is the co-chair of 2021 IASR/AFSP International Summit on Suicide Reseach\, a founding co-chair of the Special Interest Group on Suicide and Self-harm in Middle-aged Adults\, and past Vice-President of International Association for Suicide Prevention. \nMore information about Dr. Qin may be accessed here. \nSuicide Prevention Research: Searching Evidence from Real-life Data in Routine Registers \nAbstract: Routine population registries offer extensive opportunities for research because the data is recorded uniformly\, precisely and longitudinally\, and often covers a large population. The registries allow research on children as well as adults\, enable follow-up of individual subjects beyond the limited time span\, and ensure cost-efficient and easy access to data of both common and rare exposures.  Starting from the Nordic countries and increasingly more from other parts of the world\, a range of studies have used this valuable source of data to search for meaningful evidence on factors contributing to suicide and suicide prevention. The studies have been able to include a great variety of social and health-related factors to study their contextual effect on risk for suicide and deliberate self-harm\, to disentangle contributing effects of specific exposures\, to examine interactive effects of multiple exposures\, and to assess the effect of clinical treatments and inventions. In this lecture I will discuss strengths and limitations in utilizing register data for suicide research\, and present important findings from our group. Emphases will go to investigation on temporal\, contextual and interactive effects of socioeconomic disadvantages\, adverse experiences and psychiatric and physical illnesses\, and on what follow-up psychiatric care was delivered to patients presenting to hospitals with deliberate self-harm and what effect it had on the patients’ health prospectively.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ping-qin-university-of-oslo/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Kari White\, The University of Texas at Austin
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Kari White is an associate professor in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work and Department of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on evaluating the interrelationship between people’s reproductive health behaviors and outcomes and the health services and policies that shape their access to care. She is the lead investigator of the Texas Policy Evaluation Project – a multidisciplinary group of researchers who have been evaluating the impact of Texas’ legislation and policies related to contraception and abortion for 10 years. Her other recent projects include studies examining factors influencing vasectomy use and people’s access to abortion care in the Deep South. She co-led amicus briefs submitted to the US Supreme Court in June Medical Services v Russo and Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization\, summarizing extensive research on the adverse effects of abortion restrictions to challenge laws in Louisiana and Mississippi\, respectively. \nMore information about Dr. White may be accessed here. \n“Assessing the impact of abortion restrictions in Texas” \nThis presentation will provide an overview of how Dr. White and colleagues have assessed the impact of abortion restrictions in Texas over nearly 10 years. This will include a review of the diverse data and methodological approaches used to assess changes in abortions provided in Texas\, out of state and pregnant people’s experiences accessing abortion care\, as well as rapid response data collection activities. \nA recording of Dr. White’s talk may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/kari-white-the-university-of-texas-at-austin/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Katie Genadek\, University of Colorado\, Boulder & U.S. Census Bureau
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Katie R. Genadek is the Director of the Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage (DCDL) project and an Economist working at the U.S. Census Bureau. She is also a faculty associate at the University of Colorado – Boulder. She previously worked at the University of Minnesota where she managed the IPUMS-USA data project. She is a demographer and economist\, and her research is focused on the relationship between policy\, work\, family\, and time use. \nMore information about Dr. Genadek may be accessed here. \nMotherhood Wage Penalties over the Life-Course in the United States: Results from Administrative Data\nAbstract: Women with children are shown to experience a motherhood wage penalty\, and it is often assumed leaving the labor force for long periods results in the growth of this penalty. However\, there has been limited investigations into the relationship between the length of time out of the labor force and the wage penalties related to it. This study uses administrative data linked to survey data to investigate is the relationship between time out of employment and over the life course for mothers. This unique dataset includes yearly earnings data from 1950s-the present from the Social Security Administration (SSA) for respondents in the Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement data from 2001-present. By linking these two data sets\, along with information on births from SSA\, this longitudinal dataset is one of the most comprehensive panels of women’s fertility\, employment\, and wage trajectories ever created for the United States. We find non-linear impacts of years out of employment on wages for mothers over the life course and will investigate demographic and socio-economic variation in life-cycle wages by years spent out of the labor force.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/katie-genadek-university-of-colorado-boulder/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220504T133000
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SUMMARY:Rasmus Landerso\, Institute of Labor Economics
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Rasmus Landersø is a Research Professor at the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit in Copenhagen\, Denmark. Rasmus has received his BA from the University of Copenhagen and his PhD from Aarhus University\, and he has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago. Rasmus is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Capital\, and he is also an associate member of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD) and the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) working group\, a Research Associate at Center for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM)\, and Research Affiliate at IZA. Rasmus’ research interests include labor economics\, the economics of education\, the economics of crime\, and applied microeconometrics. His research covers both studies of intergenerational mobility\, inequality\, welfare policies\, and spillovers in criminal behavior. \nMore information about Dr. Landerso may be accessed here. \nThe Consequences of Cutting Welfare Benefits for Refugees \nA key concern when introducing welfare reforms to incentivize employment and self-sufficiency is how disincentives from more generous welfare programs\, on the one hand\, should be balanced against the potential adverse consequences of lower income and exposure to poverty for vulnerable groups\, on the other hand. With Europe standing on the verge of an immense humanitarian crisis with large refugee flows\, information on how welfare policies affect refugees’ lives is critical. This presentation will be based on two papers where we study the intended and unintended effects of Denmark’s Start Aid welfare reform from 2002 using administrative register data tracking individuals for up to two decades after the reform’s implementation. While the reform led to substantial short run increases in employment\, the effects quickly faded with local demand being an important mediating factor. In addition\, we document numerous adverse consequences for families that manifest in different outcomes and with different timing according to the age when individuals were first exposed to the large reduction in disposable income induced by the reform. These include increases to crime for adults and adolescents as well as reductions to completed schooling and lower GPA for refugees who were children when they arrived in Denmark. \nThe recording of Dr. Landerso’s talk may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/rasmus-landerso-institute-of-labor-economics/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T133000
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SUMMARY:CCPR 2022 PAA Practice Session
DESCRIPTION:Nathan Hoffmann \nTitle: Strangers in the Homeland? The Academic Performance of Children of Return Migrants in Mexico \nAbstract: The number of return migrants from the U.S. to Mexico has swelled in recent years\, and yet we know little about the academic performance of the over 500\,000 U.S.-born children who have accompanied them. This paper harnesses PISA test score data to compare U.S.-born children of return migrants in Mexico to two groups: Mexican-born students in Mexico\, and students in the U.S. born to Spanish-speaking immigrant parents. Contrary to previous work highlighting the academic struggles faced by children of return migrants\, these adolescents attain higher PISA scores than their Mexican-born counterparts. This advantage persists in models that control for both pre- and post-migration family characteristics. However\, these adolescents’ scores are much lower than similar youths in the U.S.\, and controlling for variables related to immigrant selection barely changes estimates of disparities. Furthermore\, results vary little by possible moderators. Overall\, these findings suggest that these often forcibly displaced adolescents quickly assimilate to the relatively low educational standards of Mexican schools\, highlighting the importance of institutional factors in the assimilation process. \nCaitlin Ahern  \nTitle: When and For Whom is College “Worth” It? The Direct and Indirect Effects of Less-Selective College Enrollment on Economic Insecurity \nAbstract: As high-quality jobs and socioeconomic stability for less-educated workers have diminished\, college is seen as the surest way to avoid negative socioeconomic outcomes. However\, institutional differences suggest that the receipt of these economic benefits may depend not only on whether an individual enrolls in school but also where. In this study\, I use data from the NLSY97 to assess how enrollment in a broad access institution – either a less-selective four-year college or a community college – affects low wage work and unemployment. I further assess the mediating pathway of degree attainment\, and explore heterogeneity by socioeconomic background. Findings indicate that community college enrollment reduces low-wage work and unemployment relative to no college\, and that less-selective four-year college rather than community college enrollment reduces low wage work. Yet\, less-selective four-year college enrollment rather than more-selective four-year college enrollment does not appear to increase low wage work or unemployment. In addition\, degree attainment appears to substantially mediate the effects of broad-access enrollment on low wage work. Finally\, although I find some suggestive evidence of heterogeneity by socioeconomic background in the direct effects of community college and less-selective four-year college enrollment on low-wage work\, the results are imprecise and no clear pattern emerges.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-2022-paa-practice-session/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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