Resources

COVID-19 Resources

• Penn’s Research Resumption Plan
• Health and Safety of the Penn community
• Student Health, Campus Health and CAPS staff continue to support students’ physical and mental health needs. They offer both in-person and telehealth services to our students, connecting with students regardless of where they are.
• Graduate Center Peer Cluster Groups
• Center for Teaching & Learning has a website on remote teaching that TAs may find useful.
• Faculty Wellness Partners for Graduate Students - Please fill out this simple web form to request an appointment.
• PhD and research master’s students can choose a pass/fail grade type for each of their courses until October 30, 2020 at 11:59 pm. by using the Grade Type Change Form on the SRFS website
• Graduate Group Review Student Feedback Form
• Graduate Student Center
• Family Resource Center

• EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS
• Calendar - University 3-year
• Calendar - Graduation Deadlines
• Demography Canvas Site
• Graduate Arts & Sciences / Office of Associate Dean for Graduate Studies (GAS)
• Graduate Student's Center (GSC)
• Penn-in-Touch
• Penn Portal (U@Penn)
• The Marks Family Writing Center for Excellence in Writing

Penn Departments, Programs and Centers at Penn 

• Graduate Group in Demography (GGD)
• Populations Studies Center (PSC)
• Population Aging Research Center (PARC)
• Economics
• Sociology

Funding

• Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
• CURF
• Fontaine Society
• Ford Foundation
• Fulbright
• Career Services Funding Resources
• Grants.Gov
• H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
• NIH
• NIH F31
• National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
• NSF
• Inter-American Foundation (IAF)
• Paul & Daisy Soros New American Fellows
• Social Science Council (SSRC)
• Vice Provost for Research funding
• VPUL funding for graduate students and postdoctoral fellowship
• Foreign Language Study
  • Blakemore Foundation
  • Boren Fellowship
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)
• Dissertation Completion Fellowships
  
  • AAUW Dissertation Fellowship
  • CCKF Doctoral Fellowship (non ROC citizen)
  • CCKF Dissertation Fellowship (ROC citizen)
  • Hewlett Foundation/IIE Dissertation Fellowship
  • Mellow/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
  • Penn Prodoctoral Fellowships for Excellence Through Diversity
  • SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)
•  Travel
  
  • GAPSA
  • SASgov
  • SAS Travel Subvention

Policies

• Academic
  
  • Pennbook - Handbook for Students
  • Doctorial Dissertation Manual
  • Procedures Regarding Misconduct in Research
  • Responsible Conduct of Research
• Family Policies
  
  • Family Policies for Ph.D. Students
• Human Subjects
  
  • Office of Regulatory Affairs (IRB)
  • Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research (Belmont Report)
  • Human Subjects Electronic Research Application (HS-ERA) 
  • HSERA Reference Guide
  • Human Subject Research in the Sociobehavioral Sciences
  • IRB Guidance: Is IRB Review Required? 
  • IRB Guidance: Is your study exempt from IRB Review?
• Research
  
  • Author Rights - Using SPARC Author Addendum
  • Fairness of Authorship Credit in Collaborative Faculty-Student Publications for PhD Students

Research

• Campus Copy
• Demography Library Catalog
• Google Books
• Google Scholar
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • NIH grant writing tips
  • NIH guide to funding opportunities
  • NIH Manuscript Submission System
  • NIH Public Access Policy
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • NSF funding opportunities
  • NSF grant writing tips
• Penn ERA Electronic Research Administration
• Penn Library System 
  • E-Resources
  • InterLibrary Loan
  • Software & Other Workshops
  • Weigle Information Commons Tutorials & Handouts
• PSC Resources
• WorldCat
• Citation Management
  • BibTeX
  • EndNote
  • Mendeley
  • RefWorks
• Journals
  • Demography Journal
  • Demographic Research
  • Nature 
  • Population and Development Review
  • Population Studies: A Journal of Demography
  • Science Magazine

• Research Databases
  
  • ABI/INFORM Global
  • EBSCO MegaFile
  • Pub Med
  • JSTOR
  • Latin American Mortality Database
  • Science Direct
  • Scopus
  • Web of Knowledge
• Statistics & Data
  
  • Africa Development Indicators
  • Historical Census Browser (University of Virginia Library)
  • Human Development Report
  • Human Life-Table Database
  • Human Mortality Database
  • Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
  • International Statistical Agencies
  • National Center for Education Statistics
  • National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
  • OCED iLibrary
  • U.N. Country Profiles of Statistical Systems
  • U.N. Demographic Yearbook
  • U.N. Data
  • U.N. Model Life Tables for Developming Countries
  • U.N. Population Division
  • U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • U.S. Census Bureau
  • World Bank Data
  • World Health Organization

Matriculating at Penn

• Pennkey
• PennCard
• Email
• PennGlobal - for international students
• Campus Express 
• Student Health Service - immunization & insurance
• Housing: On-Campus Penn Residential Services
• Housing: Office of Off-Campus Services
• New Student Orientation for Grad Students
• New Student Orientation for Undergrads (has many events that grad students may find useful)

University Resources

• Career Services
• Center for Teaching and Learning
• Concur / Penn Travel & Expense Management
• Counseling and Psychological Service for Students (CAPS)
• Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA)
• Interactive Campus Map
• Knowledge Link
• Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA)
• Office of Research Services (ORS)
• Penn Canvas
• Penn Bookstore
• Penn Book Center
• Penn Directory
• Penn Library Course Reserve (for main library)
• Penn Recreation
• Poster Printing @ Weigle Information Commons
• Public Safety
  • PennReady
• Remote Access (for Parcandride, etc)
• School of Arts and Science (SAS)
• SAS Writing Programs
• Student Intervention Service
• Student Registration & Financial Services
• VPUL Equity & Access Programs
• Weingarten Learning Resource Center
• Computing 
  • Computer Connection
  • Social Science Computing
• Financial
  • McNeil Business Office 
• Travel 
  • Global Registry
  • Office of International Programs
  • Penn Global
  • Penn-International SOS
  • Travel & Expense System (T&E)

Jobs

• ASA Employment Webpage
• Career Services Job & Internship
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Idealist (nonprofits)
• Inside Higher Ed
• Sociology Job Market Forum
• US Jobs (government jobs)

Professional Organizations

• American Sociological Association (ASA)
• Association of Population Centers (APC)
• European Association for Population Studies (EAPS)
• International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
• Population Association of America (PAA)
• Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
• Union for African Population Studies (UAPS)