Robert Cooper teaches summer courses at University of Michigan

In the summer of 2025, Professor Robert Cooper taught two workshops at the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.  Professor Cooper has been teaching in this program since 2019 and joined the Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) at Dartmouth in 2018. Professor Cooper uses ICPSR as a laboratory to experiment with teaching methods in order to improve his QSS courses at Dartmouth.  He regularly teaches QSS 17 (Data Visualization), QSS 19 (Advanced Data Visualization), QSS 15 (Introduction to Data Analysis), and QSS 82 (QSS one quarter research project).

According to Professor Cooper, "My courses at ICPSR usually have graduate students from at least three continents and represent some of the finest colleges and universities in the world. I take it as a great challenge each year to teach statistics and research methods to students who vary so greatly across languages, cultures, and levels of experience. It motivates me and keeps me sharp both as a communicator and as a professor."

This summer, Professor Cooper's ICPSR rosters included students from the United States (e.g., Vanderbilt, Yale, Duke, Texas Tech, the University of Dayton, Boston College, among many others), Canada (the University of Manitoba and Queen's College), Germany (the University of Mannheim), Sweden (Uppsala University), Brazil (Federal University of Pernambuco), and Finland (LUT University), among other locales