Welcome to our new students and welcome back to our returning students. I have been happy to see many of you already in person, but I would like to invite you all to our annual orientation and welcome event next week on Wednesday, September 13 at 5:30 in the Sociology Department lounge. The event is open to all MA students and faculty. Pizza and drinks will be served. Please come so we can all get to know each other and so we can discuss some important information about the program. I will be the acting Co-Director with Professor Hongwei Xu this year. My email is listed below, and you may contact me with any questions. The Sociology Department is in Powdermaker Hall 252. The main phone number for the Sociology and Data Analytics programs is: 718-997-2800 We have hired a tutor for the program to assist students with programming in R. We will send a separate email with hours for tutor contact information. Special career and skills workshops will be announced on this listserv throughout the year. Looking forward to seeing you all soon, Professor Sperry ryan.sperry@qc.cuny.edu ______________________________________________ Professor Ryan C. Sperry, Ph.D. Department of Sociology Queens College, The City University of New York Co-Director, MA in Data Analytics & Applied Social Research qcs<http://www.qcsociology.org/data-analytics/>ociology.org/data-analytics/<http://www.qcsociology.org/data-analytics/> email: ryan.sperry@qc.cuny.edu<mailto:ryan.sperry@qc.cuny.edu>