{"id":37325,"date":"2024-01-09T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T19:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?p=37325"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:35:56","slug":"congratulations-to-urooj-akram-recipient-of-the-2023-pollara-statistical-confidence-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/2024\/congratulations-to-urooj-akram-recipient-of-the-2023-pollara-statistical-confidence-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Urooj Akram, recipient of the 2023 Pollara Statistical Confidence Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Congratulations to Urooj Akram, recipient of the 2023 Pollara Statistical Confidence Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Urooj.Akram_.Pollara2023_DSC03684-1350x1350-1-400x400.png\" alt=\"photo of Urooj Akram\" class=\"wp-image-37327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Urooj.Akram_.Pollara2023_DSC03684-1350x1350-1-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Urooj.Akram_.Pollara2023_DSC03684-1350x1350-1-160x160.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Urooj.Akram_.Pollara2023_DSC03684-1350x1350-1-240x240.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Urooj.Akram_.Pollara2023_DSC03684-1350x1350-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Urooj.Akram_.Pollara2023_DSC03684-1350x1350-1-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Urooj.Akram_.Pollara2023_DSC03684-1350x1350-1-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Urooj.Akram_.Pollara2023_DSC03684-1350x1350-1.png 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Urooj Akram, recipient of the 2023 Pollara Statistical Confidence Award. This award is given to those students who produce the best quantitative analysis papers at an advanced stage of their studies and who have been associated with the Department of Political Science through course work or supervision. Pollara Strategic Insights is a major Canadian research company that has been sponsoring these awards for since 1998. This is the 26th time the award has been granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urooj Akram is an honours undergraduate in Political Science with a concentration in Public Affairs and Policy Analysis and an additional interest in Economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is receiving the award for her work in Political Science 4701-Intermediate Polimetrics for Microdata. Her major course paper is entitled:&nbsp;<em>The Puzzle of National Economic Perceptions: Analyzing Where Demographic, Employment, and Partisanship Variables Fit.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urooj\u2019s research found that the Canadians\u2019 evaluations about the economy\u2019s performance were significantly impacted by their household\u2019s finances, personal income, gender, political alignment, geographic region, union membership, education, and marital status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urooj\u2019s instructor in PSCI 4701 was Scott Edward Bennett of the Department of Political Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Urooj Akram, recipient of the 2023 Pollara Statistical Confidence Award. This award is given to those students who produce the best quantitative analysis papers at an advanced stage of their studies and who have been associated with the Department of Political Science through course work or supervision. 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