Rodrigo Dominguez Villegas, a Ph.D. student in the sociology department and recipient of the 2016 CRF $10,000 pre-dissertation award, has been accepted into the first Summer Institute in Migration Research Methods, to be held at University of California Berkeley. The purpose of the Summer Institute is to train a new generation of U.S. migration researchers to leverage existing datasets and learn best-practices for rigorous, new data-collection projects, as well as to provide instruction in cutting edge methodologies particularly relevant to the study of mobile populations. Dominguez Villegas was one of a large pool of highly qualified applicants and as a participant in the program, he will be given the opportunity to receive training from the top migration scholars in the US. Read more about the program here.