ICPSR Announces Winners of 2026 Data Communication Scholarship

ANN ARBOR–ICPSR is excited to announce the winners of the 2026 Data Communication Scholarship, which celebrates students for their ingenuity in discovering, exploring, and communicating research data archived at ICPSR.

Tara Naomi Trivedi, (Chemistry) of Stony Brook University, earned First Place with a video submission titled “Tracking America During COVID-19.” The video explores data from “COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey (CTIS), United States, 2020-2022 (ICPSR 39207).”

“Thank you so much for this wonderful news! I’m truly honored to have been selected as the first-place winner! I sincerely appreciate the recognition and the opportunity to have my work featured by ICPSR,” said Trivedi, reflecting on the recognition.

Tiffany Phoebe Sudijono (Honors Cognitive Science & Information Science (UX)) of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, earned Second Place with a video submission titled “Bridging Medicine and AI: Acute Stroke MRI Data.” The video explores data from “Annotated Clinical MRIs and Linked Metadata of Patients with Acute Stroke, Baltimore, Maryland, 2009-2019 (ICPSR 38464).”

Sudijono emphasized the impact of the opportunity, saying “It is an incredible honor to become a second-place winner for the ICPSR Data Communication Scholarship and a deep privilege to have had this wonderful opportunity to share the transformative work of ICPSR through an exciting, exploratory project. I feel immensely blessed to be able to share an interesting study with others through my video!”

These students were selected for their exceptional creativity, originality, data communication, and storytelling.

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who submitted an entry or spread the word about the competitions!

Sincerely,

Maggie Levenstein

Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Save the Date: Submissions for the next round will be due on Feb. 23, 2027.