ICPSR has announced the winners of its 2009 round of Undergraduate Research Paper Competitions. Congratulations to Yale May 2009 graduate Nathaniel Becker, whose paper The Transmission of Political Ideologies through Social Networks: an Empirical Approach won the Minority Data Resource Center (MDRC) competition - the second year in a row for a Yale student to do so, after Sarah Ireland's paper Intergenerational Class Mobility by Race: Can the Black Middle Class Reproduce Itself? in 2008. Nathaniel used the Houston Area Survey, 1982-2007 from the ICPSR data archive.