Contact: Patrick Gibbons
RTI International
919-541-6136
Robert Bernstein/Malkia McLeod
Public Information Office
301-763-3030/763-3762 (fax)
Officials from the U.S. Census Bureau, RTI International, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open a new Census Research Data Center (RDC) laboratory. The new lab, the Triangle Consortium Research Data Center, is actually a branch of the existing Triangle RDC at Duke University in Durham, N.C. RDCs are secure Census Bureau facilities where researchers from academia, federal agencies and other institutions with approved projects receive restricted access to unpublished Census Bureau demographic and economic microdata files.
RTI International
Building 7
3040 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, N.C. 27709
Note: Videography and photography will be permitted. Directions to the RTI International campus and a campus map can be found at <http://www.rti.org/pubs/rti_international_maps.pdf>.
Reporters planning to attend should contact Patrick Gibbons of RTI International at 919-541-6136 or pgibbons@rti.org.