CSDE-eNews Bulletin

February 26, 2008

ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE DIRECTOR: Exploring the possibility of opening a Census Research Data Center (RDC) at the UW
CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR: Steve Trejo -- Intermarriage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity and Human Capital for Mexican Americans
CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS: Seik Kim -- Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar; Sara Curran -- Environmental Anthropology Forum; Susan Cassels -- Nominated by the UW to go forward as an applicant to the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards; Marieka Klawitter -- Public Affairs 573: Asset Building for low income families
CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST: Critical Medical Humanities -- Susan Sherwin; IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling (IPEM) -- William Harms; Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series -- Filippo Randazzo
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES: Small grants competition -- National Center for Marriage Research; Reminder -- Royalty Research Fund proposals
CALLS FOR PAPERS: 2008 Research Conference on the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG); SRHR-Population-Environmental Degradation-Climate Change
CONFERENCES: Dying Hopes: Understanding Hope in the Face of Death Symposium
TRAINING & EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES: Health Science Administrators -- National Institute on Aging; Short course, Environmental Demography -- University of Colorado Population Center, Institute of Behavioral Science; Demographer, Climate Change/Environment -- Population Action International; Huckabay Teaching Fellowships Information Session; Post Doctoral Fellowship -- Yale, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course; Section Research Manager -- Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST: Delegation of Signature Authority to Lynne Chronister; Estimates of the legal resident population in 2006; The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington -- Paul Ramsey; American Time Use Survey Threatened

ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE DIRECTOR

Mark Ellis and I are exploring the possibility of opening a Census Research Data Center (RDC) at the University of Washington. A Census Research Data Center (RDC) is a dedicated lab space providing access to a large range of datasets derived from U. S. tax, census, health, employment/industry and assorted other administrative records. These data include individual, employer, health and geographic locational detail unavailable in public data. For example, RDCs provide access to the full long form s ample data of the 1990 and 2000 decennial US censuses and the ACS data coded at tract or block level. Many of these datasets are linked, providing unique opportunities to study relationships between a variety of social, economic and health processes and outcomes. A list of all the datasets that are currently available is available at the following website:

http://www.ces.census.gov/index.php/ces/researchdata

An RDC at UW is an exciting prospect for it would expand local access to a wide range of unique social science data. At the moment, there are nine RDCs, the closest of them at UC Berkeley.

The first step in this process will be identifying a substantial consortium of potential users from a variety of disciplines. If anyone is interested in joining this effort please email me or Mark.

Shelly Lundberg

CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR

Steve Trejo -- Intermarriage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity and Human Capital for Mexican Americans

Friday, February 29
12:30 - 2:00 PM
Parrington Hall Commons

CSDE Seminar Schedule

CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS

Seik Kim -- Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar

Seik Kim, Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Washington, CSDE affiliate
"Sample Attrition in the Presence of Population Attrition"

Wednesday, February 27
12:30 - 1:20 PM
Denny hall 401

Sara Curran -- Environmental Anthropology Forum

Sara Curran, Associate Professor of International Studies and Public Affairs, University of Washington, CSDE affiliate
"Demography, Institutions, and the Environment"

Wednesday, February 27
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Denny Hall 401

Susan Cassels -- Nominated by the UW to go forward as an applicant to the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards

Susan Cassels, CSDE Postdoc, was nominated by the University of Washington to go forward as an applicant to the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface. Susan's grant was one of two chosen out of many UW applications. This coveted award supports young investigators with backgrounds in the physical, chemical, or computational sciences whose work addresses biological questions and who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. The award provides $500,000 over five years to support up to two years of advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of a faculty appointment.

http://www.bwfund.org/programs/interfaces/index.html

Public Affairs 573: Asset Building for low income families

Spring 2008 -- Marieka Klawitter, Intructor -- Thursdays 3:00-5:50

A new generation of social policy analysts and practitioners argue that building assets rather than income is the key to helping low income families prosper economically and socially. Governments and nonprofits have responded by developing new programs and retooling or repackaging old programs to support home ownership, education, and microenterprise.

This graduate course will explore assets and finances for low income families primarily in the US. We will identify programs and policies targeted toward asset building and look at evidence of their efficacy. Using a multi-disciplinary perspective, we will examine the economic, social, and political contexts for these policies.

If you have any questions, please contact:
Marieka Klawitter
Evans School of Public Affairs
616-1673 / Email

CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST

Critical Medical Humanities -- Susan Sherwin

Susan Sherwin, Research Professor Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Whither Bioethics? From Feminist Bioethics to Public Ethics in an Era of Global Health"

Wednesday, February 27
4:00 PM
Communications 120

IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling (IPEM) -- William Harms

William Harms, Seattle Central Community College, Philosophy
"Modeling gene-culture coevolution: Some theoretical considerations"

Thursday, February 28
3:30 – 5:00 PM
Denny Hall 401

Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series -- Filippo Randazzo

Filippo (Fil) Randazzo, PhD, Senior Program Officer, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
"Working Toward Global Health Solutions"

Monday, March 3
5:00 PM
Foege Auditorium, S-060, Genome Sciences Building

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Small grants competition -- National Center for Marriage Research

The National Center for Marriage Research (NCMR) at Bowling Green State University is pleased to announce its first external grants competition. The NCMR seeks to fund up to four proposals ($20,000 per award) to support innovative research that contributes to theoretical, conceptual, methodological, or empirical developments about marital and family instability. A small but growing body of research indicates that marital and family stability may be as important as family type for individual well-being. Married families are typically the most stable, yet fewer Americans enjoy the benefits of married families. The high rate of divorce and the growth of single parenthood and stepfamilies coupled with increasing rates of nonmarital childbearing and cohabitation, mean that children and adults spend less time in married families. It also indicates family pathways into marriage have become more complex.

New research should investigate the causes and consequences of family instability, which encompasses both marital and nonmarital transitions. Greater attention to the mechanisms underlying the linkages between family instability and well-being is also warranted. Innovative conceptual and measurement development is necessary to build new research on marital and family instability. We seek applications that address these and other aspects of marital and family instability. The deadline is March 17, 2008.

Reminder -- Royalty Research Fund proposals

Many of your faculty are now writing/processing Royalty Research Fund proposals. These are due in the Office of Research by 5:00 on Monday, March 3, 2008.

Ann DePasquale and Vicky Palm approve these for the Dean’s Office, but they need to have the Chair’s signature first. Please move any of these proposals along ASAP. It’s hard on everyone when we receive all 50 on the final Friday and Monday, especially if corrections are needed! All RRFs should be directed to Richard Karpen’s area, Divisional Dean for Research, and not to your academic Divisional Deans.

CALLS FOR PAPERS

2008 Research Conference on the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) announces the 2008 Research Conference on the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and issues this Call for Papers. The Conference will be held on Thursday and Friday, October 16 and 17, 2008, at NCHS located in Hyattsville, Maryland, just outside Washington, DC.

The purpose of the conference is to present and discuss original, unpublished analyses of the National Survey of Family Growth. Participants in the conference (discussants and 1 presenter per accepted paper) will be reimbursed for travel and lodging expenses. About 20 papers will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Topical sessions will be organized around the themes represented by the accepted papers.

Papers are welcome on any topic provided the principal data source is one or more cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth. Priority will be given to papers using Cycle 6 of the NSFG (2002), based on 12,571 interviews with men & women aged 15-44. Papers or extended abstracts (3 or more pages) should be submitted electronically (preferably in PDF or Word format) to nsfg@cdc.gov or mailed by overnight mail to William Mosher for receipt by 5 pm EDT Tuesday, June 17, 2008.

William Mosher, PhD
National Center for Health Statistics
3311 Toledo Road, Room 7421
Hyattsville, MD 20782

Authors will be notified by e-mail of acceptance or rejection of their papers by 5 pm EDT Monday, July 14, 2008.

Some of the topics that may be studied with the Cycle 6 NSFG are:

male or female fertility; contraceptive use; infertility;

marriage and cohabitation; attitudes toward family life;

reproductive health, including use of health care;

sexual behavior and orientation;

parenting activities by men (fatherhood roles); and

socio-economic, religious, and contextual variations in these behaviors.

For additional information, please visit the NSFG website.

SRHR-Population-Environmental Degradation-Climate Change

EuroNGOs/EPF Strategic Workshop
SRHR-Population-Environmental Degradation-Climate Change
15-16 May 2008, Istanbul, Turkey

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/INTEREST

Submission Deadline: 31st March 2008

This workshop is aimed at stimulating discussion on the interdependence between Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), population growth, environmental degradation and climate change.

Recently, the discourse on the consequences of population growth and its impact on human health, socioeconomic development, and environmental degradation, often referred to as PPE (Population-Poverty-Environment) linkages has been strongly revived in public as well as expert discussions. Especially with regards to the reasons and consequences of climate change and the measures to be taken in order to fight “global warming”, many of the present discourses rashly suggest that slowing down population growth in the developing countries would automatically have a positive effect both on poverty reduction in the Global South as on climate change.

Although it goes without saying that the growing population figures in many countries of the Global South are having a disastrous impact on the environment and in turn on the people living in these countries, determining the exact extent, cause and effect of PPE linkages is a complicated task. The same holds true when it comes to the linkages between population, sexual and reproductive health and environment. Although some studies come to the conclusion that linking population policy, reproductive health interventions and environmental management can help improving health as well as economical standards in developing countries, the issues are complex and also connected to other sectors such as agriculture, education, gender, industry and labour.

In order to stimulate discussion and develop recommendation around these issues, we welcome abstracts and facilitators who discuss findings, best practices and lessons learned concerning the following themes and questions:

SRHR as a rights-based approach to population growth

Interdependence between population growth and environmental degradation

Does environmental degradation have an impact on SRHR?

Population growth in the South and climate change – combating the myths, exploring the causes and fighting the consequences

Interdependence between climate change and population

Involving women in SRHR and environmental decisions

Are the MDGs a realistic and obtainable target against the background of climate change and population growth?

Young people reaching the reproductive age and climate change

Additional information on the workshop, its specific objectives and the workshop format is here.

Please submit your abstracts/manifestations of interest to facilitate a working group by March 31st, 2008 to the EuroNGOs secretariat at mirja.leibnitz@eurongos.org.

For all further information and questions, pls contact Mirja Leibnitz at mirja.leibnitz@eurongos.org, Tel: ++32-(0)2 250 09 62 or Saskia Pfeijffer at Saskia@IEPFPD.ORG .

Thank you foryour interest in this important subject. We look forward to reading your latest finding and to meeting you in Istanbul in May 2008.

CONFERENCES

Dying Hopes: Understanding Hope in the Face of Death Symposium

The symposium brings together scholars working on the appropriate role of hope in care of the dying. The aim is to clarify our understanding of the phenomenon of hope, its objects in the context of dying, and its use – both positive and negative – in managing patient care and clinical research.

Friday April 4, 2008

Session I: 10 – 11:45 AM
Speaker: Jodi Halpern (MD/PhD, University of California Berkeley)
Commentator: Sarah Shannon (RN/PhD, UW Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems)

Session II: 1:30 - 3:15 PM
Speaker: Adrienne Martin (PhD, University of Pennsylvania)
Commentator: Anthony Back (MD, UW Department of Medicine)

Session III: 3:30 - 5:15 PM
Speaker: Eric Cassell (MD, Weil Medical College, Cornell
Commentator: Ingra Schellenberg (PhD, UW Departments of Philosophy and Medical History and Ethics)

All sessions are free and open to the public, and will take place in Room 316R of the UW South Campus Center.

For registration, go to https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/jdbench/49268

TRAINING & EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Health Science Administrators -- National Institute on Aging

To apply and review details about the position and qualification requirements, please visit http://www.usajobs.gov and apply on-line to announcement NIA-08-239915-CR-DE (open to all U.S. citizens) and/or NIA-08-239915-CR-MP. (open to current and former competitive service Federal employees).

Contact Lauren Carroll at 301-594-2288 in Human Resources.

Electronic applications are due by March 25, 2008.

Short course, Environmental Demography -- University of Colorado Population Center, Institute of Behavioral Science

Environmental Demography
July 16-18 - Boulder, Colorado

The course will provide an overview of the sub-discipline and several in-depth examples of central areas of research. Top scholars in the field will review both conceptual and methodological aspects of their research. In addition, students will receive an introduction to spatial data and analyses with a focus on the link between demographic and environmental processes.

Population and Environment Scholarship:
A Review and Considerations for the Future
Lori Hunter, University of Colorado - Boulder

Agent Based (Simulation) Approaches to Modeling Population and Environment
Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Population and Deforestation: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
David Carr, University of California - Santa Barbara

Measuring Environmental Racial Inequality: Using GIS to Link Theories, Questions, Definitions, and Indicators
Liam Downey, University of Colorado - Boulder

Mapping Social Data with ArcGIS: An Introduction
Nancy Thorwardson, IBS Computing and Research Services University of Colorado - Boulder

Format: The course is open to all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty from any institution. CUPC will provide a limited number of stipends to pay for travel to and from the short course. Course credit: If desired, students may enroll in the course for 1.5 credits, and the CUPC will cover tuition expenses. Credit-seeking students will be expected to complete a final exam.

For further information, including application information, please see: http://www.colorado.edu/ibs/cupc/short_courses/env_demography/ or contact: Lori.Hunter@colorado.edu.

Application deadline: April 6.

Demographer, Climate Change/Environment -- Population Action International

Demographer - Climate Change/Environment is being sought by Population Action International (PAI), an organization that works to improve individual well-being and preserve global resources by mobilizing political and financial support for population, family planning and reproductive health policies and programs. Through research and advocacy, PAI seeks to strengthen public awareness and political and financial support worldwide for population programs grounded in individual rights. At the heart of PAI's mission is its commitment to universal access to family planning and related health services, and to educational and economic opportunities, especially for girls and women.

This position will provide demographic expertise to a well-established organization that researches and advocates for evidence-based policies on population and reproductive health/family planning and women's centered development. Primary responsibilities include:

Lead PAI's demographic research efforts to assess the links between population and climate change and the environment. Conduct relevant demographic analysis in collaboration with climate change experts, including staff and consultants.

Develop methodologies to assess quantitative aspects of population and reproductive health/family planning that build public and policymaker awareness of, and contribute to, advocacy for sound population policies, programs and funding.

This position requires a Master's Degree or PhD in population studies, demography or related social science with 5-10 years experience in demographic/population research, including research related to climate change and/or environmental issues. Other qualifications include: excellent research and analytical skills; ability to communicate complex technical issues to a policy and advocacy-oriented audience; experience conducting demographic research; working knowledge of public health, epidemiology and international development, ability to identify important demographic/population issues and related-policy trends and challenges; and fluency in English. Overseas field experience in public health or development and fluency in a second language are pluses. In addition, a team player with a sense of humor, collaborative spirit and creativity is needed for this position.

PAI is a family friendly organization, offering a highly competitive benefit package. PAI is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people of color to apply for this position. Resumes with cover letter and salary requirements can be e-mailed to RMR@popact.org or fax to (202) 728-4177 Attn: Rachael Murray Rakestraw.

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Deadline for applications: Open until filled

Huckabay Teaching Fellowships Information Session

Thursday, February 28
3:30 - 4:45 pm
HUB 209A, University of Washington

The Graduate School is pleased to announce the availability of Huckabay Teaching Fellowships for the 2008-2009 academic year. Applications are due in the Graduate School by March 31, 2008. Fellows will be supported for one quarter at a compensation level equal to the amount paid to a Pre-doctoral Teaching Associate II (at the regular salary level), plus tuition (an amount up to the level of resident tuition in a state-funded graduate program will be provided) and ASE health insurance. These one-quarter awards are intended to give graduate students an opportunity to work on a specific project focused on teaching and learning at the college and university level. Projects are to be proposed by students, who will find faculty Teaching Mentors, either from UW or from a nearby community college, college, or university to collaborate with them in their projects. During the project, these collaborations between the Fellow and the Mentor should allow the student to benefit from the faculty member’s expertise in teaching, while maintaining a focus centered on the student’s teaching interests. These fellowships are funded by a private endowment established by Durward and Susan Huckabay, UW alumni and Laureates, in order to further graduate education at the University of Washington.

Successful candidates may enroll for GRDSCH 610 (3 credits), Teaching Mentorship, and earn credit for their fellowship experience. Successful candidate must enroll for GRDSCH 620 (2 credits), Teaching Mentorship Seminar, during WQ 2009. Attendance at a preliminary meeting for fellows and mentors and at events honoring Huckabay Fellows is expected, and a brief written report on the experience is required.

Huckabay Fellowships are not intended to fund a student’s dissertation research, but rather, to broaden the student’s graduate education, particularly in the area of teaching and learning. Proposals will be evaluated by an interdisciplinary committee which will use the criteria listed below. The proposal should:

Clearly identify a need in instruction or curriculum and demonstrate why this need is important and should be addressed.

Reflect a clearly explained methodology that is appropriate for addressing the need.

Make clear the tasks the Fellow will undertake in the collaboration on the project, demonstrating the Fellow-centered nature of the proposal.

Stipulate plans for assessing the success of the project (including but not limited to student ratings, if appropriate).

Provide evidence that the student is well qualified to undertake the tasks outlined in the application.

Describe the Teaching Mentor’s active participation in the project and make clear the ways in which he or she will assist the Fellow in becoming a better teacher.

Provide evidence of the Teaching Mentor's reflective practice as a teacher that qualifies him or her to undertake the tasks outlined in the proposal.

Outline the opportunities that the Fellow will have to teach or otherwise use the results of the project.

Any faculty member from UW or a nearby college or university is eligible to be a Teaching Mentor. Graduate students benefit from having multiple faculty mentors, so applicants should consider working with someone other than their research advisors at the UW. Students can also benefit from working with faculty at one of the other higher education institutions in the Seattle area. Faculty mentors may work with only one Huckabay Fellow at a time. The Center for Instructional Development and Research (CIDR) may provide consulting services for proposal development.

Post Doctoral Fellowship -- Yale, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course

The Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) seeks applications for a postdoctoral fellowship for one or more years, to start in Fall 2008. Candidates should be interested in empirical research on the processes that generate inequalities of social class, race/ethnicity, generation, and gender across the life course and have experience on working with longitudinal data.

Applicants should expect to use 50% of their time for research collaboration with CIQLE faculty and/or making use of the CIQLE data archive. Current stipends are approximately $37,000 per year plus benefits. Applicants should have completed their Ph.D. by the beginning of the appointment but not earlier than 2005.

Please send a cover letter, curriculum vita, and a 2-5 page description of your postdoctoral research plans electronically to chelsea.rhodes@yale.edu (preferred) or by mail to Karl Ulrich Mayer, Department of Sociology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208265, New Haven, CT 06520-8265, and arrange for two confidential letters of reference to be sent to the same address.

The deadline for applications is March 28, 2008.

For more information, see http://www.yale.edu/ciqle/ or contact Juho Härkönen.

Section Research Manager -- Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service

In response to the growing complexity of public policy issues facing the nation, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress, will be strengthening its section research management structure by elevating critical leadership positions to permanent line management staff. As a result CRS will hire 30 Section Research Managers who will contribute to a new direction in research management for the lead public policy support agency for the United State Congress. There will be two hiring cycles to support this critical recruitment initiative. Vacancy announcements for the first hiring cycle have closed. There are a total of 16 Section Research Manager Positions available in the second hiring cycle, including three in the Domestic Social Policy Division (DSP).

To learn more about CRS and other research manager positions open during the first hiring cycle, please go to http://www.loc.gov/crsinfo.

The following vacancies are available within DSP:
Health Insurance and Financing
Children and Families
Health Services and Research

Application Deadline: March 6, 2008

For more information, please click here.

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST

Delegation of Signature Authority to Lynne Chronister

Please note that as of Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008 that Lynne Chronister, Director of the Office of Sponsored Programs, will assume the role of the institutional Signing Official for grant and contract awards and amendments. As of this date, please ensure that all applications reflect the change in signature authority from Jeff Cheek to Lynne Chronister.

If you have an application that is currently routing for UW approvals in SAGE, please withdraw the eGC1, update your attachments to reflect the change and then click the "Complete" button to push it back into routing. If you have any questions, contact the Sage Help Desk (Email or 685-8335) or your OSP Administrator.

Estimates of the legal resident population in 2006

The Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) would like to announce the release of Estimates of the legal resident population in 2006.

This report provides estimates of the legal permanent resident population and population eligible to naturalize as of January 2006.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington -- Paul Ramsey

Paul Ramsey
"Patient-Centered Care and Learner-Centered Education: Moving From Competing to Dual Priorities"

Thursday, February 28
4:00 - 5:30 PM
2301 5th Ave. Suite 600

American Time Use Survey Threatened

As part of his Fiscal Year 2009 budget submission, President Bush proposed eliminating the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) as an offset to help cover the rising costs of the Current Population Survey. The Population Association of America and Association of Population Centers will be working with other social and behavioral research organizations to urge Congress to provide the Bureau of Labor Statistics with an overall increase in its budget. If the agency receives an increase, it is hoped that neither survey would be curtailed or eliminated.

More information about the ATUS is at http://www.bls.gov/tus/.

Additional information about ATUS and a public advocacy effort to help save the survey is here.