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- CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR
- CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTLIGHTS
- CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
- FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
- CONFERENCES
- EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR
Joe Price -- Marriage and Health
Joe Price, BYU
Marriage and Health
Friday, February 20
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Parrington Hall Forum CSDE Seminar Schedule
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CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTLIGHTS
CSDE Brown Bag: Krista J. Gile -- Introduction to Respondent Driven Sampling
Krista J. Gile, Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Introduction to Respondent Driven Sampling
Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) is a type of snowball sampling where existing study subjects recruit future subjects from others they know. It is typically used to study hidden populations where a probability sample would not be possible or practical. The primary difficulty with RDS is estimating population parameters given the dependence among the observations.
Krista will give a basic introduction to RDS for researchers who are currently using or might want to use this method in the future. This will include when it is appropriate to use RDS as well as the strengths and weaknesses of current estimation methods.
Tuesday, February 24,
11:30am to 12:30pm
Raitt Hall room 221
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2009 PAA Annual Meeting
The CSDE website has information on the 2009 PAA Annual Meeting, including a listing of conference presentations by CSDE affiliates, fellows, and other members of the CSDE community. The annual UW-dinner at PAA is currently being planned. Please stay tuned for more details.
The info is here.
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CSDE Welcomes Audrey Kentor, Librarian
Please join us in welcoming Audrey Kentor to CSDE. Audrey is pursing her Master's of Library and Information Science at the UW iSchool. She is working part time in CSDE's Information Core.
Please stop by Raitt 218A and welcome Audrey to the Center.
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CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
Thomas Richardson-- Analysis of the Binary Instrumental Variable Model (Part Two)
CSSS Seminar Series
Thomas Richardson, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"Analysis of the Binary Instrumental Variable Model (Part Two)"
Wednesday, February 18
12:30 - 1:20 pm
Denny 401
More info is here.
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Keith Butler -- Design and Evaluation of Interactive Problem-solving
IHME Seminar Series
Mr. Keith Butler, Director of User Experience at Microsoft (on-leave)
"Design and Evaluation of Interactive Problem-solving"
As web sites and computer applications become central to problem solving, their effectiveness and usability in this role must be assured. Specifically, interactive problem-solving for technical domains where the solution must be reached reliably and quickly can and should be a deliberate requirement of their design. This presentation will explain work-centered design, a new approach to the design of interactive problem-solving, and illustrate it with examples from aerospace and from computing technical support. The new approach involves advanced types of problem modeling for information architecture, psychological principles for user interface design, and objective validation of improved problem-solving based on quantitative user testing in the lab and A/B experiments on large web sites. This approach is generalizable across many scientific domains.
Wednesday, February 18
4:00 pm coffee and refreshments
4:15-5:30 presentation and Q&A
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
2301 5th Avenue
Suite 600
Seattle, Washington 98121
Telephone 206 897 2800
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Daniel Nettle -- Genetic and linguistic diversity: What do they tell us about the history of the human population?
IPEM (IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling) Seminar Series
Daniel Nettle (Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Neuroscience, Newcastle U)
Genetic and linguistic diversity: What do they tell us about the history of the human population?
Thursday, February 19
3:30 pm
Denny 401
More info is here.
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Susan Hardwick-- TBA
Geography Colloquium, 2009
Susan Hardwick, Department of Geography, University of Oregon
TBA
Friday, February 20, 3:30pm
Smith 304
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Robert Plotnick, et al -- Impacts of Tolling on Low-Income Populations in the Puget Sound
WCPC Seminar Series
Robert Plotnick, Jennifer Romich, Jennifer Thacker, Research Strategist of Development Research and Relationship Management
"Impacts of Tolling on Low-Income Populations in the Puget Sound"
Monday, February 23
3:00- 4:30 pm
Parrington Commons (#308)
More info is here.
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Marc Miller-- Marine Affairs and Applied Environmental Anthropology: Fisheries, Marine Protected Areas
Environmental Anthropology (EA) Forum
Marc Miller (Professor, Marine Affairs)
Marine Affairs and Applied Environmental Anthropology: Fisheries, Marine Protected Areas, and Tourism
Monday, February 23
3:30-5:00pm
Denny Hall, 401
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Jennifer Fewell & Sean O'Donnell - Social Networks: How Simple Parts Make Complex Systems
Psychology Alumni Lecture Series
Drs. Fewell (guest speaker from the school of Life Sciences, Arizona State University) and O'Donnell (UW Psychology) share an interest in division of labor among the members of social groups. Both focus on social insects as model research systems for exploring how the behavior of individuals is integrated to yield complex, adaptive behavior at the group (colony) level. Their talks will explore new approaches to applying mathematical models of network interactions to insect societies and to other social systems. They will explore how we can go beyond merely describing complex interactions in social networks, and use network models to predict and understand the design of complex societies.
Wed., Feb. 25
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Kane Hall 120
Open to the public. Admission is FREE, but space is limited and advance registration is requested. https://go.washington.edu/uwaa/events/2009psych_lectures/details.tcl You can also register by calling the UW Alumni Association at 206-543-0540.
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Stewart Tolnay -- Strung Up and Riddled with Bullets: Southern Lynch Mobs and their Victims
Registration Requested at www.soc.washington.edu/RSVP using the word "lynching". Sociology Professor Stewart Tolnay will begin with a very brief overview of the history of lynching in the South followed by a discussion of different explanations that have been offered for the phenomenon and the evidence that supports or contradicts those explanations. He will compare the characteristics of the lynch victims with the general population to see in what ways they were similar or different.
Thursday, February 26
7:00 - 8:30 PM
UW Club Lecture Room
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
PRRAC Research/Advocacy "Small Grants" Program
PRRAC Research/Advocacy "Small Grants" Program *
2009 - Seattle/King County
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a not-for-profit civil rights policy organization based in Washington, D.C. One of PRRAC's central functions - embodied in our name - is to link research on race and poverty to advocacy work of all sorts. We do this in part in our conferences and publications - especially our bimonthly Poverty & Race, with its extensive Resources section - in part by periodically making available small grants to support such research and its use in a planned advocacy agenda (legislation, litigation, community organizing, public education, etc.). We've given over 100 such grants to date - see the descriptive list on our website (http://www.prrac.org/grants.php and www.prrac.org/grants.pdf ) We've recently received a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation that permits us to undertake a new round of grants.
This 2009 round will have a geographical as well as substantive focus. We will concentrate our work in the Seattle-King County area. We are particularly interested in research/advocacy projects that focus on housing, health or education (and of course links between those areas), and we are also interested in issues relating to changing demographics in the region, particularly in the Central District/Rainier Valley and South King County area and the impacts of these changes on housing, education,
health, transportation, criminal justice, democratic participation and local government structures.
Maximum grant amount is $10,000 (and budgets under $10,000 are encouraged to permit additional grants). We encourage applications from researchers, advocates and researcher/advocate teams. We may be able to put researchers in touch with advocates who can use their research results, as well as putting advocates in touch with researchers who can carry out projects needed to support advocacy work. Applications (aim for 2-4 pp.) should describe the research methodology, provide the qualifications of the proposed researcher(s), describe planned advocacy use, and include a budget. We anticipate a total of 6-9 grants in this cycle.
Deadline for submission is March 13, 2009. We will make/announce our decisions by April 3, 2009. And we plan to hold an all-day forum on May 7 or 8 at the UW Evans School to introduce the grantees and discuss their projects with a range of interested parties in the area.
Please send proposals to PRRAC's Director of Research, Chester Hartman, 1015 15th St. NW, #400, Wash., DC 20005, chartman@prrac.org. Feel free to phone him directly (202/906-8025) if you have any questions.
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NCMHD Health Disparities Research on Minority and Underserved Populations (R01)
(RFA-MD-09-004)
National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities
Application Receipt Date(s): April 17, 2009
The overall objective of this FOA is to support all investigators whose current research focuses on disease/conditions that disproportionately affect ethnic racial minorities, underserved populations, and rural and low-income populations. The research may include, but is not limited to, chronic diseases such as: cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, infant mortality, asthma, obesity and kidney disease. Specific targeted areas of research also may include studies that influence health disparities such as biological (e.g., genetics, cellular, organ systems) lifestyle factors, environmental (physical and family) social (peer influences), economic, institutional and cultural and family influences.
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Alcohol, Decision-Making, and Adolescent Brain Development (R01)
(PA-09-097)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.
This FOA issued by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, encourages Research Project grants (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to study decision-making processes in adolescents as they relate to drinking behavior, and the role of neural circuitry development in adolescent decision-making and alcohol abuse and dependence.
There is also a notice for a related R21.
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Centers for AIDS Research: D-CFAR, CFAR (P30)
(PAR-09-103)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
John E. Fogarty International Center
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Cancer Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute of Mental Health
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): June 15, 2009; June 15, 2010; June 15, 2011
This FOA solicits applications for the Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) program to provide administrative and shared research support to enhance HIV/AIDS research. Applications are being solicited for both standard CFARs and developmental CFARs (D-CFARs). Standard and D-CFARs provide core facilities, expertise, resources, and services not readily obtained otherwise through more traditional funding mechanisms. Additionally, D-CFARs provide support to assist investigators in the development of a competitive standard CFAR. The program emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, especially between basic and clinical investigators, translational research between the laboratory and the clinic and vice versa, inclusion of minority investigators, and inclusion of prevention and behavioral change research.
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CONFERENCES
Global Justice in the 21st Century
The Program on Values in Society and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the
Humanities invite you to a conference on:
GLOBAL JUSTICE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
April 17-18, 2009
University of Washington
In the twenty-first century, the world will continue to become more inter-connected. Health care, environmental degradation, political violence, human rights, and world poverty are global issues requiring global solutions. These issues will be addressed at a conference on Global Justice in the 21st Century to be held at the University of Washington on April 17-18, 2009. The conference will bring together scholars at the forefront of research on these issues to consider such questions as: What kind of international legal order should we work for in the 21st century? How should human rights be understood in the 21st century? How should intellectual property rights be balanced against the need for life-saving drugs? What rights should poorer countries have against wealthier ones? How should the international community address
global warming? What rights should the world's poor have to be protected from the effects of global warming? How should medical research be done to protect the world's poor from exploitation? The conference is free and open to the public.
More information is available on the conference Web site.
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Full-time Faculty Position -- Pierce College District, Sociology
Pierce College District is actively seeking applications from qualified candidates interested in teaching within a diverse, multicultural, learner-centered environment and who are committed to excellence. Full-time, tenure-track positions available in sociology
To ensure consideration, application materials should be submitted by March 9.
More info is here.
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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Summer Training in Demographic Analysis
ICPSR SUMMER PROGRAM WORKSHOP IN LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHIC DATA
July 20-August 14, 2009
Ann Arbor, Michigan*
Historical demography is an interdisciplinary field with a long history of important contributions to population studies and to the understanding of the past. This research has revealed a great deal about fundamental demographic processes such as household and family dynamics, the transition to smaller family units, pre- and post-industrial population dynamics, the demographic transition, migration patterns, and demographic responses to economic stress. This 4-week course will emphasize the use of event history analysis and data management of historical databases drawn from European, North American, and Asian populations. Longitudinal data will be employed to construct time-varying covariates and contextual variables for individuals, families, and households. Methodological issues such as censoring and incomplete information will also be addressed. Read more information about the course at www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/historical-demography.html
Application deadline: May 4, 2009
Applications are competitive. Participants will be selected on the basis of their interest in the topical areas, prior methodological training, and potential for research contributions that promote longitudinal analysis. Participants should be familiar with quantitative methods, including regression analysis. Those who need preparation in statistics are advised to attend quantitative courses during the June-July session of the ICPSR Summer Program. A limited number of stipends (between $500 and $2,000 US) will be awarded to cover travel and other expenses. For those admitted to the workshop, no fee will be charged to attend the Longitudinal Analysis in Historical Demography course. Apply on-line at www.icpsr.umich.edu/training/summer/, or at the ICPSR booth at the PAA meetings in Detroit. Support provided by the National Institutes of Health* and the ICPSR Summer Program.
Instructors:
George Alter, University of Michigan
Cameron Campbell, University of California at Los Angeles
Glenn Deane, University at Albany, SUNY
Myron P. Gutmann, University of Michigan
J. David Hacker, Binghamton University, SUNY
Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, University of Michigan
Katherine A. Lynch, Carnegie Mellon University
Ken R. Smith, Huntsman Cancer Institute and University of Utah
*Pending final funding approval from the National Institutes of Health
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College Fellows Program-- Harvard University
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University is pleased to announce the College Fellows Program. This program is for exceptional scholars who have recently completed their doctoral work and have demonstrated excellence in teaching. College Fellows will teach within an area of specialization while given ample time to pursue their own research. The program will provide College Fellows with mentoring on both pedagogy and career development. College Fellows are full-fledged members of the Harvard Community.
College Fellowships are one-year positions with the possibility of renewal for one additional year. In 2009, they are expected to be on campus starting August 15. College Fellows will receive a salary of $48,400 plus benefits.
College Fellowships are open to scholars who have completed, or will complete, all requirements for the Ph.D. by August 1, 2009. The program is limited to applicants who have received their Ph.D. no earlier than 2005.
Application deadline: 3/15/2009
More info is here.
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