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April 7, 2009

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CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR: Katie Baird -- Class in the Classroom
CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTLIGHTS: CSDE Statistics Core Workshops, Spring Quarter 2009
CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS: Demographic Data Available from South Africa; Mark Long Research Cited in Inside Higher Education Article on Texas’ 10% University Admissions Policy
CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST: David van Dyk -- Empirical Comparisons of Computer Models for Stellar Evolution; Jonathan Skinner -- Technology Growth and Cost Growth in U.S. Health Care; Deborah Thien -- Place Resonance: Examining the Substance and Shadows of Place-based Feeling; Alice O’Connor -- Beyond the Poverty Paradigm; Steve Goodreau -- Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Sex
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES: Preparation for Recovery Act Submissions and Awards; NIH ARRA Funding Considerations; Gates Foundation Opens Round Three of Grand Challenges Explorations; Supporting New Faculty Recruitment to Enhance Research Resources through Biomedical Research Core Centers (P30); Small Grants for Research Using PSID Data
CONFERENCES: Environmental Justice and Governance: African Perspectives in the Neo-Liberal Era; Global Justice in the 21st Century; 8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES: Assistant Professor -- Indiana University Northwest, Sociology and Anthropology; Assistant or Associate Professor -- Wayne State University, Sociology; Assistant Professor -- University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Sociology; Lecturer -- University of Denver, Economics; Professor -- Yale University, Anthropology
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES: Post-Doctoral Fellowship -- McGill University, Social Statistics and Family Change; Postdoctoral Position -- University of Texas at Austin, The Study of Heterosexual Relationships; Two Postdoctoral Research Associates -- Cornell University, Policy Analysis and Management in Human Ecology; Michael Meng -- Chinese Electronic Resources in the UW Libraries
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST: Robert M. Groves Nominated by President Obama to Run the Census Bureau

CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR

Katie Baird -- Class in the Classroom
Katie Baird, Economics, UW Tacoma
Class in the Classroom: School Resources and Math Performance Among Low Socioeconomic Status Students in 19 Rich Countries

Friday, April 10
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Parrington Hall Forum

CSDE Seminar Schedule

CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTLIGHTS

CSDE Statistics Core Workshops, Spring Quarter 2009
Introduction to SAS will be taught by Anita Rocha
Tuesday, April 7 and 14
3:30 – 5:30 pm
Condon Hall 601G (small CSSCR computer lab)
More information and registration are here: http://csde.washington.edu/training/courses/sas/index.shtml

Introduction to GIS II will be taught by Matt Dunbar
Wednesday, April 8 or Thursday, April 9
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Raitt Hall 223 (CSDE computer lab)
More information and registration are here: http://csde.washington.edu/services/gis/workshops.shtml

CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS

Demographic Data Available from South Africa
I want to make you aware of a source of demographic, health and
socio-economic data that has been facilitated by various of us here at
the UW. Supported by two NIH grants at the University of Colorado that
were underway in various stages when I arrived here, we have adopted a
policy of public access to the data generated by the Agincourt Health
and Demographic Surveillance system site in South Africa that has been
collecting data from a population of ~70,000 people in rural northeast
South Africa for the past 17 years.

To make this possible we have defined a set of policies to facilitate
access to the data and a number of downloadable data products that
greatly facilitate requests for additional data if that is required.
These include significant documentation and explanation.

This is the first attempt to do this at this site and one of the first
attempts to do this for a demographic and epidemiological research
center like this in Africa; you will find much that needs improvement,
but much that is quite useful already.

The URL is: http://www.agincourt.co.za/DataSection/

Building on a great deal of work by many people over the past five
years, UW Sociology graduate student Stephanie Liddle has been very
valuable in the final stages of this effort by helping to put together
the useful web site that displays the materials.

I am very pleased that this effort to mold a new culture around data
access in Africa has produced a satisfying result, and I think it would
be very useful to have researchers submit requests. Please share this
with anyone who might have an interest in data of this type.

- Sam Clark

Mark Long Research Cited in Inside Higher Education Article on Texas’ 10% University Admissions Policy
Texas legislators may be on the verge of changing one of the most notable admissions experiments in recent years: a state law requiring that all public colleges and universities automatically admit all of those who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. In light of this, Mark Long and his co-authors provided their study to Inside Higher Ed in advance of their formal presentation at the American Education Research Association Annual Meeting in the hope that their findings might inform the debate.

Read the April 6, 2009, article here.

CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST

David van Dyk -- Empirical Comparisons of Computer Models for Stellar Evolution
CSSS Seminar Series
David van Dyk, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California Irvine
Empirical Comparisons of Computer Models for Stellar Evolution

Wednesday, April 8
12:30 – 1:20 pm
Denny 401

More information is here.

Jonathan Skinner -- Technology Growth and Cost Growth in U.S. Health Care
IHME Seminar Series
Jonathan Skinner, Professor, Economics, and Department of Family and Community Medicine, Dartmouth
Technology Growth and Cost Growth in U.S. Health Care

Wednesday, April 8
4:00 – 5:30 pm
IHME Offices

More information is here.

Deborah Thien -- Place Resonance: Examining the Substance and Shadows of Place-based Feeling
Geography Colloquium
Deborah Thien, Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Geography, California State University, Long Beach
Place Resonance: Examining the substance and shadows of place-based feeling

Friday, April 10
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Smith 304

More information is here.

Alice O’Connor -- Beyond the Poverty Paradigm
WCPC Seminar Series
Alice O’Connor, Professor of History, University of California Santa Barbara
Beyond the Poverty Paradigm: Social Research and Political Imagination in Two Eras of Progressive Reform

Monday, April 13
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Parrington Hall Forum 309

More information is here.

Steve Goodreau -- Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Sex
Anthropological Epistemologies of Health and Healing
Steve Goodreau: “Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Sex (in Relation to Mathematical Modeling, Epidemics, and Deductive Reasoning)”

Monday, April 13
3:30-5:00 pm
Denny Hall, 401

More information is here.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Preparation for Recovery Act Submissions and Awards
March 31, 2009

It is very likely that none of us involved with grant and contract submissions and awards have ever experienced opportunities like those that are being afforded to us by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It is exciting to be a part of such an initiative. It is also a bit daunting for those of us charged with making sure we have the infrastructure and processes in place to support our researchers. We have outlined below some of the processes and support that will allow all of us to take full advantage of these opportunities.

We plan to ensure that our website (www.washington.edu/research/gca/recovery contains current pertinent information; you may email us at uw-arra@u.washington.edu.

Lynne Chronister, Office of Sponsored Programs, and Tami Sadusky, Grants and Contracts Accounting

Office of Sponsored Programs:

NOTES on Submissions:
Two new NIH announcements were posted the end of March and can be viewed on the UW ARRA website. These are for “Grand Opportunities” (LOI due April 27th , Proposal due May 27th ) and the “Recovery Act program for Biomedical Research Core Centers to Enhance Research Resources” (LOI due April 18th , Proposal due May 18th ).
NIH Administrative Supplements. Since No-cost Extensions must be in place prior to requesting supplements, OSP is accepting requests prior to 90 days in advance of the end of the project. Administrative Supplements are not submitted by Grants.Gov.
NIH Competitive Revisions (over $100,000/ Limit of $100,000 on equipment/2 year awards ): Due April 21st. For these awards the requirement that proposals over $500,000 get approval from the Program Officers is waived. eGC1’s and complete proposals are due into OSP by Friday the 17th at noon. However, since we anticipate hundreds of these, waiting until then to submit is very risky on Grants.Gov.
NIH Challenge Grants (up to $1M over 2 years): Due April 27th and due into OSP by noon on Thurs. the 23rd . A survey of campus indicated that over 402 of these proposals are planned. Some of these may become NIH Competitive Revisions but again, they must go out on Grants.Gov and there will be technical glitches so early submission is best. With only 200 funded nationally, the competition for Challenge Grants will be fierce.
In order to begin tracking ARRA proposals and awards for the federal and state governments, each Recovery Act proposal on an eGC1 must have as the first part of the short title “ARRA”.
Just In Time (JIT): HSD has developed a process to ensure quick turn-around for ARRA proposals. The process can be read on the HSD web site or as a link on the ARRA website.

OSP SUPPORT:
OSP is planning to hire 6 temporary employees to support Grants.Gov submissions for both the April 21st and April 27th deadlines. These temps will monitor and expedite the submissions.
An additional Server is being leased by Office of Research Information Services (ORIS) to support the additional submission load. In addition, ORIS is hiring a temp employee for support of OSP for Grants.Gov submissions. Additional computers are being set up for the temporary employees. Both Administrators and GCC’s in OSP will be submitting Grants.Gov proposals.
Since making sure awards are set up quickly is critical for Recovery Act spending, a retired OSP manager is returning. He will work with Program Coordinators to ensure awards are established as soon as possible even during the April rush.
Program Coordinators can be contacted to request No-cost Extension via the OSP website.
All OSP staff will be working many hours of overtime and on the weekends to process as many proposals as is possible. Our goal is to successfully submit all proposals received by the deadlines. But we will need them as early as possible and will need to have them as error free as possible.
For all actions that include new funding the EGC1 will be used to transmit the proposal/request including the NIH ARRA Administrative Supplements and Competitive Revisions.
On the EGC1 the Short Title should begin with “ARRA”. This may mean that the name may be shortened because there is only space for 22 characters.

SUGGESTION: If ARRA funding is a certain on supplements or revisions of previously submitted proposals, it is suggested that the recruitment of staff /post-docs etc. begin immediately in order to begin the project ASAP.

HELP FROM OSP: OSP is setting up a HELPDESK for proposal and award questions. The help desk will continue beyond the April deadlines and will be a good source to access for routine questions. However, if you have questions that are very specific about proposals and awards please feel free to contact the Administrators, Grant and Contract Coordinators and Program Coordinators. The HelpDesk can be accessed by Calling 206-616-6375 or by emailing Autumn Eck at osphelp@u.washington.edu.

HELP FROM DEPARTMENTS: Many of you have graciously offered to help us out in OSP and we will take you up on that offer! With the quick turn around requested of both NIH and NSF for revised budgets, forms and JIT requirements we will need to get information from campus very quickly. So all of your help in this would be greatly appreciated. If there is a way that we should be communicating to you all on the quick turn around, just let us know and we will follow your advice. Thank you!

Grant and Contract Accounting
NOTES on Reporting:

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued initial implementation guidance to federal agencies on spending the economic recovery funds. OMB described the detailed reporting requirements for recipients of these economic recovery funds. The requirements are as follows:

As required by Section 1512 of the Recovery Act, reporting must be submitted no later than 10 days after the end of each calendar quarter; starting with the quarter ending June 30, 2009 (reporting would be due July 10, 2009). Reports must contain the following information:
1)      The total amount of recovery funds under the specific award.
2)      The amount of recovery funds received under the specific award that were obligated and expended to projects or activities.
3)      The amount of unobligated award balances.
4)      A detailed list of all projects or activities for which recovery funds under the specific award were obligated and expended, including:
i)        The name of the project or activity
ii)       A description of the project or activity
iii)     An evaluation of the completion status of the project or activity
iv)     An estimate of the number of jobs created and the number of jobs retained by the project or activity
v)      For infrastructure investments made by the State and local governments, the purpose, total cost, and rationale of the agency for funding the infrastructure investment with funds made available under the ARRA, and the name of the person to contact at the agency if there are concerns with the infrastructure investment
5)      Detailed information on any sub-award (sub-contracts or sub-grants) made by the grant recipient to include the data elements required to comply with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-282), allowing aggregate reporting on awards below $25,000, or to individuals, as prescribed by the Director of OMB.

Final guidance issued by OMB for the Recovery Act will lay out, in more detail, specific reporting instructions and how the data collection for this reporting will work government-wide. The Council on Government Relations (COGR) is working with agencies to try to come up with approaches that will allow us to streamline the required reporting, as much as possible.

So far, NIH is the only sponsor to have specifically outlined their requirements for reporting activity on the awarded ARRA funds. We are watching daily for the other sponsors’ requirements to be outlined. GCA is currently working with OSP to determine the best way to obtain the information needed to comply with the reporting requirements. The working group is trying to have information stored in such a fashion that the UW online systems will be able to be used for downloading, minimizing the amount of potential manual work to gather pertinent and required data. One of the options we are looking at is to have a unique identifier on those grants awarded under this stimulus package. Another option is to identify each award by having ARRA at the beginning of the short title.

GCA SUPPORT:
GCA has requested to hire 7 temporary employees, to create a specific team, in support of the ARRA reporting. The proposed reporting ream will be led by a Project Manager who will lead a group of ARRA Analysts. These temporary positions will be for the duration of the ARRA timeframe (approximately 2 years). This team of professionals will be responsible for timely and accurate reporting; working with OSP and Campus Departments as necessary.

NIH ARRA Funding Considerations
ARRA Administrative Supplements and Competitive Revisions: Clarifications on Programmatic Limitations and use of Modular Budgets
(NOT-OD-09-079)
National Institutes of Health
American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009

Recovery Act of 2009: NIH Award Terms and Additional Information for Recipients Receiving Recovery Act Grant Funding
(NOT-OD-09-080)
National Institutes of Health
American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009

Please contact Scott Sipes if you require assistance with either of these notices.

Gates Foundation Opens Round Three of Grand Challenges Explorations
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the opening of Round 3 of Grand Challenges Explorations. A five-year, $100 million initiative to encourage bold and unconventional research on new global health solutions, Explorations offers researchers the chance to win $100,000 grants to further their research.

The Grand Challenges Explorations initiative focuses on research areas where creative, unorthodox thinking is most urgently needed. The topic areas for which proposals will be accepted in this round are:

- Creating Low-Cost Diagnostics for Priority Global Health Conditions
- Creating New Tools to Accelerate the Eradication of Malaria
- Creating New Vaccines for Diarrhea, HIV, Malaria, Pneumonia and Tuberculosis
- Creating New Ways to Induce Mucosal Immunity

Proposals are being accepted online at Grand Challenges in Global Health through May 28, 2009.
To help uncover new ideas, Grand Challenges Explorations (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/global-health/Pages/grand-challenges-explorations.aspx) seeks to involve scientists around the world who do not typically work in global health.
"We hope to hear from researchers of every age, on every continent, and from disciplines that don't typically focus on global health or even biomedical research," said Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of the Global Health Program at the Gates Foundation. "History has taught us that innovative ideas can come from anywhere."

The initiative uses a streamlined, online grant-making process. Applications are two pages, and preliminary data about the proposed research are not required.

The foundation and an independent group of reviewers will select the most innovative proposals, and grants will be awarded within approximately three months from the proposal submission deadline. Initial grants will be $100,000 each. Projects showing success will have the opportunity to receive additional funding up to $1 million.

Many of the projects that received grants from the first round of Grand Challenges Explorations pursued approaches that challenge conventional wisdom, such as using engineering techniques to enhance the natural human immune system. The grants from Round 2 will be announced by May 2009.

Full descriptions of the topic areas and application instructions are available at the Grand Challenges Explorations web site (http://www.grandchallenges.org/explorations).

Supporting New Faculty Recruitment to Enhance Research Resources through Biomedical Research Core Centers (P30)
(RFA-OD-09-005)
National Institutes of Health
American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009
Application Receipt Date(s): May 29, 2009

This NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), supported by funds provided to the NIH under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“Recovery Act” or “ARRA”), Public Law 111-5, invites applications from U.S academic institutions/organizations to support the hiring of newly-recruited faculty to develop research projects within the context of Biomedical Core Centers and in all scientific disciplines, including the field of bioethics. For this announcement, a Biomedical Core Center is defined as a community of multidisciplinary researchers focusing on areas of biomedical research relevant to NIH, such as centers, departments, programs, and/or trans-departmental collaborations or consortia. These awards are designed to enhance innovative programs of excellence by providing scientific and programmatic support for promising research faculty and their areas of research. Specifically for the purposes of this announcement, Core Center Grants are institutional awards that provide funding to hire, provide appropriate start-up packages, and develop pilot research projects for newly independent investigators, with the goal of augmenting and expanding the institution’s community of multidisciplinary researchers focusing on areas of biomedical research relevant to NIH.

Small Grants for Research Using PSID Data
Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Purpose
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), with support from the National Institute on Aging, announces a small grant competition to provide funding to between five and ten scholars in the range of $5,000-$20,000 each to use PSID data to conduct research on the connection between health and socioeconomic status within and across generations. Funded projects will generate papers that will be presented at a two-day conference in the fall of 2010.

The goals of this competition are to bring together scholars in the area of health and SES to generate additional scientific and policy-relevant findings, facilitate future collaborations including NIH proposal submissions, and provide feedback to PSID about possible needs for content changes and/or future data collections.

Terms of Funding
1. Applicants for the PSID small grant competition must hold a Ph.D. from an accredited institution and have an appointment as faculty, research scientist, professor, investigator, or postdoctoral fellow.

2. Grants will start October 1, 2009 and end September 30, 2010. No-cost time extensions will not be allowed.

3. These awards will only be made as personal services contracts to one or more individual researchers; the PSID will not contract with the grantees’ employers or any other organization.

4. The PSID will fund reasonable research expenses, including salary for each investigator, data or software purchases, research assistance, and relevant supplies, to a maximum of $20,000. Conference travel expenses will be provided to all grantees separate from the amount of their award.

5. The PSID will fund direct costs only; we will not provide indirect cost recovery (overhead).

6. Award recipients will be expected to present papers at a two-day conference in Ann Arbor, MI in September, 2010

DEADLINE: July 1, 2009

More information is here.

CONFERENCES

Environmental Justice and Governance: African Perspectives in the Neo-Liberal Era
The African Studies Program of the Jackson School of International Studies is pleased to announce a two day symposium on Environmental Justice and Governance: African Perspectives in the Neo-Liberal Era. Major sponsors of this event include the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Washington, the Graduate School, the Program on the Environment, the University of Washington School of Law and the Asian Law Center.

Interdisciplinary in nature, the symposium will explore the inter-relations between the environment, peace, development, and legal and political governance technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Participants will inquire, from cross-disciplinary perspectives, into whether events in Sub-Saharan Africa in the last two decades demonstrate the need to prioritize, as a matter of policy, development, and legal intervention, issues related to environmental management, conflict resolution, and peace building over “traditional” economic development.

April 15–16
William H Gates School of Law

More information may be found on the Jackson School Events Calendar, which is here.

Global Justice in the 21st Century
Today there is more attention to normative issues of global justice than ever before. This conference will bring together scholars at the forefront of this research to consider questions such as: What would a just global order look like? Will it require new transnational institutions? How can global problems of human rights, health care, poverty, and environmental degradation best be addressed?

April 17-18
Walker-Ames Room in Kane Hall (Room 225).

More information is here.

8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
The 8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences will be held from June 4 (Thursday) to June 7 (Sunday), 2009 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from social sciences related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.

For more information and to register, see here.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Assistant Professor -- Indiana University Northwest, Sociology and Anthropology
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Indiana University Northwest invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor who can, first and foremost, teach both Research Methods and Statistics, as well as introductory sociology and at least one of the following courses: urban sociology (preferable), applied sociology, sociology of health and illness, or theory. Applicant must have documentation of excellence in teaching and have Sociology Ph.D. in hand. IUN is a diverse urban commuter campus of about 5,000 students where teaching is highly valued and an ongoing research agenda is expected. The department consists of five tenured sociology professors, as well as one tenured anthropology professor and one anthropology lecturer. Position begins August 2009.

Assistant or Associate Professor -- Wayne State University, Sociology
The Department of Sociology at the Wayne State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor to begin August 2009. PhD in sociology by the time of appointment is required for an Assistant Professor. A professional record commensurate with rank and tenure is required for appointment as Associate Professor. We are looking for applicants with an interest in teaching and research within the department’s four major areas: Medical, Family, Labor/Urban and Social Inequality. Preference will be given to candidates with a strong research program, track record in obtaining extramural funding, research publications, evidence of community engagement, and a demonstrated excellence in teaching. The department is especially interested in candidates with a strong quantitative background able to teach our graduate and undergraduate statistics courses.

Review of materials will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. The university and department have a strong commitment to achieving diversity among faculty and staff. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from members of under-represented groups and strongly encourage women and persons of color to apply for this position. An online application is required. Visit http://jobs.wayne.edu and upload a letter of interest, writing sample and curriculum vitae. The position number is 000000. In addition, please have three letters of recommendation forwarded directly to: Chair, Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Wayne State University, 2228 F/AB, Detroit MI 48202.

Assistant Professor -- University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Sociology
Sociology: Assistant Professor - Sociology. Department and Women's and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs seeks applicants to teach South Asian Feminism and International Race Theory, conduct research, and perform public service. Candidate must have a Ph.D. in Sociology or related field, an established research agenda, and teaching experience. Send cover letter, curriculum vitae, writing sample, and two syllabi. Application review begins April 17, 2009.

More information is here.

Lecturer -- University of Denver, Economics
Economics: Lecturer. The Department of Economics seeks candidates for two full-time, one-year lecturer, non-tenure-track positions to teach introductory Economics courses and possibly Economics elective-courses. One of these positions is renewable, while the other is for one year. The person hired for the renewable position will also teach a First-Year Seminar and a Core course, which are parts of the University's general undergraduate requirements. The appointment will take effect September 1, 2009. Course load per position is 8 courses per year in a quarter-calendar. Other responsibilities include supervising graduating seniors in their Senior Paper research and possibly serving as readers on M.A. thesis committees. The successful candidate will have at least an ABD (all but dissertation) in Economics and two years of prior college teaching experience.

More information is here.

Professor -- Yale University, Anthropology
Anthropology: Yale University intends to make a tenured appointment of an anthropologist of scholarly distinction and demonstrated disciplinary leadership whose active research program contributes to significant new developments in the field of global health. This appointment is sponsored by the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and will begin by July 1, 2010. The successful candidate will be appointed to the Department of Anthropology, but we seek a scholar who will serve actively in Yale's interdisciplinary program in Global Health.

Application deadline: 5/1/2009 More information is here.

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

Post-Doctoral Fellowship -- McGill University, Social Statistics and Family Change
Candidates with a strong background in the analysis of family changes in Western societies are invited to apply for a post-doctoral fellowship at the Canada Research Chair in Social Statistics and Family Change. The candidate’s research program could focus on topics such as the transformation of conjugal life, the impact of family changes on fertility, balancing family and work, family life around retirement age, as well as family policies. Research projects should make extensive use of recent large Canadian surveys, and incorporate other foreign data sets for comparative analyses.

Application Deadline: April 15, 2009

More information is here.

Postdoctoral Position -- University of Texas at Austin, The Study of Heterosexual Relationships
Postdoctoral position in the study of heterosexual relationships. Primary responsibilities are publishing data from longitudinal study of dating partners, grant writing, assisting with research lab, and mentoring graduate students. Requirements include Ph.D. in family studies, sociology, social psychology, or related field; statistical expertise in multilevel modeling and causal modeling; and expertise in theories of close relationships.

More information is here.

Two Postdoctoral Research Associates -- Cornell University, Policy Analysis and Management in Human Ecology
The Department of Policy Analysis and Management in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University announces an opening for two Postdoctoral Research Associates. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in economics, demography, sociology, public policy, developmental psychology, or related social science discipline by August 31, 2009. Selection will be based on scholarly potential and ability to work in multi-disciplinary settings. The initial appointment will be for a one-year term and may be renewed for a second year.

Both Postdoctoral Research Associates will participate in research projects supported by external grants from NIH and will work with a multi disciplinary team of research collaborators. The Postdoctoral Research Associates will also be affiliated with the Cornell Population Program (CPP) and will have access to the CPP’s resources.

The first Postdoctoral Research Associate, directed by Dr. H. Elizabeth Peters, will conduct analyses on topics relating to the transition to fatherhood using multiple data sets. Research collaborators in the project are affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, Bowling Green State University, University of Maryland, University of Illinois, and Child Trends. Questions can be directed to H. Elizabeth Peters ( ep22@cornell.edu).

The second Postdoctoral Research Associate, directed by Dr. Rachel Dunifon, will conduct analyses on topics relating to parental work and child well-being using multiple data sets. Questions can be directed to Rachel Dunifon ( red26@cornell.edu).

The endowed positions have an annual salary of $40,000 plus endowed benefits and some support for travel. The availability of the positions is pending final action of funding agencies, but we will begin reviewing applications on April 15, 2009. Applications must include: 1) letter of application; 2) a curriculum vitae; 3) 2-3 page statement of research interests; 4) examples of written work; and 5) three letters of recommendation. Please submit applications online at http://www.ohr.cornell.edu/jobs . Click on Faculty and Non-Faculty Instruction, Research & Extension Positions.

Michael Meng -- Chinese Electronic Resources in the UW Libraries
Michael Meng, Chinese Studies Librarian, China Studies Program

An increasing number of electronic resources has become available to Chinese studies scholars during recent years. They range from basic research tools such as China Academic Journals and China Core Newspapers to advanced subject oriented databases such as Sinica Script and China Infobank. The presentation will introduce the newly updated Chinese studies subject page at the UW Libraries: http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/chinesestudies/. It will also provide a survey of the databases related to Chinese studies currently available through the University Libraries. Due to the time limitations, Mr. Meng will be pleased to offer individual or small group tutorial sessions by request. He can be reached by phone: 206-616-7665 or by email: mmeng@u.washington.edu. His office is at 338 Gowen Hall, East Asia Library.

Thursday April 9
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Thomson Hall 317

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST

Robert M. Groves Nominated by President Obama to Run the Census Bureau
Robert M. Groves, a former census official and now a sociology professor at the University of Michigan, was nominated Thursday by President Obama to run the Census Bureau. The New York Times reports that Republicans are opposed to the nomination.

Read the article here.