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- CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR
- CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTLIGHTS
- CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS
- CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
- FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
- CONFERENCES
- EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR
Claus Pörtner – The Demand for Sex Selective Abortions
Claus Pörtner, Assistant Professor of Economics
The Demand for Sex Selective Abortions
Friday, April 17, 2009
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Parrington Hall Forum
CSDE Seminar Schedule
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CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTLIGHTS
Having a Hard Time Finding a Publication? The Information Core Can Help
Although the UW libraries’ collection and electronic databasesare
first rate, occasionally a search for a publication comes up empty. Bill Lavely
recently had this experience when he searched for a 1988 American Journal
of Epidemiology article on infant survival in Malaysia. Because he wanted the
article for his Soc 431 course, Fertility and Mortality, he contacted the publisher
and was informed that they would happily provide a copy for $48. David
Hyllegard, who Bill asked for help, was able to quickly receive a pdf of the
article from one of his peers in the Association for Population/Family Planning
Libraries and Information
Centers (APLIC).
Please don’t hesitate to contact the Information Core, David Hyllegard or Audrey Kentor, for reference assistance, literature searching, bibliography
creation, automatic email notifications for articles and table of contents, and
the like.
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CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS
James Gregory’s Research on Seattle Housing Segregation is Presented on King 5 News
James Gregory discussed the research project that’s
uncovering Seattle’s
history of restrictive housing practices on King 5 News. Gregory and his students have found more than 400
restrictive covenants in Seattle
– property deeds that prohibited racial and ethnic groups from owning
property.
The transcript and video of the April 8, 2009, broadcast is here.
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CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
Ronelle Alexander – Cultural Identity in Southeastern Europe: Balancing the Global and the Local
Center for West European Studies
Ronelle Alexander, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of
California, Berkeley
Cultural Identity in Southeastern Europe: Balancing the Global and the Local
Everyone participates in a number of different groups, some by choice and some
by historical accident, and everyone must continually negotiate the balance
between these several different group identities. Those in southeastern Europe have had a more difficult time negotiating this
balance, particularly since 1989, but their situation is by no means unique.
This presentation focuses on the cultural aspects of identity, and on the ways
in which language is relevant both conceptually (in defining these identities)
and pragmatically (in the task of balancing these different identities).
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
2:30 – 4:00 pm
Thomson 317
More information is here.
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Faculty Panel – The Financial Meltdown: Where Did It Come From? Can We Fix It? Can We Prevent It From Happening Again?
The panel, also known as “Slink Slam: A Faculty
Debate on the Economic Crisis” is being sponsored by the Student Advisory Board
of the Social Science Learning Link.
Food and beverages will be provided.
Panelists are James Gregory, Mark Smith, Matt Sparke, Yoram Bauman, and graduate student Dominic Corva. Dean
Kevin Mihata is the Moderator.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
4:30 – 5:30 pm
Smith 120
More information is here.
The Social Science Link blog is here.
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Ian Dinwoodie – Sequential Sampling for Binary Sequences
CSSS Seminar Series
Ian Dinwoodie, Visiting Associate Professor of Statistical Sciences, Duke
University
Sequential Sampling for Binary Sequences
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
12:30 – 1:20 pm
Denny 401
More information is here.
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Jack Thompson – Public Health Practice, Accountability and Metrics in the Pacific Northwest
IHME Seminar Series
Jack Thompson, Former Director, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice and
Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health,
University of Washington
Public Health Practice, Accountability and Metrics in the Pacific Northwest
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
4:00 – 5:30 pm
IHME Offices
More information is here.
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Tony F. Chan – What's Up At NSF These Days?
Tony F. Chan, NSF Assistant Director for Mathematics
and Physical Sciences
What's up at NSF these days?
Students and faculty are invited.
In June 2006 The National Science Foundation named Dr. Tony F. Chan, Dean
of Physical Sciences at the University
of California at Los Angeles, to be Assistant Director for
Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) at NSF. In that position, Dr. Chan guides
and manages research funding totaling approximately $1 billion a year to
support astronomy, physics, chemistry, mathematics, materials science and
multidisciplinary activities.
Friday, April 17, 2009
10:30 am
Guggenheim 220
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Geography Graduate Student Panel – The UW Experience
Geography Colloquium
Panel TBA
Friday, April 17, 2009
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Smith 304
More information is here.
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Graduate Student Panel – Studying Health: How We Came to Care
Anthropological Epistemologies of Health and
Healing
Panel: Emily Brunson, Coleen Carrigan, David Citrin, Amy Jordan
Monday, April 20, 2009
3:30-5:00 pm
Denny Hall, 401
More information is here.
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Economic Studies of Health Insurance Coverage on Drug Abuse Treatment
Availability, Access, Costs, and Quality (R01)
(RFA-DA-10-004)
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Application Receipt Date(s): July 14, 2009
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit R01
applications to conduct rigorous, theory-driven research on the effects of
recent legislative and regulatory changes, including the Paul Wellstone and
Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, affecting
insurance coverage for drug abuse treatment services. Research on the effects
of health insurance parity legislation and changes in the Medicaid programs
needed to enhance understanding of the implementation and consequences of
legislative and policy initiatives. Specifically, these natural experiments
provide an opportunity to study fundamental scientific questions about how
variations in insurance coverage and benefit design affect access to, and the
availability, costs, efficiency, quality and outcomes of, drug abuse treatment.
Such research may also help inform how benefit packages for these disorders can
be optimally designed.
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NICHD will not participate in NOT-OD-09-058 ARRA Funds for Competitive Revision Applications
(NOT-HD-09-013)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development
The purpose of this Notice is to inform the research community that the Eunice
Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
(NICHD) will not participate in the Notice NOT-HD-OD-09-058 “NIH Announces the
Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications”.
Interested applicants may still submit competitive Revision Applications to
NICHD grants on any of the standard receipt dates listed here.
Such applications would be considered
for possible support by NICHD using non-Recovery Act funds. Applicants should
contact the program official for their grant prior to submitting any Revision
Application.
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Notice Regarding Competitive Revisions Using ARRA Funds for Applications Still Requiring Paper Submission
(NOT-OD-09-083)
National Institutes of Health
American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009
This notice provides additional guidance to applicants responding to “NIH
Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision
Applications” (NOT-OD-09-058). Specifically, this applies to
competitive revisions for parent awards for which the activity code of the
application has not transitioned to electronic submission. This includes
Program Project grants (P01), Center grants (e.g., P20, P30, P50), Cooperative
Agreements (e.g., U01), Training Grants (e.g., T32) and Institutional Career
Development Awards (K12). Applications for all of these grants are still
submitted in paper and revision applications must be prepared using the paper
forms found in the PHS 398 instructions for preparing a research grant
application (see here).
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Urban Long-Term Research Area Exploratory Awards
National Science Foundation
USDA Forest Service
Full Proposal Deadline(s): July 07, 2009
(NSF 09-551)
The National Science Foundation and the U.S. Forest Service invite proposals to
enable interdisciplinary teams of scientists and practitioners to conduct
research on the dynamic interactions between people and natural ecosystems in
urban settings in ways that will advance both fundamental and applied
knowledge. Because of the highly integrated character of the coupled
human and natural ecosystems that will be studied, these teams will require the
involvement of researchers from the social and behavioral, ecological, and
technical sciences. Up to 16 awards of up to two-years duration and up to
$300,000 per award are expected to be made.
Each Urban Long-Term Research Areas exploratory research (ULTRA-Ex) project
will be expected to contribute to the broader base of scientific knowledge
regarding human-ecosystem interactions and to benefit user communities.
Teams of social and behavioral scientists, ecological scientists, and technical
scientists as well as members of local communities should focus on one or a few
targeted research activities that will enable the team to work together more
effectively and conduct research that will yield both basic and practical
knowledge. Primary products of ULTRA-Ex projects are expected to be publications
and presentations for scholarly and practitioner audiences that disseminate
research results, especially publications in peer-reviewed journals.
ULTRA-Ex projects should enable research teams to develop more cohesiveness in
anticipation of future competitions to establish large-scale Urban Long-Term
Research Areas (ULTRA), but such competitions will be open to all interested
research teams, regardless of whether they have received an ULTRA-Ex project
award.
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CONFERENCES
Breadth in Anthropological Research (BAR) Conference
Anthropologists tackle issues from diverse
perspectives, drawing on a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods and
theory. In this year's Breadth in
Anthropological Research Conference, graduate and faculty researchers present
work that intersects with the theme of community health. The communities we will explore are
archaeological, historical, and contemporary, and we expand the concept of
health to include the literal and the metaphorical, the physical and the
societal. The conference will conclude
with a keynote speech by Dr. James Pfeiffer from the UW School of Public
Health.
April 17, 2009
11:00 am – 3:45 pm
Burke Room,
Burke Museum
More information is here.
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Relief of Pain and Suffering: Too Little or Too Much?
The Program on Values in Society and the
Department of Philosophy invite you to a Critical Medical Humanities conference
on:
May 1, 2009
University of Washington
South Campus Center, Room 316
Over the past two decades, there have been widespread calls to pay more
attention to pain and suffering in our health care system. These range from
calls by the World Health Organization to honor a “right to pain relief” to
calls to extend the values and tools of palliative care from the dying patient
to the broader group of patients with chronic illness. These calls have
produced increased attention to pain and increased use of long-term opioid
therapy. This increased use of opioids has been associated with increased
accidental deaths and increased opioid abuse. Society broadly, and health care
providers in particular, are challenged to find the appropriate response to
pain and suffering. This day-long conference will assemble nationally prominent
researchers, clinicians, historians and philosophers to discuss the goals, the
limits and the unintended consequences of our efforts to relieve pain and
suffering.
More information and registration are here.
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The Federal Statistical System — Recognizing its Contributions, Moving it Forward
Joint Symposium of the Committee on National Statistics and the American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Co-sponsored by the American Association of Public Opinion Research,
American Statistical Association, Association of Population
Centers, Consortium of Social Science
Associations, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics,
Population Association of America,
and SAGE Publications.
Friday, May 8, 2009
8:00 am – 5:30 pm
The National Academies
Building, Auditorium and Great Hall, Washington D.C.
More information is here.
To register, email
cnstat@nas.edu
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Assistant Professor – Northwestern University, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
Teaches graduate (MBA) level courses in
operations management. Pursues independent academic research in the area of
operations management related to healthcare, public sector and nonprofits in
delivery of healthcare to developed and underdeveloped countries. Advises
students and publishes research.
More information is here.
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Clinical Assistant Professor – New York University, Department of Economics
The Department of Economics at New York
University invites applications for three Clinical Assistant Professor
positions to begin September 1, 2009, pending budgetary and administrative
approval. This is a non-tenured teaching position. Ph.D. and substantial
evidence of high-quality teaching are required.
Application Deadline: April 24, 2009
More information is here.
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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Postdoctoral Research Associate – Princeton University
The Office of Population Research at Princeton University
is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on a project that examines the
biological pathways linking social and economic factors to health among older
cohorts in Taiwan.
The candidate should have strong methodological skills and experience in
working with large survey data sets. Appointment is for one year, with possible
renewal, to begin as early as July 2009.
More information is here.
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