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CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR: MacQuarrie, Thomas, and Varanasi – PAA Preparatory Session
CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTLIGHTS: Last Call for UW Dinner at PAA
CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS: Mark Long Receives AERA Palmer O. Johnson Award; Stewart Tolnay – Featured Speaker at UCLA Population Center
CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST: India Ministry of Commerce Delegation – India Rising; Presentation of CSSS Courses for 2009-2010 Academic Year; Lawrence Repeta – Seeking Justice Through International Institutions; Ian Riley – Health and Medical Research in Papua New Guinea; Rowan Ellis – Civil Society, Savage City: The Depoliticization of Dispossession in Chennai, India; Dr. Shin Doh Chull – Democratization in East Asia: A Cultural Perspective; Joe Weis – "Just the Facts, Ma’am”: Investigating Murder Myths; Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam – Various Lectures; Peter Lape – Some Things I Learned at the Intersections of Archaeology, Eating, and Domestic Violence
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES: NIH Small Research Grant Program (Parent R03); NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (Parent R21); NCMHD Exploratory Centers of Excellence (P20); Research on Teen Dating Violence (R01) (R21); HHMI Undergraduate Program – Limited Solicitation
CALLS FOR PAPERS: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender, Sexuality, and Power; IEAS Conference on Contemporary European and American Societies
CONFERENCES: 2009 Women on the Other Side of the Lens: Conference on Spanish Cinema; Place, Health, and Equity Conference
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES: Director of the Mental Health Services and Policy Program – Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES: Dissertation Fellowships – West Coast Poverty Center; Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transitions into the Labor Force, Marriage and Biological Fatherhood – Johns Hopkins University; Post-Doctoral Fellow – Brown University, Archaeology; SuperComputing Education Program Summer Workshops; University of Washington Press Workshop – Publishing Your First Book
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST: PRB Discuss Online: “A Call to Action: World Malaria Day 2009”

CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR

MacQuarrie, Thomas, and Varanasi – PAA Preparatory Session
Kerry MacQuarrie, Sociology
Women's empowerment across the life course in Madhya Pradesh, India: The influence of time-varying and fixed-time covariates

Nalina Varanasi, Economics
Intrahousehold bargaining and fertility

Jason Thomas, Sociology
Estimates of HIV Incidence Profiles for sub-Saharan Africa with Projected Declines in Fertility

PAA Preparatory Session
Faculty and students are invited to attend and provide constructive feedback.

Friday, April 24, 2009
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Parrington Hall Forum

CSDE Seminar Schedule

CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTLIGHTS

Last Call for UW Dinner at PAA
If you're attending PAA, please join us at the UW Dinner at Sweet Lorraine's restaurant on Thursday April 30, 6.00 pm. Tomorrow is the deadline for rsvps. Please email csde-paa-dinner-rsvp-2009@u.washington.edu to reserve your place.

The restaurant is located at 333 East Jefferson, which is within walking distance of the conference hotel. Dinner will include soup/salad, entree, dessert, and non-alcoholic beverages. You will have 3 entree choices including at least one vegetarian option. $30 per person.

This will be another impressive year for CSDE at PAA. Reflecting the wide-ranging expertise of our and affiliates and fellows, we have 29 presenters and/or discussants participating in 40 sessions. A listing of conference presentations by CSDE affiliates and fellows is available here.

CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS

Mark Long Receives AERA Palmer O. Johnson Award
Mark Long is the 2009 recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s Palmer O. Johnson award for the highest quality of academic scholarship published in one of the four AERA journals during the 2008 volume year. The award is for "Winners and Losers: Changes in Texas University Admissions post-Hopwood," with Marta Tienda, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 30(3), pp. 255-280, September 2008.

Stewart Tolnay – Featured Speaker at UCLA Population Center
Stewart Tolnay was the featured speaker at The California Population Research Seminar Series, UCLA, on April 15, 2009. His presentation was entitled: "Was Anyone Safe? Individual and Household Characteristics of Lynch Victims in the American South, 1882-1930."

CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST

India Ministry of Commerce Delegation – India Rising
Henry M. Jackson School and Trade Alliance

India is a mixture of cultures, religions and economies, making it an important country for the Greater Seattle region to examine. The largest democracy in the world and second-largest country (second only to China in population), India has moved onto the world stage in the last ten years, buoyed by success in information technology, a strategic location and the benefits of expanding globalization. The World Bank ranks India's GDP of $1,171 billion in 2007. It is an ancient country full of youth, with 33 percent of Indians under the age of 15 years. India also has a growing middle class making it an important current and future trading partner for our region, with Washington exports totaling over $2.3 billion in 2008. Top export commodities from Washington State to India are transportation equipment, computers and electronic products and wood/paper products. Many small to medium sized companies from the Greater Seattle region have significant business interests in India and some are already actively doing business with the country.

Join the Trade Alliance and Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies as we learn more about this growing economy.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
8:00 – 9:30 am
The Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce
1301 5th Avenue, Suite 2500

More information is here.

Presentation of CSSS Courses for 2009-2010 Academic Year
CSSS Seminar Series
Presentation of CSSS Courses for 2009-2010 Academic Year

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
12:30 – 1:20 pm
Denny 401

More information is here.

Lawrence Repeta – Seeking Justice Through International Institutions

Law Through Global Eyes Lecture Series
The Law School’s Asian Law Center, The Center for Human Rights and Justice and the International Law Society
Lawrence Repeta, Garvey Schubert Barer Visiting Professor of Asian Law
Seeking Justice Through International Institutions -- A Look at the Efforts of Japan’s NGOS Before the UN Human Rights Committee
Will Japan ever achieve full gender equality, eliminate authoritarian police practices and otherwise deliver real guarantees for the fundamental human rights proclaimed by its laws? Many Japanese human rights lawyers and activists believe that one important path forward lies through international institutions, especially those created under the auspices of the United Nations. Recent developments suggest cause for hope. In the latest round of an ongoing battle to enforce international norms in Japan, lawyers and activists presented a powerful case before the UN Human Rights Committee. Their work led to October 2008 comments from the Committee that included stinging criticisms of Japan’s failures to take action to remedy several longstanding human rights problems. Professor Repeta will describe the work of the NGOs, especially the role played by the national bar association, and the significance of UN treaty monitoring in Japan.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
12:30 – 1:20 pm
William H. Gates Hall 117

More information is here.

Ian Riley – Health and Medical Research in Papua New Guinea
IHME Seminar Series
Ian Riley, Professor Emeritus, University of Queensland, Australia
Health and Medical Research in Papua New Guinea

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
4:00 – 5:30 pm
IHME Offices

More information is here.

Rowan Ellis – Civil Society, Savage City: The Depoliticization of Dispossession in Chennai, India
Geography Colloquium
Rowan Ellis, Department of Geography, University of Washington
Civil Society, Savage City: The Depoliticization of Dispossession in Chennai, India

Friday, April 24, 2009
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Smith 304

More information is here.

Dr. Shin Doh Chull – Democratization in East Asia: A Cultural Perspective
Dr. Shin Doh Chull, Korea Foundation Chair of Political Science, University of Missouri
Center for Korea Studies
Democratization in East Asia: A Cultural Perspective

Within the scholarly community and policy making circles, there is a growing consensus that popular support for democracy is essential for the transformation of authoritarian political systems into fully functioning democracies. This study assesses the progress Korea and other East Asian countries have made in building nations of democratic citizens. Several important questions have been addressed. How well do their mass publics understand democracy? How deep, broad, and unconditional is the commitment of those publics to democracy? To address these and other related questions from a comparative perspective, we analyzed the latest, second round of the Asian Barometer surveys conducted in 12 East and Southeast Asian countries. We also analyzed the latest, fifth round of the World Values surveys conducted in 56 countries. Preliminary analyses of these surveys reveal that East Asians are cognitively capable of understanding democracy, but are limited in their commitment to it.

Friday, April 24, 2009
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Thomson Hall 317

More information is here.

Joe Weis – "Just the Facts, Ma’am”: Investigating Murder Myths
Professor Joe Weis, UW sociology, discusses the myths surrounding murder. Many people believe the Pacific NW is the serial murder capital of the world; the violent crime rate continues to spiral upward; this is the most dangerous time to live in U.S. history. This list of apparent “facts” is incomplete & may not be true. Empirical research allows us to investigate the accuracy of common beliefs about murder.

Friday, April 24, 2009
7:00 - 9:00 PM
UW Club Lecture Room

Registration requested at www.soc.washington.edu/RSVP using the word “murder”.

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam – Various Lectures
Jackson School of International Studies, The South Asia Center

We are pleased to announce the visit of Honorable APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of the Republic of India. President Kalam is the India Distinguished Visitor for 2009.

Dr. Kalam was the eleventh President of India, serving from 2002 to 2007. Before his term as India's president, he worked as an engineer with Defence Research and Development Organization and Indian Space Research Organization and was awarded India's highest civilian honor Bharat Ratna. He is a professor at Anna University (Chennai) and adjunct/visiting faculty at many other academic and research institutions across India. The theme of his visit as the third India Distinguished Visitor to the University of Washington is Dynamics of Unity of Nations.

Dr. Kalam will be making several public appearances in the Seattle area, including:

University of Washington: Dynamics of Education and Confluence of Civilisations
Friday, April 24, 6:30 PM, Kane Hall 210, UW Campus

India Association : Evolution of Enlightened Societies for World Peace.
Saturday April 25, 1:00 PM, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle

These events are free of charge and open to the public.

More information is here.

Peter Lape – Some Things I Learned at the Intersections of Archaeology, Eating, and Domestic Violence
Anthropological Epistemologies of Health and Healing
Peter Lape, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology; Curator of Archaeology, Burke Museum
Some Things I Learned at the Intersections of Archaeology, Eating, and Domestic Violence

Monday, April 27, 2009
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Denny Hall 401

More information is here.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

NIH Small Research Grant Program (Parent R03)
(PA-09-163)
National Institutes of Health
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple receipt dates, see announcement.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Investigator-Initiated Small Grant (R03) funding opportunity supports small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. Investigator-initiated research, also known as unsolicited research, is research funded as a result of an investigator submitting a research grant application to NIH in an investigator’s area of interest and competency. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.

NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (Parent R21)
(PA-09-164)
National Institutes of Health
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple receipt dates, see announcement.

The Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) mechanism is intended to encourage exploratory and developmental research projects by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of these projects. These studies may involve considerable risk but may lead to a breakthrough in a particular area, or to the development of novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or applications that could have a major impact on a field of biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research.

NCMHD Exploratory Centers of Excellence (P20)
(RFA-MD-09-005)
National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities
Application Receipt Date(s): June 19, 2009

This FOA issued by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), National Institutes of Health solicits grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose to establish an Exploratory NCMHD Center of Excellence (COE) to support infrastructure and capacity building, building and sustaining novel partnerships, training, innovative basic biomedical and behavioral clinical, or population-based research and intervention and prevention studies contributing to either the improvement of minority health, the elimination of health disparities, or both. To be eligible for the COE in this FOA, applicant institutions must have existing federal research support and/or research infrastructure as reflected in a level of NIH institutional funding of less than $80 million for the year 2008.

Research on Teen Dating Violence (R01) (R21)
(PA-09-169)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages investigator-initiated research grant applications from institutions/ organizations that propose to conduct behavioral and/or biomedical research aimed at better understanding the etiologies and precursors for, reducing risk for, and incidence of, teen dating violence (TDV). Research is also sought that examines the linkages and gaps among perceptions of appropriate responses to teen dating violence from service providers, the criminal justice system, teens themselves, victims, perpetrators and bystanders.

There is also an R21 announcement.
(PA-09-170)

HHMI Undergraduate Program – Limited Solicitation
HHMI’s Undergraduate Science Education Program is announcing its seventh competition for research universities. The mission and needs of each institution vary widely. HHMI grants therefore support a range of activities that engage students in research; create courses that convey the excitement of contemporary science; develop new, current, and future faculty members; and broaden access to science careers through outreach activities that extend to elementary, high school, and community college faculty and students. Through this competition, HHMI seeks to support the very best initiatives in undergraduate science education and develop innovative ways to energize and reform science education at research universities.

Program Areas
Core Grants: The undergraduate science education program enables institutions to develop effective ways to enhance the success of all students, including persons from groups that are underrepresented in science. The core grant will provide funding in four components:
·        Student Research
·        Faculty Development
·        Curriculum Development
·        Outreach and Transitions

Core grants up to $2.2 million over four years will be announced in May 2010.

Program Objectives
HHMI’s 2010 undergraduate grant program will support initiatives that strengthen science education by a variety of strategies to:
•         integrate research and teaching in undergraduate education;
•         engage students in inquiry-based science;
•         prepare undergraduates, including women and members of minority groups underrepresented in the sciences, for graduate studies and careers in biomedical research, medicine, and science education;
•         promote science literacy among all students;
•         support new and high-quality approaches and techniques in science teaching;
•         enhance precollege education by connecting university science departments with education majors, preK–12 teachers, students and schools;
•         provide substantive teaching and mentoring experiences to prepare postdoctoral fellows and graduate students for future roles as educators;
•         provide opportunities and resources for faculty members to improve their teaching skills, course materials, and mentorship;
•         encourage collaborations and partnerships that expand opportunities and share resources, including partnerships between the applicant institution and other institutions that serve important constituencies;
•         disseminate successful science education approaches and tools.

Experiments in Undergraduate Science Education Grants: Core Grant applicants also may apply for additional support to engage in innovative experiments in undergraduate science education. Proposals are encouraged that try nontraditional ways to address challenges in science education—even if the outcome of the experiment is uncertain or there is a significant risk of failure. Each proposed experiment should be hypothesis-driven, with a rationale based on sound interpretation of available data, and include a careful description of how the results of the experiment will contribute to the understanding of the problem even if the hypothesis is disproved. Experiments can augment a core grant but the core program proposal should not depend on the Experiment.

Experiment Grants up to $600,000 will be made over four years.

UW Proposal Submission and Review Process

The UW may submit one core grant proposal and one experiment proposal. To be considered, please submit the following pre-proposal materials in hard copy or by email to Peggy Fanning in the Office of Research, Box 351202 or to pfanning@u.washington.edu no later than 5:00 PM on Friday, June 19, 2009:

1.      A two-page overview that summarizes your proposed project(s) and how your approach will meet the objectives of the HHMI Core Grant Program, including targeted groups, number of participants, and anticipated outcomes.
2.      A one or two page overview of experiment(s) associated with your Core Grant request, including specific strategies you will use for assessing the outcomes of the experiment, and plans for dissemination of findings.
3.      A one-page summary from each investigator describing their contributions to the project.
4.      A one or two page CV for each investigator.

For information about this competition, including a list of invited institutions and descriptions of programs funded in previous competitions, go to www.hhmi.org/universities.

CALLS FOR PAPERS

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender, Sexuality, and Power
The Center for Gender Equity and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Pacific University presents "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender, Sexuality, and Power," its first annual conference for untenured faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates to present their work in a collaborative and supportive environment.

This conference bridges interdisciplinary divides by bringing original work from the natural and social sciences, humanities and the arts together in one forum. We encourage submissions from scholars committed to exploring the operation of power through gender and sexuality from multiple disciplinary frameworks. We are particularly interested in works that investigate the relationship between power and knowledge, bodies, subjectivities, and everyday experiences. It takes place:

October 16 - 17, 2009
Pacific University, Forest Grove Oregon

Suggested topics include considering gender, sexuality and power as they relate to: global and transnational contexts, education, sport, media, intersections with other forms of social power (such as race, class, and age), heteronormativity and sex-essentialism, strategies of governance, nationalism, geography/space, science and the body, and processes of socialization.

Submissions: Please email proposals, abstracts, or full papers as attachments to the conference committee at whitehej@pacificu.edu by May 1st, 2009.

More information is here.

IEAS Conference on Contemporary European and American Societies
The Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS) of Academia Sinica will hold the IEAS Conference on Contemporary European and American Societies on 10 September 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan. This conference will be the first of a series of biennial conferences providing a forum for social scientists from Taiwan and around the world interested in contemporary European and American societies to exchange ideas and research findings.

We invite submissions of research papers or extended abstracts (which should be detailed enough for the organizers to judge the merits of the paper) on any topic related to issues in contemporary European and American societies. Please submit the paper or extended abstract electronically to ieassoc@sinica.edu.tw before 15 May 2009. The organizers will notify the authors about whether a paper is accepted by 31 May 2009. Some travel awards are available.

More information is here.

CONFERENCES

2009 Women on the Other Side of the Lens: Conference on Spanish Cinema
Center for West European Studies

On Friday, April 24, the Center for West European Studies, with the Division of Spanish and Portuguese and the Instituto Cervantes, will bring together a Spanish woman film director and four distinguished scholars of Spanish film, to discuss women on the other side of the lens in Spanish film: directors, editors, cinematographers. These visionary cinematic voices are rarely heard, and their distinctive angle often refreshes and surprises audiences. Five new features and short films allow viewers to explore the diverse array of themes women in film are confronted with and expand traditional notions of “women’s issues.”

Friday, April 24, 2009
1:00 – 7:00 pm
Walker Ames Room and Gowen 201

More information is here.

Place, Health, and Equity Conference
Sponsored by CSDE and other UW Departments

The Place, Health and Equity Conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars at the cutting edge of research and scholarship on the intersections of place, racial and social inequity, and human well-being. Surging interest in place as a social context that is deeply connected to larger patterns of social advantage and disadvantage calls for multifaceted conceptions of place as well as methods that can flexibly encompass geographic location, material form, the meaning-making of diverse groups, and the dynamics of rapidly changing rural and urban environments. The Place, Health and Equity Conference aims to move the study of place forward by focusing lively interdisciplinary attention on new conceptual and methodological directions. Breakfast and refreshments will be provided.

May 7-8, 2009
8:30 am – 5:00 pm
HUB Room 310 (May 7), Room 106B (May 8)

More information and registration are here.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Director of the Mental Health Services and Policy Program – Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University's (NU) Feinberg School of Medicine invites applications for a full-time faculty position as Director of the Mental Health Services and Policy Program (MHSPP). This program has established contracts with child welfare, mental health, education, and juvenile justice agencies, with great opportunity for growth in external funding. The Feinberg School of Medicine is located on NU's Chicago lakefront campus and has a rapidly expanding research portfolio and opportunities for collaboration, including NU's Institute for Healthcare Studies. The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has multidisciplinary faculty with strong research, clinical, and teaching programs. For more information, see www.feinberg.northwestern.edu.

Application Deadline: July 1, 2009
More information about application is here.

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

Dissertation Fellowships – West Coast Poverty Center
The West Coast Poverty Center, jointly sponsored by the U.W. School of Social Work, the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, and the College of Arts and Sciences, invites applications from U.W. doctoral students for the 2009-2010 West Coast Poverty Center Dissertation Fellowships.

The Center will award one quarter of support for up to three doctoral students conducting outstanding research on poverty, poverty-related issues, and anti-poverty policy in the U.S.

AWARD: The one-quarter Dissertation Fellowships will provide tuition and a stipend for Winter, Spring, or Summer 2010.

ELIGIBILITY: Quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method approaches are all encouraged as are submissions from scholars in any discipline. Applicant must be Ph.D. student in good standing at the University of Washington. Applicant must have advanced to candidacy and have an approved dissertation plan at the start of the funding period. Priority will be given to applicants finishing their dissertations within 12 months of the start of funding.

Applications are due Friday, June 5, 2009, 5:00 p.m.

More information is here.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transitions into the Labor Force, Marriage and Biological Fatherhood – Johns Hopkins University
The Center for Adolescent Health and the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are pleased to announce our search for a postdoctoral fellow for a two-year appointment beginning June 1, 2009, a second year may be possible, contingent on funding. This fellowship specifically involves analysis of the interrelationships among work, marriage, and fatherhood using Latent Class Analysis and Latent Transition Analysis with large, nationally representative longitudinal surveys including the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1979 Cohort (NLSY79) and the National Survey of Adolescent Males (NSAM).

This is an excellent opportunity for a PhD scholar interested in men's lives from adolescence into middle adulthood. Mentoring will be provided by a team of faculty members with expertise in adolescence, sexual risk-taking behaviors, STDs, romantic relationships, fathering, and the transition to adulthood. The fellow will join the research team and collaborate on manuscripts. In conjunction with the team, the fellow will develop his/her independent research on topics of interest targeted in the NSAM data. These data are rich in terms of men's sexual behaviors, sexually transmitted disease histories, fathering practices, romantic relationships, illicit drug use, and various attitudes collected first when men were aged 15 to 19. Data from the most recent fourth wave will extend our understanding of these topics for men ages 32 to 38.

More information is here.

Post-Doctoral Fellow – Brown University, Archaeology
The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship.

While appropriate training in archaeology and/or art history is required, the nature of an applicant's specific research interests, geographical and temporal specializations and areas of expertise is left open, though these should be complementary to the present makeup of the Joukowsky Institute. In addition to pursuing their research, the successful candidate will be expected to teach half time -- one course per semester. Teaching will be at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; interdisciplinary offerings are desirable. Applicants must normally have received their Ph.D. from an institution other than Brown within the last five years. The successful candidate will be expected to make substantive contributions to the ongoing development of the Joukowsky Institute, such the organization of reading or working groups, a topical symposium, or another project intended to foster a stimulating intellectual environment in which to pursue research and to develop new interdisciplinary connections. This will be a one-year position, beginning on July 1, 2009.

Application deadline: 5/8/2009

More information is here.

SuperComputing Education Program Summer Workshops
The SuperComputing (SC) Education Program is a year-long program working with undergraduate faculty and students (undergraduate and graduate) to integrate computational science and high performance computing and communications technologies highlighted through the SC Conference into the preparation of future scientists, technologists, engineers, mathematicians and teachers.

The SC Education Program hosts about 10 week-long workshops each summer covering a variety of topics in parallel and distributed computing and computational thinking, and computational {biology, chemistry, physics, engineering}. The workshops are primarily funded through the SC conference series, attendees are only responsible for their travel and a fully refunded registration deposit.

Information about each workshop and registration are available at http://sc-education.org/workshops/schedule.php Registration is open now.

Our goal is to help faculty infuse their curriculum with parallel/distributed/cluster/computational material. Questions can be directed to workshops@sc-education.org

University of Washington Press Workshop – Publishing Your First Book
Presented by the staff of University of Washington Press, this workshop—intended for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty—introduces the process of publishing your scholarly monograph in today’s challenging information marketplace. You will learn what publishers want from authors, how to turn a dissertation into a book manuscript, and how you can prepare material that will interest an acquisitions editor, please peer reviewers, and successfully navigate the copyediting and production process. A panel of local authors will discuss their experiences and answer questions.

May 6, 2008
2:00 - 4:30 pm
UW Tower Auditorium (former Safeco Tower Bldg., NE 45th St. and Brooklyn)

Please RSVP to ddclark@u.washington.edu.

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST

PRB Discuss Online: “A Call to Action: World Malaria Day 2009”
When: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 1-2 p.m. (EDT)

Who: Dr. Joel Breman, senior scientific advisor, Fogarty International Center, U.S. National Institutes of Health

Malaria threatens close to one-half of the world’s population, and more than 1 million children die each year of malaria-related complications. In sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 250,000 pregnant women die annually: Up to 30 percent of these deaths are due to hemorrhage, with malaria often an important contributing factor. Eliminating malaria has proved elusive given the inadequate infrastructure and health systems in many of the countries where the disease is most prevalent.

But there are effective ways to combat malaria even in low-income countries. Join malaria expert and epidemiologist Joel Breman of the Fogarty International Center, U.S. National Institutes of Health, as he answers your questions about the challenge of eradicating malaria: What countries are most at risk? What are cost-effective ways to reduce exposure? How can we reduce the health burden of malaria? What breakthrough research is needed to break the back of malaria?

Joel Breman’s research has addressed quantifying the burden of malaria; determining the efficacy and effectiveness of antimalarial drugs for treatment and prevention; and evaluating the effect of personal protection methods (insecticide-treated nets and curtains) and other forms of vector control. He has trained, mentored, and collaborated with scientists and public health workers in over 20 countries in Africa in developing national malaria control policies, programs, and guidelines. Dr. Breman has been the lead editor of three volumes of articles on malaria published as supplements to the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; and was lead author of the malaria chapter in Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2d ed. (www.dcp2.org).

Where: http://discuss.prb.org. You may submit questions in advance and during the discussion. A full transcript of the questions and answers will be posted after the discussion.