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- CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR
- CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS
- CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
- FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
- CONFERENCES
- EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR
Lucie Schmidt – Utilization of Infertility Treatments: The Effects of Insurance Mandates
Lucie Schmidt, Williams College
Utilization of Infertility Treatments: The Effects of Insurance Mandates
Friday, May 15, 2009
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Parrington Hall Forum
CSDE Seminar Schedule
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CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS
Sam Clark and Kathy O’Connor Awarded CSDE Seed Grants
CSDE’s small grants program has awarded seed
grants to affiliates Sam Clark and Kathy O’Connor. Clark's project, "A New
Look at Indirect Methods for Estimating Demographic Indicators: Evaluation,
Validation and Reformulation," will study methods to improve estimation of
key demographic indicators in Africa.
"Health Initiatives for Men," O’Connor's project, will examine
incentives and barriers that influence men’s health behaviors.
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Jennifer Stuber Quoted in UW News
Jennifer Stuber, lead author of a new report on
how mental health is covered in the state's newspapers, is
quoted in a recent UW News.
Read the article here.
The project website is here.
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CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
Mayetri Gupta – Prior Elicitation and Variable Selection in High Dimensional Regression Models
CSSS Seminar Series
Mayetri Gupta, Assistant Professor, Boston University Department of
Biostatistics
Prior Elicitation and Variable Selection in High Dimensional Regression Models
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
12:30 – 1:20 pm
Denny 401
More information is here.
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Jeff Probstfield – INTERHEART
IHME Seminar Series
Jeff Probstfield, Professor, University of Washington, Medicine, Division of
Cardiology
INTERHEART
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
4:00 – 5:30 pm
IHME Offices
More information is here.
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Chris Mooney – Dumb, Getting Dumber? The Cost of Scientific Illiteracy
Chris Mooney, author
Dumb, Getting Dumber? The Cost of
Scientific Illiteracy
A public forum featuring Chris Mooney, author of the coming book “Unscientific
America,” and local experts on science, education, policy and the economy. The
event is sponsored by Northwest Science Writers, a nonprofit devoted to science
literacy. Free and open to all.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
7:00 pm
Pacific Science Center, Eames Theatre
More information is here.
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Daniel HoSang – Abstracting Race from Space: Discrimination and Property Rights on the 1964 California Ballot
Geography Colloquium
Daniel HoSang, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Political Science and
Ethnic Studies
Abstracting Race from Space: Discrimination and Property Rights on the 1964
California Ballot
Friday, May 15, 2009
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Smith 304
More information is here.
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Michael Strausz – Foreign Residents and Falling Birthrates: Why Has Japan Discouraged Immigration and Naturalization?
East
Asia Center
and Japan Studies Program
Michael Strausz, Assistant Professor, Texas
Christian University,
Political Science
Foreign Residents and Falling Birthrates: Why Has Japan Discouraged Immigration and
Naturalization?
Monday, May 18, 2009
12:00 – 1:15 pm
Thomson Hall 317
More information is here.
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Margaret O’Mara – Poverty and Suburbs: A Historical Perspective
WCPC Seminar Series
Margaret O’Mara, Assistant Professor, University of Washington,
History
Poverty and Suburbs: A Historical Perspective
Monday, May 18, 2009
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Parrington Hall Forum 309
More information is here.
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Rachel Chapman – Closing Session
Anthropological Epistemologies of Health and
Healing
Rachel Chapman
Closing Session
Monday, May 18, 2009
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Denny 401
More information is here.
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Academic Research Infrastructure Program: Recovery and Reinvestment (ARI-R²)
NSF 09-562
Full Proposal Deadline: August 24, 2009
As a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, NSF will
invest $200 million in the Nation's research facilities and research training
infrastructure. This investment will advance the science and engineering
research enterprise at many institutions.
The purpose of this program is to enhance the Nation's existing research
facilities where sponsored and/or unsponsored research activities and research
training take place to enable next-generation research infrastructure that
integrates shared resources across user communities. Consistent with NSF's
mission to strengthen the U.S. science and engineering enterprise, the ARI-R²
program will:
* Update existing research facilities at institutions of
higher education (including graduate and undergraduate institutions, among
which are included community colleges) and other non-profit research
organizations (e.g., independent research museums, independent research
laboratories, and research consortia) in order to support research that can
address the challenges of the 21st century.
* Enable academic departments, disciplinary and
cross-disciplinary units, or multi-organization consortia to renovate research
facilities through the addition or augmentation of cyberinfrastructure, other
than general-purpose computing systems or data storage systems, to create
environments that enhance research and integrate research with education.
* Improve access to and increase use of next-generation
research facilities for researchers, educators and students.
* Assist research organizations, including those that have
historically received limited Federal research and development funds, to
improve their science and engineering research environments.
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Major Research Instrumentation Program: Recovery and Reinvestment (MRI-R²)
NSF 09-561
Full Proposal Deadline: August 10, 2009
The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access to
shared scientific and engineering instruments for research and research
training in our Nation's institutions of higher education, museums and science
centers, and not-for-profit organizations. This program especially seeks to
improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training in
science and engineering, by providing shared instrumentation that fosters the
integration of research and education in research-intensive learning
environments. Development and acquisition of research instrumentation for
shared inter- and/or intra-organization use are encouraged, as are development
efforts that leverage the strengths of private sector partners to build
instrument development capacity at academic institutions.
For this MRI-R2 competition only, proposals will be accepted for instrument
development or for acquisition of a single instrument or a system of related
instruments that share a common or specific research focus in the range
$100,000-$6 million from Ph.D.-granting institutions of higher education and
non-degree-granting organizations; up to $6 million (there is no minimum
request) from non-Ph.D.-granting institutions of higher education or the
disciplines of mathematical sciences or social, behavioral, and economic
sciences at any eligible organization.
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CONFERENCES
“The New Politics of Community”: American Sociological Association – 2009 Annual Meeting
Traditionally, the concept of community referenced
geographically specific, culturally homogeneous, and seemingly natural entities
such as families, villages, academic disciplines, neighborhoods, races, and
religious groups. Whether by choice or by force, people belonged to one primary
community and such communities were typically ranked. The massive social
changes of the post-World War II era changed all of this. The growth of global
capital marketplaces and their ensuing population migrations, the successes and
failures of the civil rights, feminist and similar social movements for social
justice, the rapid emergence of new technologies of transportation and
communication, and the increased attention to security and surveillance of the
post-9/11 period all greatly transformed traditional understandings of
community. No longer seen as naturally occurring, apolitical spaces of home and
homeland populated by people who belong, communities of all sorts now
constitute sites of political engagement and contestation.
In this context, the term community resonates throughout social policy, popular
culture, and everyday social interaction in ways that generate dynamic social
and political identities. People understand community in diverse ways: from the
face-to-face interactions of small group dynamics, to the contested communities
of schools, workplaces and other organizations, to the large-scale imagined
political communities of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nation-state and
diaspora. The social practices of community catalyze new meanings of freedom –
for example, youth with access to computers construct new virtual communities
in cyberspace whereas others seek to escape the confines of their inner city
neighborhoods. The ideal of community also holds significance for quite
different populations with competing political agendas – political groups of
the right and left invoke ideas of community, yet have very different
definitions in mind. These practices among others reveal how the idea of
community constitutes an elastic social, political and theoretical construct
that holds a variety of contradictory meanings and around which diverse social
practices and understandings occur.
Through the theme of the 2009 Annual Meeting, “The New Politics of Community,”
the Program Committee invites you to consider the significance of these
changing and contradictory understandings of community. We also hope that the
meetings will catalyze the process of building more robust, excellent and
diverse sociological communities. In this sense, when it comes to the
discipline of sociology, the new politics of community constitute both an
object of study and a matter of practice.
August 8 – 11, 2009
Hilton San Francisco and Parc 55 Hotel
San Francisco, CA
Preregistration closes July 1, 2009.
More information and registration are here.
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“Families in a Multicultural World”: National Council of Family Relations – 2009 Annual Conference
The international character of San Francisco, the site for the 2009 NCFR
Conference, will afford an exciting context for examining how diversity issues
affect family scholarship, practice, policy and education and how each of us
might contribute to better understanding of the heterogeneity, as well as the
commonalities of diverse families, not only in the United States, but also
around the globe. This theme encourages comparative work on a variety of family
topics, with particular attention to cross-cultural and international
contributions to these matters. The hope is that scholars, educators and
practitioners might share their varying perspectives on topics of concern to us
all.
November 11 – 14, 2009
Hyatt Regency
San Francisco, CA
More information is here.
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CSSS – Conference on Statistics and the Social Sciences
CSSS was founded in 1999 to galvanize research
and teaching on the interface between statistics and the social sciences, and
was the first center of its kind in the United States. To celebrate its 10th
Anniversary, a conference has been organized for June 4-5, 2009, to be held at
the University of Washington, Seattle,
Washington in the Walker-Ames
Room, Kane Hall, room 225. Registration
is required.
Thursday, June 4 – 5, 2009
Kane 225
More information is here.
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Assistant Professor – Northwestern University, Economics
Teaches graduate level courses in economics including,
but not limited to: managerial statistics, microeconomic theory and competitive
strategy. Pursues independent academic research in the area of microeconomic
theory with concentration in game theory. Advises students and publishes
research.
More information is here.
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Instructor – Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Human Geography
The Geography Department invites applications
for a 1 year, non-regular type 2 (50%) position in Human Geography beginning
September, 2009. Expertise in Economic Geography and Resource Management,
preferably with a focus on rural and small communities, is required. The
ability to teach Regional Geography courses for areas outside North
America would also be an asset. A Ph.D. in Geography is preferred,
but ABD candidates will also be considered.
More information is here.
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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Postdoctoral Opportunity – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health &
Society Scholars program provides two years of support to postdoctoral scholars
at all stages of their careers to build the nation’s capacity for research and
leadership to address the multiple determinants of population health and contribute
to policy change. The program is based on the principle that progress in the
field of population health depends upon multidisciplinary collaboration and
exchange. Its goal is to improve health by training scholars to:
* investigate the connections among biological, genetic, behavioral,
environmental, economic and social determinants of health; and
* develop, evaluate and disseminate knowledge and interventions that integrate
and act on these determinants to improve health.
The program is intended to produce leaders who will change the questions asked,
the methods employed to analyze problems and the range of solutions to reduce
population health disparities and improve the health of all Americans.
Application Deadline: October 2, 2009
More information is here.
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Postdoctoral Fellowship – Mills College
The Civic Engagement Research Group (CERG) at Mills College
invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship funded by a grant from the
MacArthur Foundation. The research focuses on the civic and political
dimensions of young people's engagement with digital media.
The Postdoctoral Fellow will be responsible for statistical analyses,
literature reviews, and collaborating with CERG's Director for analysis and
write-up of findings related to a panel survey of young people's digital media
use and civic/political engagement. The position offers opportunities for both
conference presentations and scholarly publication. The appointment is one year
(full-time) with a potential for renewal. Application review begins May 11,
2009 and continues until the position is filled.
More information is here.
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