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- CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR
- CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS
- CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
- FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
- CALLS FOR PAPERS
- CONFERENCES
- TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
- OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR
Elvin Wyly – Subprime Spaces of America
Elvin Wyly, University of British Columbia
Subprime Spaces of America
Friday, May 29, 2009
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Parrington Hall Forum
CSDE Seminar Schedule
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CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS
Jennifer Romich Cited in CQ Weekly
Jennifer Romich is cited and her research on the
earned-income tax credit is described in the May 18, 2009, issue of CQ Weekly.
Read the article here.
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CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
Carlos Carvalho – Handling Sparsity via the Horseshoe
CSSS Seminar Series
Carlos Carvalho, Assistant Professor of Econometrics & Statistics, The
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Handling Sparsity via the Horseshoe
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
12:30 – 1:20 pm
Denny 401
More information is here.
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Michael Pratt – An Evidence-Based Approach to Global Promotion of Physical Activity and Chronic Disease Prevention
IHME Seminar Series
Michael Pratt, Director, CDC/WHO Collaborating Center for Physical Activity and
Health; Acting Chief, Physical Activity and Health Branch, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
An Evidence-Based Approach to Global Promotion of Physical Activity and Chronic
Disease Prevention
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
4:00 – 5:30 pm
IHME Offices
More information is here.
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Edwin Wong – Measuring Genetic Hazard Risk in the Health and Retirement Study
Department of Economics Brownbag Seminar
Edwin Wong
Measuring Genetic Hazard Risk in the Health and Retirement Study
Thursday, May 28, 2009
12:30 pm
Condon 309
More information is here.
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Celeste Watkins-Hayes – The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform
WCPC Seminar Series
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American
Studies, Northwestern University
The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform
Monday, June 1, 2009
3:00 – 4:00 pm
Parrington Hall Forum 309
More information is here.
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Sociological Initiatives Foundation Grants
The Sociological Initiatives Foundation was
established in 1999 to support research that furthers social change. The
Foundation specifically supports research that focuses on:
* Clear social policy objectives
* Institutional and educational practices
* Legislative and regulatory changes
* Organizing previously unorganized groups
* Building collective community capacity and/or power (such as expanding
membership base)
* Linguistic issues, such as literacy, language maintenance and expansion,
multilingualism and its implications, and their possible intersection with
social and policy issues.
Letter of Intent: 8/15/2009
Application Deadline: 11/15/2009
More information is here.
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Fulbright Specialist Program
The Fulbright Specialists Program, a short-term
complement to the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, sends U.S. faculty
and professionals to serve as expert consultants on curriculum, faculty
development, institutional planning, and related subjects at overseas academic
institutions for a period of 2 to 6 weeks.
More information is here.
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NSF Delays Transition to Grants .gov for Proposal Submissions
Due to an expected increase in Grants.gov
submissions relating to the processing of Recovery Act proposals, the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) has authorized agencies to use alternative methods
for proposal submission and acceptance. As you know, NSF is able to accept
directly its full complement of proposals, both regular submissions and those
additional proposals anticipated under the Recovery Act, using our
long-established FastLane capabilities for proposal submission and acceptance.
Therefore, in order to assist Grants.gov in the effort to alleviate system
strain and increase system capacity, proposers will now be required to prepare
and submit proposals to NSF through use of the NSF FastLane system.
Effective immediately, new funding opportunities issued by NSF will exclusively
require the use of FastLane to prepare and submit proposals. In addition, NSF
plans to revise existing funding opportunity documents to reflect this change
and to remove all active application packages from Grants.gov APPLY. NSF will
continue to post information about available funding opportunities to
Grants.gov FIND.
Detailed instructions regarding the technical aspects of proposal preparation
and submission via FastLane are available at: http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/.
If you have any questions regarding this change, please contact the Policy
Office on 703.292.8243 or by e-mail to policy@nsf.gov.
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Update From OSP on Administrative Support for ARRA Programs
Recently OMB responded to the COGR request to
include direct costs for administrative support on ARRA funded projects. While their earlier indication was that the
request would be approved, we are disappointed to hear that administrative
costs will not be allowable. The current communication stated that we could not
request administrative support as a direct cost unless it fell under the normal
A-21 waiver.
If the project is a large project with multiple thrusts or requires extensive
travel or conference, a waiver may be appropriate, otherwise the ARRA
administrative costs are being considered indirect costs.
If you have already submitted proposals that included administrative costs OSP
will manage the change at time of award. It appears that different sponsors,
including different NIH Institutes, may handle eliminating costs differently.
Some may ask for re-budgeting without reducing the total award while others may
reduce the award by the amount requested for administrative support. Whichever
method is used, OSP will manage the change at time of award.
If additional questions arise, don’t hesitate to contact Lynne Chronister or
Tami Sadusky at uw-arra@u.washington.edu.
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CALLS FOR PAPERS
2010 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence
Interested in submitting for the 2010 program?
Submission Website will open June 1, 2009.
The SRA Executive Council and Program Committee invite submissions for the 13th
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) to be held at
the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Hotel, March 11-13, 2010. Meeting sessions will begin at 8:00 AM on
Thursday and end at 5:45 PM on Saturday. Preconference sessions will be held on
Wednesday, March 10. Persons
with an interest in adolescence, whatever their discipline, are encouraged to
submit. Empirical, theoretical, historical, and methodological submissions
related to adolescence are welcome. We also welcome student--graduate and
undergraduate--submissions. The Program Committee and the Executive Council of
SRA strongly advocate the interdisciplinary and international character of the
Society through its Biennial Meetings. For more information about SRA and the
13th Biennial Meeting, please visit our website.
Deadlines:
Posters: August 14, 2009
All other formats: August 21, 2009
More information about submitting is here.
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CONFERENCES
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.
June 4 – 5, 2009
Kane 225
More information is here.
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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Post-Doctoral Position – University of Utah, Demography of Aging
The Institute of Public and International
Affairs (IPIA) at the University
of Utah is seeking to
fill a post-doctoral position in Demography of Aging. Within this general area, the successful
candidate will have research interests that intersect with one or more of the
following broadly viewed subjects: biodemography, migration, developing and/or
emerging societies, health/disability/mortality, population aging.
The successful candidate will be expected to work with researchers affiliated
with IPIA on Demography of Aging projects and within an interdisciplinary
environment. The position could begin early as August, 2009. It will run for
twelve months with the possibility of a 12 month renewal upon adequate
progress.
More information is here.
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OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
Population Reference Bureau – Online Discussion: How Family Planning Can Save More Lives
Family planning saves the lives of millions of
women and infants every year in developing countries. But it could save many
more. Family planning could prevent up to one-third of all maternal deaths by
allowing women to delay motherhood, space births, avoid unintended pregnancies
and unsafely performed abortions, and stop childbearing when women have reached
their desired family size.
Join PRB's James Gribble, vice president of International Programs, and Rhonda
Smith, associate vice president of International Programs, as they answer your
questions about how family planning saves lives and improves health for women
and children. And they will address how these programs could do even more.
Gribble and Smith are co-authors of the newest edition of Family Planning Saves
Lives and have worked on reproductive health issues in many developing
countries.
The discussion will be held at 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.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
1:00 – 2:00 pm
http://discuss.prb.org
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