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- CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTLIGHTS
- CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS
- CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
- FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
- CALLS FOR PAPERS
- EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
- OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTLIGHTS
eNews is Moving to Summer Schedule
The CSDE eNews will be published every other
week starting today for the duration of the summer quarter. We will resume the
weekly schedule in late September.
Have a great summer!
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CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS
Amelia Gavin's Research on Depressed Mood and Premature Birth is Described in US News & World Report
Amelia Gavin's
new study on pre-pregnancy depressed mood as a risk factor in premature birth,
and the role that this factor may have in black women's high rate of premature
births, is described in a June 16 US News
& World Report online article.
Read the article here.
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Kerry MacQuarrie Receives an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
CSDE Fellow Kerry MacQuarrie
has received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. This three-year general award will fund her Master’s research in women’s
empowerment and family formation over the life course in India, as well
as her upcoming dissertation research in family demography. Of the 950 first-round awards, Kerry’s was
the only one in demography. Congratulations,
Kerry!
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CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
John Donnelly – On MDR TB
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Donnelly
will be talking about MDR TB, and the faces of MDR TB he has seen in his
travels around the world. Donnelly is based in Washington, D.C.,
specializing in global health and environmental subjects. He is currently a
Kaiser Family Foundation media fellow, writing a book on Americans working to
help African orphans, and is vice president and senior editor at Burness
Communications. From 2003 to mid-2006, he opened and ran the Boston Globe’s
first-ever Africa bureau.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
7:00 pm
Wallingford United Methodist
Church
More information is here.
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Dilys Walker – Why Doctors?
Department of Global Health
Dilys Walker, Associate Professor, National Institute of Health in
Cuernavaca, Department of Reproductive
Health
Why Doctors?: Creating an Evidence Base to Support a Role for Professional Midwives and Obstetric Nurses in Mexican Public Clinics
Friday, June 19, 2009
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Foege Genome Sciences Building S-110
More information is here.
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The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Three Exhibits at the UW Libraries
Three exhibits exploring the legacy of the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition are open at the UW Suzallo/Allen Library.
Capturing the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Frank H. Nowell, Exposition
Photographer
This exhibit focuses on photographer Frank Nowell, and features material about
his life and his photos -- not only of the AYPE, but of his work in Alaska.
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Expositions: When the World Came to Campus
When the World Came to Campus will be a comprehensive exhibit covering all of
the AYPE, from its origins as an idea to promote Seattle through the
transformation of the undeveloped campus into a fairgrounds and the legacy it
left behind for the University.
Women’s Work at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
World fairs were places where women converged and convened for conferences, for
leisure and also for work, whether it was conferencing around issues of
suffrage or temperance or coming to the fairs to be fair workers. This exhibit
will focus particularly on the iconography of women and will feature some
beautiful materials from one of the Alaska Building Collections curated in 1909
by Mary Hart (on loan from Burke
Museum).
The library’s events calendar, which includes the locations and dates of the
exhibits, is here.
More information about the exhibits is here.
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31)
(PA-09-208)
National Institutes of Health
Etc.
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.
The purpose of the predoctoral fellowship (F31) award is to provide support for
promising doctoral candidates who will be performing dissertation research and
training in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the
participating NIH Institutes during the tenure of the award. The Kirschstein-NRSA for Individual
Predoctoral Fellows will provide up to five years of support for research
training which leads to the PhD or equivalent research degree, the combined
MD/PhD degree, or another formally combined professional degree and research
doctoral degree in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical sciences.
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Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
(PA-09-209)
National Institutes of Health
Etc.
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.
The purpose of the F31 predoctoral fellowship to promote diversity in
health-related research is to provide up to five years of support for research
training leading to the PhD or equivalent research degree, the combined MD/PhD
degree; or another formally combined professional degree and research doctoral
degree in biomedical, behavioral, health services, or clinical sciences. These fellowships will enhance the diversity
of the biomedical, behavioral, health services, and clinical research labor
force in the United States
by providing opportunities for academic institutions to identify and recruit
students from diverse population groups to seek graduate degrees in
health-related research and apply for this fellowship. The goal of this program is to increase the
number of scientists from diverse population groups who are prepared to pursue
careers in biomedical, behavioral, social, clinical, or health services
research.
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Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows (F32)
(PA-09-210)
National Institutes of Health
Etc.
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.
The purpose of the postdoctoral fellowship (F32) award is to provide support to
promising postdoctoral applicants who have the potential to become productive
and successful independent research investigators. The proposed postdoctoral
training must offer an opportunity to enhance the applicant's understanding of
the health-related sciences, and must be within the broad scope of biomedical,
behavioral, or clinical research or other specific disciplines relevant to the
research mission of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. Applicants with a health professional
doctoral degree may use the proposed postdoctoral training to satisfy a portion
of the degree requirements for a master's degree, a research doctoral degree or
any other advanced research degree program.
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Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA for Individual Senior Fellows (F33)
(PA-09-211)
National Institutes of Health
Etc.
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.
The purpose of the senior fellowship (F33) award is to provide senior
fellowship support to experienced scientists who wish to make major changes in
the direction of their research careers or who wish to broaden their scientific
background by acquiring new research capabilities as independent research
investigators in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of
the participating NIH Institutes and Centers.
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New Royalty Research Fund Proposal Submission Process
The Office of Research is currently working on a
new Royalty Research Fund (RRF) proposal submission process that will require
all proposals to be submitted using SAGE and an eGC1 starting this fall. System development and testing is proceeding
throughout the next few months and new detailed application instructions will
be posted on the RRF website in mid-August. Please note
that these upcoming submission changes do not affect your ability to currently
prepare your description of research and budget pages.
RRF proposals for the fall round are due on Monday, September 28, by 5:00 PM.
The duties of the RRF program chair are currently transitioning to
Professor Judy Ramey, Human Centered Design and Engineering; Judy will
officially begin serving as chair on September 16, and the Office of Research is thrilled that she
has agreed to lead the program.
Do not hesitate to contact the RRF administrative staff if you have questions;
new applicants should contact Peter Wilsnack, doogieh@u.washington.edu,
(685-9316) and existing awardees should contact Barbara Thompson,
bthompso@u.washington.edu, (616-9089).
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CALLS FOR PAPERS
Journal of Modern Italian Studies – Second-Generation Immigrants in Italy: Segregation or Social Advancement?
The Journal of Modern Italian Studies (JMIS) is
a leading English language forum for debate and discussion on modern Italy. Many
issues are thematically organized, and the JMIS is especially committed to
promoting the study of modern and contemporary Italy in international and
comparative contexts.
A special issue devoted to second-generation immigrants in Italy is
scheduled for publication in early 2011. Jeffrey Cole (Connecticut
College) and Pietro Saitta (University of Messina) are serving as co-editors of
the issue. The theme of immigrant youth
is important at this time for a number of reasons. With immigrants comprising
almost 7% of the Italian population (and a much higher percentage of young
people) and with mass immigration now 20 years old, the numbers of immigrant
youth in Italy
warrant serious attention. Immigrant youth can act as influential agents of
culture change, their identities speak to emerging forms of identity, and their
encounters with the institutions and culture of their new homes have profound
implications for the shape of the future. Will Italian youth of foreign origins
feel disenfranchised and alienated from Italian society, in the manner of North
African youth in France?
Or will they resemble the "immigrant paradox" of the US, where
despite being clustered in poor schools newcomer youth outperform their peers
and enjoy on average good opportunities for upward mobility?
Abstract deadline: July 1, 2009
Completed manuscript deadline: November 15, 2009
More information is here.
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Professor / Associate Professor – Penn State, Institutional Economics and Development
Penn State University's School of International
Affairs invites nominations and applications of established scholars worldwide
for a tenured or tenure track faculty position in institutional economics and
development. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in economics or a related field and
a track record of scholarship and teaching and/or relevant experience in the
World Bank, International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, or other
similar regional organizations.
More information is here.
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Distinguished Visiting Professorship – Amherst College, All Disciplines
Amherst College
seeks nominations and applications from distinguished scholars and teachers
from all disciplines for the College's John Woodruff Simpson Lectureship and
John J. McCloy Professorship. Past holders of the Simpson Lectureship include
Niels Bohr, Henry Steele Commager, Robert Frost, and Archibald MacLeish.
Appointments are flexible and may be for any period up to three years, to teach
one or two courses per semester.
More information is here.
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Research Analyst – Education Statistics Services Institute
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) is a
well-established, not-for-profit social science research and development
organization. Our Education Statistics Services Institute seeks a Research
Analyst to support its client, the National
Center for Education
Statistics (NCES).
The candidate for this work will support current and future project efforts of
the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS)
sponsored by NCES and collected by the Census Bureau. SASS is the nation's most
extensive sample survey of elementary and secondary schools and the teachers
and administrators who staff them. TFS is a follow-up survey of a sub sample of
teachers who participated in the previous year's SASS. The primary purpose of
this project is to assist NCES with all aspects of survey operations, quality
improvement, and data analysis for the two surveys. Work will include designing
and revising questionnaires, quality reviews of data files and documentation,
statistical programming and creation of data tables, answering ad-hoc data
requests, writing of data reports, and other work requested by the client to
support the survey work at its various stages. Candidates for this position
will provide full-time support (40 hours per week) to SASS and TFS tasks.
More information is here.
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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Workshop for Users of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Cross-National Equivalent Files (CNEF)
The Department of Policy Analysis and Management
at Cornell University will hold a workshop to introduce researchers to the
German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Cross-National Equivalent Files
(CNEF). Twenty-four waves of GSOEP data
are available to researchers interested in using this rich panel study. The CNEF currently includes data from six
country's panel studies: the GSOEP, the British Household Panel Study (BHPS),
the Canadian Survey of Income and Labour Dynamics (SLID), the Household Income
and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA), the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and
the United States Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Data from each of these studies have been
extracted and manipulated to facilitate cross-national comparative
research. The resulting subset of
variables from each study constitutes the Cross-National Equivalent Files.
Applications for the workshop should be sent no later than August 1, 2009.
Applications for scholarships should be sent no later than July 15th, 2009.
September 10 – 12, 2009
Cornell University
More information is here.
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OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
Methodspace – A Social Networking Tool for the Research Community
Methodspace is an online community supported by SAGE, where researchers from around the world can gather to discuss
methodology. Signing up is free, and
allows you to read a featured book or journal article of the month, share
your latest methods questions and your work with other researchers, blog about
your latest research methods activities, and look up events, jobs, and calls
for papers that address research methods.
Don’t want to sign up? No problem
– you can still view most of the content posted by others without an
account. Already a member of
Facebook? You can view a limited version
of the content on Methodspace’s Facebook page.
Start exploring Methodspace here.
The privacy policy is here.
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PAA and APC Have Issued a Census Action Alert
The PAA and APC have issued a Census Action Alert on two
issues, calling for interested parties to contact Congress. The text of this alert is as follows:
1) Nomination of Dr. Robert Groves
to be the next Director of the Census Bureau.
2) Funding for the Census Bureau and National Science Foundation.
For Dr. Groves, PAA and APC have announced the following recommendation:
Despite being approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Committee at the end of May, the full U.S. Senate has not scheduled a vote on
the nomination of Dr. Robert Groves to be the next Director of the Census
Bureau.
*ACTION: Contact your home state
Senators to urge expeditious consideration of Dr. Groves' nomination. *
Remind all senators that federal dollars flowing to their states, as well as
the size of their state's congressional delegation, depends on an accurate
census.
Census 2010 is less than one year away.
The Census Bureau needs strong leadership in the coming months to ensure
Census 2010 is successfully conducted.
Dr. Groves has the scientific expertise and appropriate professional experience
to be the next Director of the U.S. Census Bureau.
*Urge your senators to express their support for a vote on the Groves nomination to Senate Majority Leader
Reid and Senate Minority Leader McConnell. *
Find contact information for your U.S. Senators here.
For Census Bureau and National Science Foundation Funding, the PAA and APC have
issued this call:
On Tuesday, June 16, the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled tentatively
to consider the Fiscal Year 2010 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations
bill. This bill funds many federal
agencies, including the Census Bureau and National Science Foundation.
If you are concerned about ensuring both of these agencies receive adequate
funding next year, please contact your representative in the U.S. House of
Representatives *this week* to communicate the following messages:
*1) VOTE NO on amendments to cut Census Bureau funds*
Many Members believe the Census Bureau is flush with extra cash (the FY2010
appropriation is $4.2 billion above 2009). That is not the case. The Census
Bureau is devoting increased resources to outreach, promotion, and advertising,
as well as more staffing in Local Census Offices and expanded follow-up with
households that indicate someone might have been missed or counted twice. More funding is needed to support the broader
Communications Campaign in light of under-funding during the previous
Administration, a lack of state and local resources to devote to census
promotion (as was done in 2000), and unanticipated challenges such as
displacement of people and families due to the economic downturn and calls for
a census boycott among undocumented immigrants.
*ACTION*: *Contact your U.S. Representative to express support for full funding
of the Census Bureau (and especially the 2010 census, which includes the
American Community Survey) and urge Members to oppose amendments that would
strip funds from the bureau.
2) Support funding for National Science Foundation
The current version of the Fiscal Year 2010 Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations
bill includes $6.9 billion for the National Science Foundation (NSF). While this amount is $446 million over the
Fiscal Year 2009 funding level, it is $108 million less than the level
requested by the President.
*ACTION: Contact your U.S. Representative to urge support for the National
Science Foundation in the FY 2010 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations
bill. At a minimum, the full House of
Representatives should approve the proposed NSF funding in the current version
of the bill.
Please add why NSF funding is important to you and your research.
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