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- CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTLIGHTS
- CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
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- CALLS FOR PAPERS
- EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
- OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR
Aditya Khanna, Katrina Leupp and Amy Spring – 2012 PAA Papers
Aditya Khanna, Katrina Leupp, and Amy Spring will present their PAA papers.
April
20, 2012
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Raitt 121
CSDE Seminar Schedule
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CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTLIGHTS
Please plan to join us at the CSDE Reception at PAA!
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Parc 55 Hotel
More information and the RSVP can be found here.
Sara Curran, host
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CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
Macartan Humphreys - Nature's False Confessions: A Proposal for Comprehensive Registration
CSSS Seminar
Macartan Humphreys, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science,
Columbia
"Nature's False Confessions: A Proposal for Comprehensive Registration to
Discourage Data Fishing in Political Science"
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Savery 409
For the abstract, please go here.
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Seth Wayne - Strategies for Rural Clinics
IMHE Seminar
Seth Wayne, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Friends Eye Centre, Ghana
“Strategies for Rural Clinics: How to Reach More than 65,000 Rural Patients per
Year”
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
4:00 pm
IMHE office in Belltown
2301 Fifth Ave., Suite 600
For the abstract, please go here.
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Jamie Bechtel - Links between Natural Resource Use and Health
UW Department of Global Health and UW South Asia Center present
Jamie Bechtel, UW Law School
“Links between Natural Resource Use, Natural Resource Management and Health in
South Asia and the Broader Developing World”
Thursday, April 19, 2012
12:00 - 1:20 pm
UW Health Sciences Building, RR 134
This lecture is part of the “Maternal, Child, and Reproductive Health: Focus on
South Asia” series.
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Peter J. Diggle – Model-Based Geostatistics for Tropical Disease Epidemiology
UW Dept. of Biostatistics Seminar
Peter J. Diggle, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor, CHICAS Group
Leader, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, UK
“Model-Based Geostatistics for Tropical Disease Epidemiology”
Thursday, April 19, 2012
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Health Sciences, Room T-639
For the abstract, please go here.
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Alexes Harris - The U.S. Criminal Justice System: Race, Poverty, and Permanent Punishments
Samuel E. Kelly Lecture
Alexes Harris, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology, UW
“The U.S. Criminal Justice System: Race, Poverty, and Permanent Punishments”
Thursday, April 19, 2012
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Kane Hall, Room 110
Advance registration is required for this event. Please find more information here.
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Rebecca Aanerud - Grant Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences
UW Libraries Workshop
Rebecca Aanerud, Senior Lecturer
“Grant Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences”
Friday, April 20th, 2012
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Research Commons, Green A
Abstract:
Learning how to write a strong grant is a skill and an art. This session will
focus on grant writing in the humanities and social sciences. If you have
current grants you are working on or considering, bring them to the session or
email them in advance to Rebecca Aanerud (raan@u.washington.edu). Please
indicate “grant writing session” in the subject line.
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Marla McDaniel - Providing Medicaid Coverage for Former Foster Youth
WCPC Seminar
Marla McDaniel, Senior Research Associate, The Urban Institute Center on Labor,
Human Services, & Population
"Providing Medicaid Coverage for Former Foster Youth: Issues in
Implementing the Affordable Care Act"
Monday, April 23, 2012
12:30 pm
U.W. Parrington Hall Commons, Room 308
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Stas Minsker - Plug-in Approach to Active Learning
UW Dept. of Biostatistics Seminar
Stas Minsker, Georgia Tech
“Plug-in Approach to Active Learning”
Monday, April 23, 2012
3:30 pm
Thomson 105
For the abstract, please go here.
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RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
Raine Dozier Article Appears in Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Raine Dozier’s article, “Young, Jobless, and Black: Young Black Women and Economic
Downturns,” was published in the March 2012 issue of Sociology & Social Welfare.
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Two Funding Opportunities
Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and
unconventional global health and development solutions, is now accepting grant
proposals for its latest application round. Applicants can be at any experience
level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and
universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit
organizations and for profit companies.
Proposals are being accepted online until May 15, 2012 on the following topics:
-New Approaches for the Interrogation of Anti-malarial Compounds
-Aid is Working. Tell the World
-Design New Approaches to Optimize Immunization Systems
-Explore New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas
-Protect Crop Plants from Biotic Stresses From Field to Market
Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have
the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million. Full
descriptions of the new topics and application instructions are available here.
The HIV Diagnostics team is now accepting Letters of Inquiry for the
identification of novel biomarkers that can be used effectively to measure HIV
incidence at the population level. We are looking for biomarkers that could be
used alone or in combination, and that are at the initial development stage.
Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any
organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories,
research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit companies.
Proposals are being accepted online until Friday, May 18, 2012 10:00 AM Pacific
Standard Time. Individual grants will not exceed US $1 million. A full
description of the new topic and application instructions are available here.
If you have questions regarding these grant opportunities please email us at
HIVDiagnostics@gatesfoundation.org.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Healthy Eating Research
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity 2012
Call for Proposals-Round 7 and RWJF New Connections
Submission deadline: May 22, 2012
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a
national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The program
supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential
to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity,
especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk
for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the
childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
This call for proposals is for two types of awards aimed at providing key
decision- and policy-makers with evidence to reverse the childhood obesity
epidemic by 2015. The award types are: Round 7 grants and RWJF New Connections
grants awarded through the Healthy Eating Research program. There are various deadlines,
please see the Call for Proposals.
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CALLS FOR PAPERS
Research Data Center Annual Research Conference - Call for Papers
The Chicago Census Research Data Center welcomes proposals to present papers
based on current or recent RDC research. The conference will be held on September
20, 2012 at the Chicago Census Research Data Center at the Federal Reserve Bank
of Chicago, and will showcase research from the nationwide network of RDCs –
including research using demographic, business, and linked employee-employer
data from the U.S. Census Bureau, as well as health data from the National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ).
More information and submission details can be found here.
The submission deadline is July 2, 2012.
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs – Princeton, NJ
Princeton University seeks a new Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public
and International Affairs, a full-time appointment. The School has more than 90
full-time faculty members, most of whom hold joint appointments in academic
departments and programs such as Economics, Politics, Sociology, Psychology,
Geosciences, Human Values, Demography, Molecular Biology, and Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology.
For the full announcement, please go here.
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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Council on Library and Information Resources - Data Curation Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), in conjunction with
its Digital Library Federation (DLF) program is currently accepting
applications for a new data curation fellowship program for recent Ph.Ds in the
natural and social sciences. The purpose
of these six fellowships to be awarded this year is “to raise awareness and
build capacity for sound data management practice throughout the academy.” Applications are being accepted on a rolling
basis until all positions are filled but no later than June 30, 2012. Applicants must have received a Ph.D in a
discipline no more than five years before applying.
Those accepted as fellows will receive
two years of training and professional development at one of six participating
institutions; Indiana University, Lehigh University, McMaster University,
Purdue University, The University of California Los Angeles, and The University
of Michigan.
Additional information about this program is available here.
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OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
Institutional Review Board Publishes Latest Issue of IRB Review
The newest issue of IRB Review
features an article on HSD Compliance Updates. Find the full content here.
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US
Census Bureau Releases “Migration of the Young, Single, and Educated: 1965 to
2000”
This report analyzes the growth of this group and compares their migration
destinations with those of other segments of this age group and with the
general population. Specifically examines decennial census results from 1970 to
2000 to determine how likely this group was to have changed residences in the
five years preceding each census.
A link to the full content can be found here.
Additional migration data reports and tables can be found here.
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