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October 9, 2007

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CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR: Assessing Uncertainty in Fertility Estimates and Projections -- Leontine Alkema
CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS: Statistics Core Brown Bag -- Minimizing the pain of getting human subjects approval; Anita Rocha is an ex officio member of the Faculty Council on Academic Standards
CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS: Send Us Your News
CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST: West Coast Povery Center Seminar -- Special session for enrolled graduate students; Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar -- M.J. (Susie) Bayarri; Environmental Anthropology Forum -- Kemolongzin and James Taylor; IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling (IPEM) -- Jessica Flack; TODAY: The Discovery and Government of Hunger: The social and its states of welfare in modern imperial Britain; Climate Change Information Fair -- Invitation to participate (Oct 17); Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) and UW School of Social Work Partnership 2007 Open House
CALLS FOR PAPERS: Urban Planet: Collective Identities, Governance and Empowerment in Megacities; Call for proposals: 2008 Exploration Seminars
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES: GHRC jobs listserv; Application Available for 2008 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program; Technical Director for Population, Health, and the Environment (PHE)
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST: NSF Important Notice 130; World Bank Publications Announcement

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CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR

Leontine Alkema, UW Statistics (CSDE Fellow)
Assessing Uncertainty in Fertility Estimates and Projections

Friday, October 12
12:30 - 2:00pm
Parrington Hall Commons

CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS

Statistics Core Brown Bag -- Minimizing the pain of getting human subjects approval

Thursday, October 11
11:30 AM - 1PM
Raitt Hall 221

Anita Rocha is an ex officio member of the Faculty Council on Academic Standards

Anita Rocha, Statistical Programmer and Data Manager in the CSDE Statistics Core, is an ex officio member of the Faculty Council on Academic Standards (FCAS). She is a voting member and began her two-year term in fall 2007. FCAS is responsible for matters of university policy relating to the academic affairs of the university, such as admissions policy, scholastic standards, university graduation requirements, and inter-institutional academic standards. Should you or someone you know like to know more about FCAS or have input, Anita invites you to contact her at alrocha@u.washington.edu.

CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS

Send Us Your News

What's happening? Please tell us about your recent accomplishments and we'll get the word out. The CSDE Affiliate and Fellow News and website Spotlights are venues to inform each other and the broader academic community about affiliates' and fellows' research and related activities.

In addition to announcing exciting research discoveries, new grants and professional advancements, we would like to publicize your involvement with policy makers and other regional or national organizations. We would also like to know when you've been called upon by local and national media to introduce your research to the general public and as experts commenting on different issues.

Please send email to csde@u.washington.edu or contact David Hyllegard, Information Core Director, at 206-543-9525. Thanks!

CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST

West Coast Povery Center Seminar -- Special session for enrolled graduate students

Introduce students and West Coast Poverty Center faculty affiliates working on issues relating to poverty and inequality

Monday, October 15
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Parrington Hall Commons

Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar -- M.J. (Susie) Bayarri

M.J. (Susie) Bayarri, Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Valencia
"A New, Improved BIC"

Wednesday, October 10
12:30 - 1:20 PM
Denny 401

Environmental Anthropology Forum -- Kemolongzin and James Taylor

Anthropogenic landscape changes in Jiuzhaigou National Nature Reserve

Wednesday, October 10
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Denny Hall, 401

More information on the Forum is at http://depts.washington.edu/anthweb/news_events/EAForum.php

IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling (IPEM)

Jessica Flack (Santa Fe Institute)
Building social organizations through niche construction: The role of robustness mechanisms

Thursday October 11
3:30 – 5:00 PM
Live videoconference participation at UW in Kane 019

Fall seminars originate from WSU-Pullman

The Discovery and Government of Hunger: The social and its states of welfare in modern imperial Britain

A lecture by Prof. James Vernon, U of California Berkeley

Tuesday, October 9
3:30 PM
Communications 202

This talk will draw upon Prof. Vernon's exciting new book, "Hunger: A Modern History" (Harvard UP, 2007). Vernon is Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, and Director of its Center for British Studies. He is the author of "Politics and the People" (1993) and editor of "Rereading the Constitution" (1996). He also serves on the editorial boards of Social History and Representations. His work is concerned with pushing forward the agendas of social and cultural history, and applying them to the peculiarities of British modernity.

The talk is generously sponsored by the Department of History, the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Center for West European Studies, African Studies, South Asian Studies, and the Institute for Transnational Studies.

Please contact Jordanna Bailkin (bailkin@u.washington.edu) with any questions about this event.

Climate Change Information Fair: Invitation to participate (Oct 17)

Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Ed Taylor, would like to invite your organization to participate in the Climate Change Information & Resource fair that is being held in conjunction with Elizabeth Kolbert’s talk on climate change at the Bank of America Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion on the evening of October 17th, 2007.

Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of this year’s UW Common Book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. Ms. Kolbert will be visiting the UW on October 17th and giving a talk followed by a question and answer session.

The Climate Change Information and Resource fair will precede Ms. Kolbert’s talk and then resume as people exit the event. Participating organizations will host tables in the concourse of Hec Ed Pavilion. The fair and talk will be open to the public; the primary audience will be 2000-3000 entering UW students.

Our intention is that the fair will connect these students with opportunities for involvement with campus, student and community organizations working on climate change issues, as well as learning and research experiences on the subject of climate change.

If your organization would like to participate, please contact Kathryn Farmer (kjfarmer@u.washington.edu or 206-543-3172).

Deadline to register to host a table is: October 10th, 2007. We look foward to hearing from you!

Details

Wednesday Oct 17
Hec Edmundson Pavilion, Campus Map
Fair hours: 6-7pm and 8:15-9pm
Elizabeth Kolbert speaks/Q and A: 7-8:15pm (fair participants are invited to attend Ms. Kolbert’s talk)

Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) and UW School of Social Work Partnership 2007 Open House

Wednesday October 10
5:30-7:00 pm
UW School of Social Work 4101 15th Avenue NE, Room 306 (the Commons)

Our 2nd cohort of Cambodian students just arrived to begin the Master’s of Social Work program and will share an informational display about their fields of interest including trafficking in Cambodia, HIV prevention, trauma, child welfare, and disabilities.

Please join us in welcoming the RUPP faculty candidates to our University & Seattle.

For more information please contact Tracy Harachi at (206) 409-2707 or tharachi@u.washington.edu. For additional information about the Partnership please see http://depts.washington.edu/sswweb/rupp/

CALLS FOR PAPERS

Urban Planet: Collective Identities, Governance and Empowerment in Megacities

Essay Competition

Irmgard Coninx Research Grant 2008
Workshop and Conference in Berlin, 11-16 June 2008

International Essay Competition and Workshop organized by the Irmgard Coninx Foundation, the Social Science Research Center Berlin and the Humboldt-University Berlin.

Deadline for essay submission: 15 December 2007

Workshop participation in Berlin

50 successful applicants to the essay competition will be invited to discuss their research with prominent scholars at some of Europe's leading research institutions. The workshop will take place at the Social Science Research Center Berlin on 11 - 16 June 2008.

Irmgard Coninx Research Grant

An international jury will award a three-months fellowship to three participants to be used for research at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, the Humboldt-University Berlin and the State library Berlin. The Grant includes a monthly stipend of EUR 1,000 plus accommodation and its winners will be invited to join a follow-up workshop in Berlin in 2008/2009.

Program details

In continuation of previous Roundtables on population politics and on migration into cities, the Eight Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality will focus on "Collective Identities, Governance and Empowerment in Megacities."

These issues will be discussed in three workshops chaired. They will be accompanied by evening lectures of prominent scholars and politicians such as Mike Davis (author of "Planet of Slums") and Klaus Töpfer (former Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme).

The Irmgard Coninx Foundation will cover travel and accommodation costs.

For details please visit our website: www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de

Details for the essay competition:
http://www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de/index.php?id=117

For inquiries please contact us: info@irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de

Call for proposals: 2008 Exploration Seminars

Exploration Seminars are month-long, global study experiences that take place during Early Fall Start – late August to late September. These intensive learning opportunities are jointly sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences, the Office of International Programs and Exchanges, and the Comparative History of Ideas Program.

Exploration Seminars offer in-depth treatments of particular themes or lines of inquiry, generally at the 300- to 400-level that place learning in a global context. They offer you and your students the chance to study a topic intensively within a learning community.

In 2008, we plan to offer as many as 40 Exploration Seminars, funded on a self-sustaining basis, each with 15-20 students. Exploration Seminars are 5-credit courses open to all continuing students. Faculty from all UW disciplines and from all three campuses is encouraged to apply.

If you lead a seminar, you will receive compensation of $7500 plus benefits. In addition, you will be provided with airfare, housing, and a modest daily stipend. Funds for instructional activities, guest lecturers, classroom rentals, field trips, local travel, and other needs are included as part of each program's budget. You will be the primary recruiter for your course. The most successful seminars have been led by faculty who have taught or who have access to a sizeable pool of students from which to draw participants.

Two information sessions will be offered for those considering submitting proposals. These sessions will be on October 11th and 12th at 3:00 pm in Communications Building 065. For more information, please contact Max Savishinsky at
explore @u.washington.edu.

Proposals to run seminars are due on Monday, October 22nd, 2007. Although Exploration Seminars have traditionally been developed as international study abroad programs, travel experiences within the United States will also be considered and are encouraged. If you choose to apply, please send your proposal to explore@u.washington.edu. Your proposal should include:

a 1-2 page description of your class, detailing how you will make use of the site’s resources or community;

A brief summary of your experience with the site, including language competency, as appropriate;

A description of the target audience for your seminar; and

A letter of endorsement from your chair in support of your course.

If possible, your proposed seminar should be integrated into the undergraduate program offered by your department and count towards fulfilling degree requirements for your students. We will determine the 2008 seminars by mid-November.

For descriptions of programs offered in previous years, additional proposal writing suggestions, and further information about the Exploration Seminar program, please visit http://depts.washington.edu/explore.

TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

GHRC jobs listserv

To keep up with the information we receive here at the UW GHRC related to global health-related employment in local and global organizations and universities, we have created a new listserv/mailman list dedicated to posting new jobs, fellowships or interesting internships announcements: GHRC_jobs. Please send text descriptions and refrain from sending attachments. Members can choose to receive those announcements individually or in a daily digest. The list will be monitored by the GHRC to avoid multiple postings of the same announcement, where possible.

To subscribe: http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/ghrc_jobs

Application Available for 2008 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program

Application Available for 2008 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program

CONTACT
Cara James
(202) 347-5270
cjames@kff.org

Jomo Kassaye
(202) 238-2385
jzkassaye@howard.edu

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is accepting applications for the 2008 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/bjscholars/bjsapplication.cfm. This opportunity is for college seniors and recent college graduates who have a strong interest in addressing racial and ethnic health disparities, or who are themselves a member of a population that is adversely affected by racial and ethnic health disparities.

The application deadline is 5:00pm ET on December 14, 2007.

During their nine-week experience, the Scholars work in congressional offices in Washington, D.C., obtaining first-hand experience in the policy-making process. They participate in seminars and site visits to enhance their practical knowledge of health care issues and gain first-hand knowledge of the federal legislative process. Each Scholar also writes and presents a health policy research paper in one of the following areas: Medicaid and the uninsured, Medicare, or HIV/AIDS.

"The Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program is a chance for motivated students to learn about the policy-making process on Capitol Hill and immerse themselves in the substance of a health policy issue. Barbara Jordan would be proud to see these students grapple with difficult health policy issues and work to address disparities," Foundation President and CEO Drew E. Altman said. Eligible candidates must be U.S. citizens who will be seniors or recent graduates of an accredited U.S. college or university in the fall of 2008. Individuals with an advanced degree, and those individuals currently enrolled in an advanced degree program are not eligible to participate.

Candidates are selected based on academic performance, demonstrated leadership potential, and interest in health issues that disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minorities or underserved communities. Scholars receive roundtrip transportation to Washington, a stipend, and housing at Howard University for the duration of the program. The Kaiser Family Foundation established the Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program to honor the legacy of former U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan -- the first African American elected to Congress from Texas and a much-admired member of the Foundation’s board of trustees. Barbara Jordan had a distinguished career exemplified by her tireless advocacy on behalf of vulnerable populations. She brought this passion to her work, inspiring others to become involved in addressing challenging health policy issues.

The Kaiser Family Foundation operates the program in partnership with Howard University.

Application materials and more information are available online at http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/bjscholars/index.cfm.

For questions, please contact program director Cara James, Ph.D, (202) 347-5270 or program manager Jomo Kassaye at (202) 238-2385.

Technical Director for Population, Health, and the Environment (PHE)

PRB is recruiting a Technical Director for its program in Population, Health, and the Environment (PHE). The selected candidate will manage the existing PHE program and be responsible for developing a sustainable program of PHE activities for the future.

The selected candidate will report to the Director of International Programs and will work closely with the Director of the USAID-supported BRIDGE project. It is expected that the Technical Director will spend about 15 percent of his/her time on program development, 10 percent on program management, and 75 percent on program implementation.

The position will be based in Washington, D.C., but will include travel to low- and middle-income countries, possibly about 25 percent of the time. For full details on this position, please visit the PRB Job Opportunities website.

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST

NSF Important Notice 130

Dr. Arden Bement has signed Important Notice No. 130, Subject: Transformative Research. The document may be accessed electronically at: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=in130

The Important Notice details NSF's implementation of the National Science Board's motion to enhance support of transformative research at the Foundation. In addition, the notice highlights the change to the Intellectual Merit Review Criterion to specifically include review of the extent to which a proposal also suggests and explores potentially transformative concepts.

Effective October 1, 2007, the Grant Proposal Guide and new funding opportunities issued after this date will incorporate the change to the Intellectual Merit Criterion. Proposals received after January 5th, 2008, will be subject to the revised merit review criterion.

Stay tuned for additional information on the Foundation's efforts in this area in the weeks and months to come.

World Bank Publications Announcement

Unleashing India's Innovation: Toward Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
Edited by Mark Dutz

China's Information Revolution: Managing the Economic and Social Transformation
By Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang

The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2007
By World Bank

Information and Communications for Development 2006: Global Trends and Policies
By World Bank

E-Development: From Excitement to Effectiveness
By Thomas O'Brien

To Order:

Online: www.worldbank.org/publications
e-mail: books@worldbank.org
Phone: 703-661-1580 or 1-800-645-7247
Fax: 703-661-1501
Mail: World Bank Publications, P.O. Box 960, Herndon, VA 20172-0960, U.S.A.