We look forward to welcoming Angela Garcia from the University of Chicago on Friday, May 15th from 12:30 – 1:30 PM, in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom (Register Here). This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative and the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance. Follow this link to sign up for a 1:1 meeting with Dr. Garcia during their visit on May 15th.

How does the state govern immigrant lives not only through law, but through time? This book talk centers “illegality” as a temporal mechanism of U.S. migration governance: by withholding broad pathways to legal status, the state sustains prolonged legal uncertainty, blocked mobility, and restricted cross-border movement that structure the life course. Drawing on three waves of longitudinal interviews with long-settled undocumented Mexican immigrants in Chicago, the talk traces how those who migrated as young adults enter middle life in a condition of legal and temporal suspension that coincides with peak responsibility for others—raising children in the United States while supporting aging parents from afar. Examining the undocumented “sandwich generation,” the talk shows how family caregiving is reorganized through prolonged legal uncertainty: strain concentrates when children are young, responsibilities shift onto adolescents as they age, and care for parents abroad becomes coordinated long-distance support marked by the emotional costs of absence, even as immigrants’ own later-life security remains uncertain. By centering time as a tool of migration governance, the talk offers a structural account of how immigration policy produces inequality that outlasts any single reform or administration, embedding waiting, deferral, and constrained mobility across the arc of adulthood.

CSDE’s training staff hosted virtual data visualization consultations in April to help students and affiliates strengthen the way they communicate quantitative research. Effective data visualization is essential for making research clear, accessible, and compelling, yet many researchers receive limited formal training in how to present tables and figures in slides, and posters for broader audiences.

CSDE Training Core PI Audrey Dorélien (Sociology), CSDE Affiliate Min Cha (Sociology), and CSDE  Training Director Jessica Godwin provided nine consultations for students and affiliates preparing presentations for the Population Association of America 2026 conference, as well as one student preparing a poster for another upcoming conference. During the sessions, participants received targeted feedback on slides and posters, including how to ensure that figures conveyed the main message clearly, that tables were easy to interpret, and that their color choices supported accessibility and readability.

Please reach out and let us know if you would be interested in these services on a more regular basis or before certain key conferences.

CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers (APC).  Each year the APC publishes a resource guide about all member centers.  You might check it out and see what is happening elsewhere!

The CSDE Development Core is once again hosting its annual Grant Writing Summer Program (GWSP) to assist scholars (UW postdocs, researchers, and professors affiliated or planning to affiliate with CSDE, as well as other researchers in the Seattle area) in preparing applications to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Applications are now open and due May 15! More info here, and application page here.  Note that the program is in person and meets once every two weeks, late June – mid Sep, on the UW Seattle campus. Final schedule is set based on the schedules of the selected participants.

Make sure to read all the FAQ's. Past participants report great success, and lots of support and even fun along the way. Additional questions?  Contact goodreau@uw.edu.

Join CACHE on May 12 at 11 AM PT for a online seminar on, “Tracking the Mortality Burden Associated with Extreme Weather Events in the United States: Implications for Older Adult Health,” featuring Dr. Kai Chen of Yale School of Public Health. Extreme climate-related hazards, such as wildfire smoke, extreme temperatures (both heat and cold), floods, and drought, are increasingly recognized as major threats to human health and well-being in the United States. These events contribute to substantial premature mortality, which in turn imposes significant economic losses on society. However, the public often lacks clear, science-based information that captures the scale of these damages and makes them accessible across different regions. To address this gap, the Climate, Health, and Environment Nexus (CHEN) Lab at the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health recently developed a dashboard that attributes premature mortality in the contiguous United States to these extreme climate events: XToll: eXtreme-weather Toll Tracker. Register here. 

CSDE is thrilled to announce the Charles and Josephine Hirschman Award for student research. CSDE students may apply for up to $2,000 in funds to directly support a research project. Funds may support activities such as the cost of conducting fieldwork, data purchases, the hiring of a translator or transcriber, or participant rewards in surveys. Be creative! All funds must be spent during the 2026-27 academic year and may not be used to pay tuition or your own salary.

CSDE collaborates with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in a doctoral training program called the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS). This program is based in Rostock, Germany, but includes 12 doctoral programs in the U.S. and Europe. CSDE has one IMPRS-PHDS fellowship application slot available to current CSDE Trainees. The fellowship funding will support a one quarter research stay at the MPIDR any time between July 1, 2026 and June 30, 2027.  Information about the program, the faculty, and partner institutions can be found here. Applications are due to CSDE by Tuesday, May 26. Apply here.

NIH is pleased to announce a Highlighted Topic on Health and Extreme Weather (HEW) effective this month. As you may know, the Highlighted Topics generally do not carry any set aside funding or special considerations for review, but they do express NIH’s interest in a particular scientific field. This Highlighted Topic, while not explicitly carrying funding, is tied to the Health and Extreme Weather initiative funded out of NIEHS. TThe work of demographers and population health scientists often fits within the scope of this Topic. Read about the Topic and exploring the initiative’s website to learn more. NICHD has not yet signed onto this Topic, but can fund HEW research that is within the scope of the Institute’s priorities.

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As a part of its Advancing Well-Being in the Arts Initiative’s Field Studies program, Wallace is interested in funding a small set of research studies that investigate aspects of how community-based arts organizations contribute to the economic mobility of their communities. “Communities” may include organizational staff, artists, audiences, program participants, local constituents served, and/or others as defined in proposals. For this RFP, the Wallace Foundation broadly defines and understands economic mobility, and pathways to economic mobility, and pathways to economic mobility, as emerging through access to training and preparation, expanded social and professional networks, high quality jobs, as well as to basic needs such as safe neighborhoods, housing, health care, and food. However, we are eager to learn, through the studies to be funded, how arts organizations themselves conceptualize, define, and support economic mobility in their communities. To be invited to submit a full proposal, you must submit a 3-4 page letter of interest by May 12. Learn more here.

Studies in Family Planning is calling for abstract submissions for a special issue on “Rethinking Contraceptive Futures,” by June 30, 2026. This call for abstracts invites contributions that broaden and challenge traditional understandings of contraceptive use, access, and meaning. Contributions may engage explicitly with family planning debates but should foreground contraceptive practices and their evolving meanings within broader social and demographic paradigms. 

The Northwestern Main and Advanced Causal Inference Workshop will hold its 15th annual meeting on Research Design for Causal Inference at Northwestern Law School in Chicago, IL. The  main workshop takes place Monday – Friday, August 3-7,  and the advanced workshop follows, Monday – Wednesday, August 10-12, with an optional machine learning primer on Sunday afternoon, August 9.

In person-registration is limited to 125 participants for each workshop, so hurry up and register for in person attendance!  There will also be a Zoom option, but attending in person is encouraged. Get more information and register now. 

IUSSP and its co-organizes invite papers for a workshop focused on “Aftermath of a Pandemic: Changes in Mortality and Health.” Post-pandemic periods can reveal or amplify existing health inequalities, and the effects of pandemics often extend beyond the acute phase of infection, influencing long-term patterns of mortality and overall population health. This workshop will focus on these poorly understood effects.

The workshop will be hosted by the Oslo Metropolitan University on January 28-29, 2027. Submit a 300-word abstract and include a title, author(s), affiliation(s) via this form by September 11, 2026. Abstracts should be written in English. Attendance to the workshop is limited to 25 participants. Following the workshop, the organizers plan to pursue a special issue of a scientific journal.

Studies in Family Planning is calling for submission for a special issue on “Pandemic and Epidemic Impacts on Reproduction, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Family Dynamics: Longer-Term Consequences and Cross-Crisis Perspectives,” due September 15, 2026. The special issue aims to broaden the field by situating COVID-19 within a broader landscape of pandemics and epidemics with demonstrable implications for reproduction, family life, and SRHR. 

The IUSSP Early Career Awards aim to honour outstanding contributions to the broad field of population studies by early career scholars in different world regions and boost the global visibility of their achievements. Nominate colleagues by November 1, 2026. Nominees must have received their PhD within the last seven years and be IUSSP members. For more information about the Award and the nomination procedure and to fill out the application form, please go to IUSSP Early Career Awards.

MDPI launched a new journal Populations roughly one year ago and invite submissions from CSDE Affiliates and Trainees.  Here is some information about publishing with them. Some recently published articles include:

• Nonunion and Cohabiting First Births in the U.S.: Racial and Socioeconomic Disadvantage Predict Nonunion Births for Men as Well as Women
• A Cross-Sectional Study of Obstetric Violence Against Indigenous Women in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Decolonial Demographic Approach
• Population-Level Shifts in Caribbean Family Resilience Across the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Becoming a Net Receiver of International Migrants: An Age-Structural Model of the Shift to Persistently Positive Net Migration Rates

IPUMS released multiple data updates, including DHS data, IHGIS data, and CPS data.

IPUMS DHS has released standard variables from 112 new samples, including 34 new countries. The release includes data from the women, household members, births, and children units of analysis. Users can also now request IPUMS DHS data extracts programmatically using the IPUMS API and through our client libraries for R (ipumsr) and Python (ipumspy).

IHGIS has released tables and boundary files for population and housing censuses from Benin 2013, Niger 2012, and Sierra Leone 2015. We have also added a shapefile for Kenya 2019 locations (n = 3,838) to accompany previously released data. In addition, new linking variables in the IPUMS DHS release allow users to easily attach IHGIS data to DHS records.

IPUMS CPS has added the March 2026 monthly data. We have also updated the January 2026 monthly data to reflect a revised version of the file released by the Census Bureau that incorporates the 2026 population estimates. See the IPUMS CPS revision history for details.