This week we're excited to host Assistant Professor at Arizona State University's School of Geographical Sciences and Urban, Dylan Connor. Dr. Connor will be presenting his research on intergenerational mobility for children in rural areas. This research documents the effects of chronic or worsening community poverty on the life chances of children growing up in low-income rural households.

You can register for the seminar HERE, and check out all the upcoming topics and register for future seminars on our website.

After the seminar, CSDE Trainee David Coomes will facilitate a graduate student discussion with Dr. Connor. Students will have the opportunity to discuss research collaborations, professional development, academic publishing, and interdisciplinary research, among other topics. To RSVP, please send an email to David (dcoomes@uw.edu).

This seminar is co-sponsored with the Population Health Initiative.

During the 2022 PAA, CSDE Affiliate Adrian Raftery was recognized with the Mindel C. Sheps Award for his outstanding contributions to mathematical demography and demographic methodology.  The award is co-sponsored by the PAA and UNC’s School of Public Health and is awarded every two years. Kindly, Raftery warmly acknowledged the UW and his many colleagues there and around the world.  You can view the giving of the award and his acknowledgements through this YouTube link. Congratulations, Adrian!!!

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The American Association of Public Opinion Research awards the Inclusive Voices Award annually to recognize the important data sets, research, and survey methods that have improved the ability to study complex social phenomena related to understudied populations. While the NLAAS stopped data collection in 2004, the resulting data are still being used today. Margarita Alegria and CSDE Affiliate David Takeuchi were the PIs of the NLAAS project. NLAAS resulted in over 150 publications focusing on Latinos, AA, or both and has helped build the publication records of many emerging researchers.

CSDE Trainee Delaney Glass presented research co-authored with Yvette Young, Tran Khanh Toan, Patrick Clarkin, and CSDE External Affiliate Kim Korinek at the PAA Annual Meeting last week. The project, available in full HERE, explores the long-term health effects of exposure to war and bombing in Vietnam. This presentation earned a poster award in the Friday poster session. You can view the poster here. Congratulations, Delaney & team!

CSDE Affiliate and Executive Committee Member Mark Ellis, with Dartmouth co-authors Richard Wright and Nicole Tiao, recently published an article in The Professional Geographer that analyzes the impact of redefining metropolitan geographic areas over time on their estimated racial composition. Using census data from 1990, 2000, and 2010, the authors demonstrate that the 2010 reclassification produces metropolitan areas that are relatively more White and relatively less diverse than those based on the 1990 definitions.

In a new article in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, CSDE Affiliate Jennifer Otten and co-authors tap into the effects of policy changes in the Washington State Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children ( WA WIC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. In December 2020, WA WIC adopted federal waivers to transition to remote service delivery for certification and education appointments and also expanded the approved food list without utilizing federal waivers. The authors find that these changes expanded access to services and were positively viewed by WA WIC employees.

CSDE External Affiliate Luke Bergmann and a number of colleagues recently published new research that characterizes agricultural lands in the U.S. midwest as conventional, regenerative, or both. In an era in which conventional agriculture has come under question for its environmental and social costs, regenerative agriculture suggests that land management practices can be organized around farming and grazing practices that regenerate interdependent ecological and community processes for generations to come. The authors present a multifaceted depiction of the geography of these land types.

CSDE Affiliate Karin Frey and a number of colleagues have a new article published in the Journal of Child and Family Studies. Adolescents targeted for peer aggression are at risk of emotion dysregulation and social withdrawal—responses that predict increased victimization and impede the protective factors of peer support. The authors explore the effects of four types of peer actions on the victimized students' emotional wellbeing and social appraisals.

The NIH has just launched a new website on Scientific Data Sharing. Whether you are involved in an NIH-funded project and want to understand which sharing policies apply to your research and how to comply, or you are a researcher looking to access scientific data from NIH-affiliated repositories, this site is for you.

Over the next few months, in preparation for the new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy that goes into effect for applications due on or after January 25, 2023, the NIH will be adding a number of resources to the site including: sample sharing plans, tips for taking data sharing into consideration when developing your budget, additional FAQs, and more.

There are upcoming webinars to explain the new policy, and a lot of information to explore on the new website, including the Final NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing, information on Repositories for Sharing Scientific Data, and allowable costs for Budgeting for Data Management & Sharing, etc.

Join us this Tuesday, April 12, and every other Tuesday for the rest of the quarter for coffee and conversation. We’ll meet between Raitt and Savery Halls from 8:30am-9:30am. CSDE will provide the coffee and something to go with it, and we hope you provide the company! We will have some disposable cups, but bringing your own mug is encouraged. Download the flyer here.

Apply to compete in the 2022 UW Virtual Three Minute Thesis (UW 3MT®), where you’ll have the opportunity to present your project in just three minutes for cash prizes totaling $5,000. The competition is open to all eligible graduate students from Bothell, Tacoma, and Seattle campuses. This event is a partnership between Core Programs—Office of Graduate Student Affairs in The Graduate School and the UW Libraries Research Commons. Proposals are due April 14, 2022.

The 3rd biennial symposium entitled "Race, Health and Justice" is scheduled for Friday April 15th from 9 AM - 5 PM at the Intellectual House. The symposium will feature keynote speaker George Yancy and presentations from several of UW's finest scholars (including Oliver Rollins,Temi Odumoso, Amanda Swarr, Michelle Johnson-Jennings, Mienah Sharif and Wendy Barrington). The Symposium is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Program on Ethics, the School of Public Health, and the Benjamin Rabinowitz Endowment in Medical Ethics at UW. Click here to download the event flyer.

CSDE’s Data Science and Demography T32 Fellowship program is now accepting applications for a 12-month fellowship for AY 2022-23. This training program is ideal for pre-doctoral candidates who have strong interests in gaining methodological training in data analytics and with research interests in the social determinants or social structural factors linked to population well-being, population health, or demography.  The program provides mentoring and support for trainees pursuing scientific careers in relevant academia, government, or private sector organizations.  

Join the UW Center for Health Innovation & Policy Science and CSDE for the third seminar in our ongoing series on homelessness. On April 20th Graham Pruss will present a talk titled “Vehicle Residency and the Nomadic Turn: How a UW Undergrad Project Drove National Research to Inform Public Policy, Social Services, and Legal Advocacy.”

Network Modeling for Epidemics (NME) is a 5-day short course at the University of Washington that provides training in stochastic network models for infectious disease transmission dynamics.

This is a ''hands-on'' course, using the EpiModel software package in R (www.epimodel.org). EpiModel provides a unified framework for statistically based modeling of dynamic networks from empirical data, and simulation of epidemic dynamics on these networks. This course will touch on the deterministic and individual-based models, but its primary focus is on the theory, methods and application of network models. The course uses a mix of lectures, tutorials, and labs with students working in small groups. Click here to apply!

We're excited to offer the following workshops this quarter:

• Agent Based Modeling in R
  
  • Instructor: Deven Hamilton
  • When: Thursday, May 5, 10am-12pm
  • Website: https://csde.washington.edu/workshop/r-agent-based-modeling/
• Observational Ethnographic Research: Online and Offline
  
  • Instructor: Jessica Beyer
  • When: Thursday, June 2, 12:00pm-2:00pm
  • Website: https://csde.washington.edu/workshop/observational-ethnographic-research-online-and-offline/
• Data Storage & Access with the UWDC
  • Instructor: Phil Hurvitz
  • When: TBD
  • Website: https://csde.washington.edu/workshop/data-storage-usage-with-the-uwdc/