CSDE is hosting office hours to help you prepare data visualizations for PAA! Join CSDE Training Core PI Audrey Dorélien, 2026-2027 CSDE Seminar Chair Min Cha, and CSDE Training Director Jessica Godwin to get feedback and consultation on figures for your PAA oral presentations or posters. Both faculty and students are welcome!! Please sign up for a consultation slot here on 4/29/26 between 12 and 1 PM.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Institute on the Environment (IonE) – University of Minnesota (04/29/26)
CACHE at PAA 2026 Workshop Registration: Measuring Heat for Use in Population Research (05/06/26)
Heat is one of the most frequently examined environmental influences on population health, and a wide variety of data sources exist to measure exposure. This pre-PAA workshop, sponsored by the Center on Aging, Health, and Environment (CACHE), provides an overview of heat measures and examples of two, including hands-on experience with code available via the CACHE website. Participants will generate temperature exposure measures from publicly available data, as well as wet bulb temperatures. The Universal Thermal Climate Index data will also be demonstrated and linked to population data. Learn more and register here. This workshop will take place in St. Louis, Missouri on May 6, 1-5:30 PM CT . Please note you must be registered for PAA in order to attend.
The workshop’s first exercise uses data from two different sources: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather-stations and ERA5-Land Reanalysis from the European Union’s Copernicus Project. Both are publicly available. The workshop will review information on acquiring and cleaning daily temperature data for New York City, as an example. Key is that air temperature as well as wet bulb temperature exposure variables are generated, and at varying temporal resolution. On the CACHE website, the code is embedded in an R Markdown pdf file.
The second exercise demonstrates how to construct severe heat measures using the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI, Copernicus ERA5-HEAT). It starts by showing data manipulation from raster (grid data) to a tabular dataset that obtains UTCI values for each municipality in Mexico as an example. Then, the data are mapped and analyzed as linked to population data. Finally, the number of days of severe heat (32°C UTCI and above) are generated. This code, also available on the CACHE website, is part of the demonstration CACHE project “Heat, Disability in older adults and Care” from El Colegio de Mexico.
Lead Instructors:
Dr. Frank Heiland, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research
Dr. Alex Mikulas, CACHE
Dr. Landy Sanchez, El Colegio de Mexico
Organizers:
Lori Hunter, University of Colorado Boulder, and Deborah Balk, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research
Keep an eye out for an email in the coming weeks with additional details.
*New* CACHE Seminar: Tracking the Mortality Burden Associated with Extreme Weather Events in the United States (05/15/26)
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.
Dr. Kai Chen will introduce the XToll dashboard and its underlying research on the national county-level mortality burden of heat, cold, wildfire smoke, floods, and drought. He will also highlight the health effects of non-optimal temperatures and wildfire smoke on older adults’ cardiovascular health, emphasizing the heightened vulnerability of aging populations to these environmental stressors. 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. More information can be found here.
Apply Now to CSDE’s NIH Grant Writing Summer Program (05/15/26)
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. Applications are due May 15. Additional questions? Contact goodreau@uw.edu.
Program eligibility and costs (including one change from previous years):
- Free: CSDE affiliates (UW and external)
- Free: UW Faculty and research scientists (planning to affiliate with CSDE)
- Free: UW-based post-docs writing K awards with one or more CSDE affiliates on their mentoring team
- $7,500: Other researchers in the Seattle area
- $7,500: Post-docs who are based outside UW, writing K awards with one or more CSDE affiliates on their mentoring team
- Current graduate students are not eligible to apply.
Call for Applications: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)- IMPRS-PHDS (Due to CSDE 05/26/26)
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.
Lecturer in Sociology – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (05/01/26)
The School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology – Program in Criminal Justice seeks a full-time, non-tenure track instructor to teach undergraduate courses in the Criminal Justice Program for the 2026–2027 academic year.
Courses may be introductory surveys or upper-level courses focused on specific themes or topics consistent with the criminal justice curriculum and faculty expertise. Candidates who can teach courses on correctional systems, penology, prisons, and/or prisoners, are especially encouraged to apply.
As the instructor of record, the individual is responsible for preparing the course syllabus, delivering lectures, and leading discussions, assessing student work in a timely manner, holding weekly office hours, responding to student emails, and submitting final course grades to the registrar. We are only accepting applications from those willing to teach in-person.
The teaching load is 3–3 (six courses total for AY 2026–2027). This is a 1-year, nonrenewable position.
https://socioloxy.com/lecturer-in-sociology,i11865,n792178.html
Visiting Faculty in Sociology (2026) – Grand Valley State University (05/04/26)
IPUMS Data Updates: DHS, IHGIS, and CPS
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.