As the calendar year comes to a close and UW’s Autumn Quarter wraps up, all of us at CSDE’s offices are grateful to the broader CSDE community!  Your good and impactful research, your scholarly generosity, and your curiosity and persistence in tackling tough empirical challenges has inspired and buoyed us during this turbulent year.  We are grateful for all that you do and we are honored to continue to support your research programs. 

At CSDE we center graduate training as an essential pairing for accomplishing successful research. With support from UW College of Arts & Sciences our certificate program is thriving. Additional support from the Population Dynamics Branch at NICHD and NIH’s Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, as well as a Shanahan Endowment, provides additional advanced data analytics training through a T32 fellowship or a Max Planck Fellowship. However, some of the most important resources for graduate students are the professional development ones, such as support for travel and research funding. These are only possible through individual donations to our gift funds. As you think about your end-of-year giving, please consider a gift to CSDE’s graduate training – it’s an important investment in the future of demography and CSDE.

Another valuable component of our research and training program is CSDE’s weekly seminar. This winter’s seminar series will include talks featuring Andrew Messamore (UW, Sociology), Karin Martin (UW, Public Policy), Avanti Adhia (UW, Nursing),  Sarah Komisarow (Duke, Public Policy & Economics), Michael Schultz (UW, Public Policy), Bussarawan (Puk) Teerawichitchainan (National University of Singapore, Sociology), Kristin Perkins (Georgetown University, Sociology), Gabriella Levy (UW, Political Science), Robert Crosnoe (The University of Texas at Austin, Sociology), and Jake Watson (UC San Diego, Sociology).

Join us in 2026 on Fridays at 12:30 pm in 360 Parrington Hall!