This award provides support for collaborative exploratory work that opens new ground for comprehensively assessing or mitigating the impacts of climate change on human health. This program will support both individual scientists and multi-investigator teams. Early career faculty and postdoctoral fellows nearing their transition to independence are especially encouraged to apply, whether individually or within teams.

The BWF’s goal is to prime new discoveries in areas that are difficult to reach through discipline-specific, silo-driven approaches. Through this program, they will provide flexible funding for conceiving and piloting work that will grow into productive and informative collaborations among researchers approaching connected questions from fields that usually do not interact.

 

To begin in The Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity’s 55th year, this new recognition award will formally acknowledge another community member whose diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) leadership inspires young changemakers, and exemplifies the spirit of the Charles E. Odegaard award. It will recognize the accomplishments of a recent UW graduate, who made significant DEI contributions during their time as a University of Washington student and continues to do so post-graduation.

Nominations may be submitted by anyone, and the criteria can be found on the Spark Award web page.  They look forward to recognizing the new Spark Award recipient on May 15, 2024, at their next annual OMA&D Celebration event. Please share this announcement and call for nominations in your networks.

PHI is now accepting applications for Tier 1 grants. The purpose of a Tier 1 grant is to support researchers in laying the foundation for a future project to generate proof-of-concept within research themes such as Safety, Health & Well-being, Equity & Justice and Education. Awards of up to $25,000 per project will be available with a project period of up to eight months. Click here to apply.

Applications for this year’s Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy awards are now open!

The amount of each award has been increased for 2024 from $7500 to $10,000, and twenty awards will be given. The Foundation will also give two Special Awards: A Trustees Award, for the most innovative project (worth an additional $3,000), and the Irving Louis Horowitz Award for the most outstanding project (worth an additional $5,000).

All eligible applications must be submitted by this year’s deadline, 11:59pm December 1, 2023.

Apply here.

Sign up now to give a presentation as part of eScience Institute’s UW Data Science Seminar Series. The annual series will resume in person for the Fall 2023 Quarter on Tuesday, October 4th in the PAA Auditorium 102. The series showcases a variety of data science methods and tools and how they’re utilized in domain science fields, regional partners, governmental agencies, and industry. The eScience Institute welcomes researchers at any stage in their career, from postdoctoral scholars and beyond. They are looking to host scholars for presentations between October 2023 and May 2024. Seminar dates are filled on a first come, first served basis – sign up here.

The Washington State Academy of Sciences just announced this year’s newly elected members. CSDE Affiliates Betty Bekemeier, Sara Curran, and David Swanson were just elected members of the Washington State Academy of Sciences. UW News provides a summary of the eight UW faculty elected to WSAS, including the three CSDE affiliates.

Bekemeier (Nursing) was elected for her work towards improving public health systems and services, particularly her work on Senator Murray’s Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act. Bekemeier has made invaluable contributions towards standardizing public health financial data for assessing impact.

Curran (International Studies, Sociology, and Public Policy) was elected for her work in demography and the sociology of migration, through multi-faceted approaches that illuminate dynamic interplay between demographic conditions and factors such as gender, socio-economic context, and climate change.

Swanson (External Affiliate, UC Riverside) was elected for his contributions to the field of demography including work on pressing social and health questions such as the changing demography of the U.S., the impact of immigration on society, and the short- and long-term consequences of health problems like COVID-19.

Finally, CSDE Executive Committee Member Ann Bostrom was re-elected to the Board of WSAS.

A heartfelt congratulations to all!