This summer will remain productive and busy for many of us at CSDE!  But, we’ll also be enjoying some time for rest and relaxation!  We hope the same for you – on both fronts!  CSDE’s e-news issues will be moving to a biweekly schedule for the summer.  Our next issue will be published the week of July 3.  Please send your e-news items to csde@uw.edu by June 29, 2023.  We’ll look forward to hearing from you! ~ CSDE

During the spring quarter, CSDE welcomed Dr. Sofia Ayala as a Research Scientist and Executive Director of the Northwest Federal Statistical Research Data Center (NWFSRDC). She joins our team of experienced research scientists whose mission is to facilitate population research among CSDE Affiliates and Graduate Trainees. The NWFSRDC offers a secure access-point for qualified researchers with approved projects to conduct research using restricted-use micro data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other government agencies and entities across the U.S. federal statistical system. Sofia assumes this leadership role from our Dr. Mark Ellis, who spearheaded the NWFSRDC’s establishment in 2012 and has been its executive director since then. We deeply thank Mark for his service to the NWFSRDC and the national FSRDC program and look forward to his continued advice to expand research that uses restricted-use microdata at UW and other Pacific Northwest institutions.

Sofia holds a doctorate in public policy and a master’s degree in economics from The University of Texas at Austin. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in economics with a minor in mathematics from the University of Texas—Pan American (now, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley). Prior to joining the University of Washington, Sofia was an economist in the Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics at Social Security Administration (SSA) in Washington, DC, where she conducted administratively-sensitive research on SSA’s disability programs and their beneficiaries using administrative and restricted-use microdata. Previously, she was a researcher in the Bureau of Business Research at IC2 Institute in The University of Texas at Austin. Sofia’s research examines economic and health disparities, including those related to disability, across space, time, and socio-demographic groups. Her research also studies the barriers or conditions that limit work and well-being across subpopulations.

Please join us in welcoming Sofia to our research community, and we invite you to reach out to her for questions about accessing federal restricted-use microdata for research via her email sgayala@uw.edu.

The U.S. National Science Foundation, in collaboration with other federal agencies, higher education institutions and other stakeholders, today announced a $140 million investment to establish seven new National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes. The announcement is part of a broader effort across the federal government to advance a cohesive approach to AI-related opportunities and risks.

The new AI Institutes will advance foundational AI research that promotes ethical and trustworthy AI systems and technologies, develop novel approaches to cybersecurity, contribute to innovative solutions to climate change, expand the understanding of the brain, and leverage AI capabilities to enhance education and public health. The institutes will support the development of a diverse AI workforce in the U.S. and help address the risks and potential harms posed by AI.  This investment means  NSF and its funding partners have now invested close to half a billion dollars in the AI Institutes research network, which reaches almost every U.S. state.

The new working paper series hosted by the Association of Population Centers has three new working papers.  You, too, can also add your papers to this listing!  You can read Sam Trejo and Klint Kanopka’s paper on phenotype difference models and what they reveal about genetic effects on mortality.  Also, see Noli Brazil and Jennifer Candipan’s paper on millennials as a demographic bridge towards diversity.  Finally, check out Michael Rendell’s paper on the acquisition of disability after age 50, following extreme urban coastal flooding events.

 

The Phenotype Differences Model Reveals Genetic Effects on Mortality Using Incomplete Sibling Data
Trejo, Sam and Klint Kanopka. APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2303. 2023.

 

Millennials as a Demographic Bridge to Diversity? Segregation and Diversity of Young Adult Neighborhoods

Brazil, Noli, and Jennifer Candipan. APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2302. 2023.

 

Acquistion of disability after age 50 following extreme urban coastal flooding events in India
Rendall, Michael S. APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2301. 2023.

 

https://www.popcenters.org/resources/association-of-population-centers-arxiv-apca/

The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to build research capacity and infrastructure to address complex and compounding national and global crises whose solutions require a human-centered approach. To help generate effective and long-lasting solutions that benefit the U.S. public, NSF is providing this funding opportunity to inform possible future Centers for Research and Innovation in Science, the Environment and Society (CRISES).

The envisioned centers will catalyze new research and research-based innovations to address seemingly intractable problems that confront our society. They will develop evidence-based solutions that address fundamental quality-of-life issues, such as those involving the environment, extreme weather and sustainability; workforce and the economy; equity and access to opportunities; and well-being.

This funding opportunity is led by NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE) in partnership with NSF’s directorates for Engineering (ENG) and Geosciences (GEO).

SBE supports research to understand the social and behavioral aspects of our rapidly changing world and how these issues are affected by our social, economic and natural environments. Fundamental and use-inspired research supported by the directorate advances our understanding of people, organizations and society, while revealing emerging opportunities to address challenges affecting our ability to live healthy and productive lives.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to build research capacity and infrastructure to address complex and compounding national and global crises whose solutions require a human-centered approach. To help generate effective and long-lasting solutions that benefit the U.S. public, NSF is providing this funding opportunity to inform possible future Centers for Research and Innovation in Science, the Environment and Society (CRISES).

The envisioned centers will catalyze new research and research-based innovations to address seemingly intractable problems that confront our society. They will develop evidence-based solutions that address fundamental quality-of-life issues, such as those involving the environment, extreme weather and sustainability; workforce and the economy; equity and access to opportunities; and well-being.

This funding opportunity is led by NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE) in partnership with NSF’s directorates for Engineering (ENG) and Geosciences (GEO).

SBE supports research to understand the social and behavioral aspects of our rapidly changing world and how these issues are affected by our social, economic and natural environments. Fundamental and use-inspired research supported by the directorate advances our understanding of people, organizations and society, while revealing emerging opportunities to address challenges affecting our ability to live healthy and productive lives.