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Seto Releases New Paper on Particle Emissions from Cooking Oil Fumes and Interventions

Recent work by CSDE Affiliate Edmund Seto, “Characterization of time- and size-dependent particle emissions and decay from cooking oil fumes in residence: Impacts of various intervention measures“, has appeared in Building Simulation. Through a real-world campaign in a naturally-ventilated apartment in the northwest US, this study investigates the temporal profiles of size-resolved particle number concentrations (PNCs) ranging from 0.3 to 10 µm from frying cooking activities. The cooking scenarios included various combinations of window ventilation, venting range hood (VRH) use, and portable air cleaner (PAC) utilization.

Adhia and Co-Authors Publish New Work on Barriers to Reporting Sexual Violence Among College Athletes

CSDE Affiliate Avanti Adhia and co-authors have recently published a new paper entitled, “Structural and Sport-related Barriers to Formally Reporting Sexual Violence Among Undergraduate Student-athletes” in the Journal of Family Violence. This paper surveys student-athletes from 10 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I institutions across the United States to understand perceived barriers to formally reporting SV. The authors analyzed responses using descriptive statistics for closed-ended questions and inductive thematic analysis for open-ended questions.

CSDE Seminar: Heterogeneous Neighborhood Effects on Young Adult Educational Outcomes

1-on-1 Signups with Dr. Galster can be found Here

This week’s seminar speaker Dr. George Galster (Wayne State University) will lecture on “Heterogeneous Neighborhood Effects on Young Adult Educational Outcomes.”  Dr. Galster’s research uses longitudinal register data from Oslo, Norway, to examine how cumulative childhood exposures to family and neighborhood contexts influence the educational attainments of young adults, paying special attention to how these determinants vary by gender and immigrant status.

George Galster Biography

 

Dr. Galster is the Clarence Hillberry Professor of Urban Affairs and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Wayne State University.  Dr. Galster provides a wealth of experience in academic, governmental, non-profit, and for-profit circles, both in the U.S. and abroad. He has held positions at the Universities of: Harvard, Cal-Berkeley, North Carolina, Amsterdam, Delft, Glasgow, Mannheim, Western Sydney and The College of Wooster. He served as Director of Housing Research at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC before coming to Wayne State University in 1996. Dr. Galster has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U. S. Department of Justice, numerous municipalities, community organizations, civil rights groups, and organizations like the National Association of Realtors, American Bankers Association, and Fannie Mae. He has served on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, National Academy of Science review committees, and numerous other leadership positions in community service. Public officials in Australia, Canada, China, France, Scotland, and the U.S. have sought his housing and urban policy consultations.  Dr. Galster research examines metropolitan housing markets, racial discrimination and segregation, neighborhood dynamics, residential reinvestment, community lending and insurance patterns, neighborhood effects, and urban poverty. His nine authored, co-authored, and edited books include Homeowners and Neighborhood Reinvestment, 1987; The Maze of Urban Housing Markets, 1991; The Metropolis in Black and White, 1992; Reality and Research: Social Science and American Urban Policy since 1960, 1996; Why NOT in My Back Yard?: The Neighborhood Impacts of Assisted Housing, 2003; Life in Poverty Neighborhoods, 2005; Frontiers of Quantifying Neighborhood Effects, 2008; Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City, 2012 and Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves, forthcoming 2019.

 

Almquist, Holland Jones, and Yang Present at PAA 2023 and Awarded Best Poster Award!

CSDE Fellow June Yang presented research co-authored with CSDE Training Core PI Zack Almquist and James Holland Jones (Stanford University) at the PAA 2023 Annual Meeting held in New Orleans. The project “Political and Educational Dynamics in Religious Group’s Mask Resistance Under COVID-19” explores the mediation effect of Trump support on the relationship between religiosity and mask-wearing behavior under COVID-19, and how education moderates that relationship. June was awarded the Best Poster Award in the Poster Session titled COVID-19: Data and Methods. Congratulations!

 

*New* CSDE Will Host an Open House on May 5th in Raitt Hall – Stop By and Learn More @CSDE (3:30-5:30pm, 05/05/23)

You’re invited to CSDE’s first Open House.  Join us for a casual, drop-in style event with food, drinks, community, and a chance to learn more about the myriad ways CSDE can support your research and training. Chat with members of our Admin Core and Development Core in Raitt 206 to learn more about our research funding opportunities and grant support services. Begin your visit in Raitt 221 to enjoy some refreshments and to sign-in.  Then, visit our Science & Training Core teams in Raitt 223 to hear about our consulting services, the UW Data Collaborative, the Northwest Federal Statistics Research Data Center, and our Graduate Certificate Program in Demographic Methods.

Ozeryansky Awarded Fulbright Fellowship to Norway for Research on Ukrainian Refugees

Congratulations to CSDE Trainee Larisa Ozeryansky for receiving a Fulbright Fellowship award to support dissertation research regarding the health experiences of refugees from Ukraine! Larisa is currently a student in UW’s Interdisciplinary Individual PhD program and is advised by CSDE Training Core PI Zack Almquist (Sociology). Larisa will spend August 2023 to June 2024 at the Global Health Department at University of Oslo and the Norwegian Public Health Institute in Oslo, Norway. Subjects to be explored during the stay include healthcare access (barriers, programs, policies), the unique immersion and integration programs available to asylees in Norway (and implications on wellness of the nature-based activities), and other aspects of identity and belonging. This field work will complement the steps Larisa has already taken to start assessing health experiences and migration decision making for refugees from Ukraine, including the design and facilitation of an online survey during summer 2022 and the conduction of follow-up (virtual) interviews in winter 2023.

*New* Russell Sage Fdn Issues Call for Papers Examining Deportation and Its Aftermath (Due 07/15/23)

There is a new call from the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences for papers examining deportation and its aftermath. This proposed special issue of RSF aims to publish new scholarship that will speak to contemporary debates about immigration policy by enhancing our knowledge of the effects of, and responses to, the deportation system.  Deportation is often framed as a singular event that happens to individuals.  This issue conceptualizes deportation in broad terms as a system that encompasses pre-migration, within-US, ad post deportation outcomes in countries of origin.

 

The United States experienced massive growth in immigration law enforcement over the past several decades, resulting in record numbers of apprehensions, detentions, and removals. This mass, forced expulsion has extensively impacted individual, household, and community wellbeing, both in the U.S. and in countries of origin. A robust and multidisciplinary corpus of research documents the causes and effects of the deportation system, including a growing area of study examining the experiences of immigrants and their families after deportation has occurred.

This proposed special issue of RSF aims to publish new scholarship that will speak to contemporary debates about immigration policy by enhancing our knowledge of the effects of, and responses to, the deportation system. Deportation is often framed as a singular event that happens to individuals. This issue conceptualizes deportation in broad terms, as a system that encompasses pre-migration, within-U.S., and post-deportationoutcomes in countries of origin. Regarding pre-migration outcomes, for some immigrants, the potential for deportation starts even before an immigrants’ journey to the destination country, depending on their access to paths to legal entry. Within-US refers to the experiences of migrants and their families and communities in the context of immigration laws, policies, and enforcement patterns of the expelling country. Post-deportationoutcomes may encompass the experiences of deported people, of de facto deportees who are not the directly expelled but leave with the deported person, as well as social, economic, and political responses to deportation and deported peoples. The overarching objective for the issue is to publish outstanding new studies that further the theorization and documentation of the direct and indirect impacts of the deportation system and its aftermath.

Please click here for a full description of the topics covered in this call for papers.

Anticipated Timeline

Prospective contributors should submit a CV and an abstract (up to two pages in length, single or double spaced) of their study along with up to two pages of supporting material (e.g., tables, figures, pictures, etc.) no later than 5 PM EST on July 15, 2023 to:

https://rsf.fluxx.io

NOTE that if you wish to submit an abstract and do not yet have an account with us, it can take up to 48 hours to get credentials, so please start your application at least two days before the deadline. All submissions must be original work that has not been previously published in part or in full. Only abstracts submitted to https://rsf.fluxx.io will be considered. Each paper will receive a $1,000 honorarium when the issue is published. All questions regarding this issue should be directed to Suzanne Nichols, Director of Publications, at journal@rsage.org and not to the email addresses of the editors of the issue.

A conference will take place at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City on May 31, 2024. The selected contributors will gather for a one-day workshop to present draft papers (due a month prior to the conference on 4/31/24) and receive feedback from the other contributors and editors. Travel costs, food, and lodging for one author per paper will be covered by the foundation. Papers will be circulated before the conference. After the conference, the authors will submit their revised drafts by 9/4/24. The papers will then be sent out to three additional scholars for formal peer review. Having received feedback from reviewers and the RSF board, authors will revise their papers by 4/21/25. The full and final issue will be published in the fall of 2025. Papers will be published open access on the RSF website as well as in several digital repositories, including JSTOR and UPCC/Muse.

Please click here for a full description of the topics covered in this call for papers.

CSDE Workshop: Agent Based Modeling in R (4/27/23)

Make sure to check out the next CSDE Workshop entitled “Agent Based Modeling in R.”, providing a basic introduction into Agent-Based Modeling. The workshop will be divided into three sections.  During the first third of the course we will review and discuss the basic elements of ABMs and their application in a variety of fields including demography, sociology, anthropology, political science and public health.  In the second section of the course we will work through 1 or two seminal example of an ABM and reproduce the models in base R. Due to the limited time available, the R code to build these models will be provided to participants in advance. Finally, we will walk through an example of a complex ABM using the statnet and EpiModel R packages. Students will not require these packages to complete the workshop.

By the end of the workshop participants will be able to describe the unique features of ABM that make them distinct from other modeling approaches, write R functions to produce a simple ABM, and be familiar with additional R packages that provide functionality for ABM.