The East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference (IGSC) is accepting abstracts from current graduate students, as well as from scholars, practitioners, artists, and scientists, who have completed a graduate degree within the past three years. IGSC welcomes abstracts globally and from any discipline related to the US and Asia-Pacific region.

This year’s theme is Elucidating the Periphery: Rethinking Neglected Narratives and Novel Approaches. This student-organized conference provides an opportunity to venture beyond one’s own boundaries to interface with neglected narratives from peripheral perspectives as well as novel techniques in a transdisciplinary context.

Abstract submissions:

All abstract submissions must be made through the secure Submittable online platform. The deadline to submit abstracts is September 15th, 2023, 23:59 hrs (Hawai‘i Standard Time).

Please see the conference website for Frequently Asked Questions on abstract guidelines, conference registration, and other logistics. For any other questions not covered in Frequently Asked Questions, please send your inquiry to the IGSC team at igsc@eastwestcenter.org.

The Population Association of America has just opened up its submission portal for papers proposed for the 2024 Annual Meetings. They will welcome your submissions for the PAA 2024 Annual Meeting and look forward to a full and rigorous scientific conference next spring in Columbus, Ohio!

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Please note a few important items:

• All accepted presenters will be required to pre-register for the conference by February 5, 2023.
• PAA cannot accommodate schedule requests; if your paper or poster is accepted, it could be scheduled any time between Thursday, April 17 and Saturday, April 20.
• Individuals can only serve as a presenting author twice on the program, but can have additional roles such as chair or discussant.
• Organizers will not review papers from authors with whom they have a conflict of interest (close collaborators or current students/postdocs). As such, please do not submit your abstract to someone with whom you may have a conflict of interest.
• There will be no travel awards for PAA 2024.

CSDE External Affiliate Arni Rao recently led research on an article entitled, “Stationary status of discrete and continuous age-structured population models” published in Mathematical Biosciences. This article argues how the partition theorem-based approach provides more up-to-date and timely measures to find the status of the population stationarity of a country better than the NRR-(net reproductive rate) based approach. He questions the timeliness of the value of NRR in deciding the stationary process of the country and proves associated theorems on discrete and continuous age distributions and derive measurable functional properties. Wonderful work, Dr. Rao!

CSDE affiliates may be interested to read Dr. Diana Bianchi’s blog post about the impact of climate change events on health. Many of NICHD’s populations of interest are adversely affected by these climate crises. Dr. Bianchi refers to several NICHD funded projects that examine how climate related severe events impact child health and development, as well as maternal and infant child health.

The Office of Research was made aware from several research teams that there are privacy concerns regarding research participant payments with FT go-live. To facilitate payment via check or Zelle, Workday Finance requires entry of the participant’s name, SSN/TIN, bank account numbers, and/or other private information to process payments of any amount. This is a concern for research projects that include participants who do not have SSN/TINs, bank accounts, or are reluctant to share this information. For researchers who do process a research subject payment via check or Zelle in Workday, the approval request will include the participant’s private information. It is important to note that the approval request will route broadly throughout the UW because of the way security roles are set up in Workday. Research teams have also reported that the Field Advance cash payment method is currently permitted only in exceptional circumstances. The Office of Research notified Procurement of these issues in the new Tu/Th Procurement Office Hours this week. The WD and Procurement team recommended having all affected researchers submit a UW Connect ticket to their local FT Shared Environment.

NEVERTHELESS, PLEASE TAKE THE FOLLOWING ACTION if these are concerns you are facing: If your research teams have experienced any issues with participant compensation, please request they submit a UW Connect ticket. It will be most helpful if they can be explicit about their experience and the impacts it is having or will have on research participants, studies, and programs.

Please distribute this request to colleagues who may be facing these problems or know others who are.