CSDE Affiliate Kam Wing Chan has published his first book in Chinese by Peking University Press in China. The book, titled 大国城民: 城镇化及户籍改革 (Becoming Urban Citizens: Urbanization and China’s Hukou Reform) is a project that has taken him several years to complete. The book weaves together his decades of research on China up to 2022 and is written in a more accessible language for a larger audience in China. A description of his book is here. Fantastic work, Professor Chan!

CSDE Affiliate Vince Wang’s mega study on community land trusts was just released by the Grounded Solutions Network.  The study yields a unique community land trust dataset for which Wang is looking to analyze and collaborate with colleagues around.  For more details, see the press release from the Grounded Solutions Network at the University of Toronto.

CSDE Affiliate Stipica Mudrazija recently published an article entitled “How Does Debt Shape Health Outcomes for Older Americans?” in The Journal of Social Science & Medicine.

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (1998–2016), he examines a range of physical and mental health measures and assesses how they may be shaped by the amount and type of debt held by older adults. Great work, Dr. Mudrazija!

External Affiliate Mahesh Somashekhar recently published “Where the Great Cities Go, Do Other Cities Follow? Divergent Trajectories of LGBTQ Organizational Growth Across the United States During the AIDS Crisis” in the Journal of Homosexuality.

This study leverages nationally complete data from the U.S. Gayellow Pages, a historical listing of local LGBTQ organizations, to evaluate how the organizational response of LGBTQ communities to the AIDS crisis—arguably the most prolific era of organizational creation in LGBTQ history—differed between large hubs and other cities. Wonderful work, Dr. Somashekhar!

This year, CSDE Research Computing secured an annual ongoing STF Block Award in the amount of $173,700.00. This is a vital resource for CSDE computing and is the result of over 20 years of successful, annual grant applications to STF. STF has been extremely impressed by the services we provide to UW students and now recognizes that service and facilities with an ongoing block award. The award pays for software licensing, support, hardware, upgrades, servers, storage and so much more! It allows CSDE to support any UW student on campus with remote access computing for their projects and research.

Please let currently enrolled UW Students know about the CSDE Computing system and encourage them to use us for their projects and research.

Links below:

A list of software available on the CSDE Terminal Servers:
https://csde.washington.edu/computing/resources/terminal-server-software/

Computing Resources:
https://csde.washington.edu/computing/resources/

Apply for an account:
https://csde.washington.edu/computing/accounts/

CSDE Affiliate Gregg Colburn and Christine Cimini (UW Law School) are seeking a graduate research assistant to conduct research on the use of mediation/conflict resolution techniques to improve the residential stability of households served by Seattle Housing Authority. They have secured funding to support a graduate student (PhD student preferred) for the entire 2023-2024 academic year at a 50% appointment.

The UW Law School Mediation Clinic, in partnership with two local non-profits, King County Dispute Resolution Center (KCDRC) and Housing Connector (HC), designed a pilot program called Conflict Resolution Services (CRS).

See the full job description here.