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The Office of Research Invites Applicants to Apply for the Royalty Research Fund Program for Spring 2023 (Due 3/6/2023)

The “Royalty” in RRF is the royalty and licensing fee income generated by the University’s technology transfer program. These funds are awarded as small grants to advance new directions in research, particularly:

  1. In disciplines for which external funding opportunities are minimal, and/or
  2. For faculty who are junior in rank, and/or
  3. In cases where funding may provide unique opportunities to increase applicants’ competitiveness for subsequent funding.

It is competitive process, and proposals must demonstrate a high probability of generating important new creative activities or scholarly understandings, new scholarly materials or resources, significant data or information, or essential instrumentation resources that are likely to significantly advance the reputation of the university, lead to external funding, or lead to the development of a new technology.

Essentially, if you have an innovative idea, want to run a pilot project, and/or gather preliminary data, funding from the RRF can help launch your idea.

Application instructions can be found at the Office of Research web site:

http://www.washington.edu/research/or/royalty-research-fund-rrf/

 

New this round: Application requires a statement of broader impacts. New language on conflict of interest for suggested reviewers.

 

Contact the RRF administrative staff with questions about the program; new applicants may contact Peter Wilsnack, doogieh@uw.edu, 206-685-9316.

As evidenced by these recent RRF awards to CSDE affiliates, topics range across all disciplines:

  • “Measuring Consumer Response to Sweetened Beverage Taxes using Household Data,” PI Melissa Knox
  • “Feasibility Study for Puget Sound Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing Data Project: Sound Data for a Healthy Sound,” PI Nathalie Williams
  • “Minimizing Sound Transmission of Mass-Timber Floor Systems by Means of Structural Stiffness,” PI Tomas Mendez Echenagucia
  • “We Should Have Blackmailed the EU Like Turkey Did”: Syrian Refugees and Governance in Jordan,” PI Rawan Arar

Grants for Research in Gun Violence Prevention (due 3/1/23)

Grandmothers Against Gun Violence seeks to support emerging scholars in gun violence prevention and to solicit research proposals for projects within Washington State.  Awards range from $15k-$75k.

 

Grandmothers Against Gun Violence seeks to support emerging scholars in gun violence prevention and to solicit research proposals for projects within Washington State.  Awards range from $15k-$75k.  Grandmothers Against Gun Violence Foundation (GAGVF) works to end gun violence in our communities by raising funds for research that informs public health and safety policies. The Foundation was created as a 501c3 nonprofit in 2019 to address the decades-long absence of research on gun violence and its prevention. We recognize gun violence as a complex public health problem that takes many forms: suicides, homicides, mass shootings, unintentional shootings, intergenerational trauma, and community violence. We seek remedies in research, education, and community engagement. We believe that sustained investments in research on gun violence and its prevention will lead to policies that save lives.

Research Priorities

  1. We seek to support emerging researchers in gun violence prevention.
  2. We solicit proposals for research projects conducted within Washington State.
  3. We encourage interdisciplinary research that involves disciplines such as public health, social work, psychology, medicine, nursing, public policy, urban planning, epidemiology, and education.
  4. We encourage research projects that address community-identified problems related to gun ownership, gun violence, and impacts on children, youth and families.
  5. We encourage projects that identify new questions or issues in an under-funded or emerging area of gun violence prevention research. Examples include:
  6. What are the impacts of gun violence within families? How are children, parents and grandparents who have a lost family member to gun violence differentially affected?
  7. What approaches to conflict resolution offer the best alternatives to gun ownership and use for groups impacted by interpersonal violence?
  8. How are older adults impacted by gun ownership and/or gun violence?
  9. What are current trends in gun ownership and gun use by women?
  10. We encourage projects that build on findings from projects previously funded by the Foundation. See summaries of previous research projects on the Foundation website.

Eligibility:

Early-career, Faculty & Pls, Graduate, Postdoctoral

Link to RFP

*New* Funding Opportunity @ Responsible Computing Challenge (Due 3/1/23)

The Mozilla Foundation has launched the Responsible Computing Challenge to advance the redesign of undergraduate curricula and pedagogy to support a next generation of technologists. The challenge awards range from $100k to $150k.

The Responsible Computing Challenge – supported by the Mellon Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, USAID, Mozilla – fund academic teams that combine faculty and practitioners from Computing, Humanities, Library and Information Science, and Social Science fields in order to reimagine how the next generation of technologists will be educated. By reimagining and redesigning undergraduate curricula and pedagogy to be both intentionally interdisciplinary and inclusive of diverse perspectives, the goal is to support a new wave of technologists who will:

  1. understand social and historical context
  2. think more critically about the design and use of technology
  3. deploy cultural sensitivity to recognize when and how technology work may perpetuate or deepen inequality
  4. create visions for more equitable systems across the technology sector and in related fields to ultimately build more responsible and ethical tools, applications, platforms, policies, and social norms.

Track I (up to $100,000): Track I awards up to $100,000 to a single institution for one year to support the conceptualization, development, and piloting of approaches that integrate responsible computing into existing undergraduate courses in the Humanities, Library and Information Science, Social Sciences, Computer Science, or closely related disciplines. This might look like the integration of computing topics into an existing undergraduate humanities course in ways that address the social-justice implications of relevant tech, or the integration of humanities topics into existing computing courses to highlight the kinds of knowledge needed to make responsible computing choices. Prioritized projects will broaden the diversity of perspectives in technology and represent those groups disproportionately impacted by technological harms.

Track II (up to $150,000): Track II awards up to $150,000 to partnerships across departments or institutions for one year to support the interdisciplinary conceptualization, development, and piloting of a scaled approach to integrating responsible computing into existing undergraduate courses across the Humanities, Library and Information Sciences, Social Sciences, and Computational fields. This might look, for instance, like computer science and gender and sexuality studies faculty coming together to revise multiple courses and/or allow cross-listing across departments for courses that integrate their approach to responsible computing.

Eligibility:

Faculty & Pls

The Responsible Computing Challenge is open to accredited institutions of higher education in the United States. The Principal Investigator/Co-Principal Investigators (PI/Co-PIs) listed on the award application must be eligible to receive and lead grants at their institution. PIs may work individually to execute the outlined concept, if funded, or with a collaborative, cross-disciplinary team with members that may come from both inside and outside of the institution of higher education. Such teams should include representatives from across departments, student researchers, industry partners and independent researchers.

Link to RFP

2023 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods (Beginning 06/19/2023)

Apply for the 2023 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods! They will be offering over 90 courses and lectures in research methods. Nearly all of which will be offered both in person and online live with recordings available. On campus housing is available for the 3-Week Sessions and Intersession! For more information, look here!

CSDE Workshop: Introduction to the UNIX/Linux Shell (2/23/23)

On February 23, join CSDE for a workshop on Unix/Linux with Instructor Phil Hurvitz!

In this workshop, students will learn the basics of interacting with the Unix operating system through the Unix shell, which is an interactive terminal that accepts interactive command-line or scripted input and produces printed or stored outputs. By the end of the workshop, students will learn about the overall organization of the Unix system, including a set of Unix commands and utilities, the structure of and use of the Unix file system, and some practical applications.

The target audience for this workshop spans the range from those who are curious about what the Unix shell is to those who are wanting to perform data-related tasks efficiently, particularly on large text files.

*New* Grants for Research in Gun Violence Prevention (due 3/1/23)

Grandmothers Against Gun Violence seeks to support emerging scholars in gun violence prevention and to solicit research proposals for projects within Washington State.  Awards range from $15k-$75k.

 

Grandmothers Against Gun Violence seeks to support emerging scholars in gun violence prevention and to solicit research proposals for projects within Washington State.  Awards range from $15k-$75k.  Grandmothers Against Gun Violence Foundation (GAGVF) works to end gun violence in our communities by raising funds for research that informs public health and safety policies. The Foundation was created as a 501c3 nonprofit in 2019 to address the decades-long absence of research on gun violence and its prevention. We recognize gun violence as a complex public health problem that takes many forms: suicides, homicides, mass shootings, unintentional shootings, intergenerational trauma, and community violence. We seek remedies in research, education, and community engagement. We believe that sustained investments in research on gun violence and its prevention will lead to policies that save lives.

Research Priorities

  1. We seek to support emerging researchers in gun violence prevention.
  2. We solicit proposals for research projects conducted within Washington State.
  3. We encourage interdisciplinary research that involves disciplines such as public health, social work, psychology, medicine, nursing, public policy, urban planning, epidemiology, and education.
  4. We encourage research projects that address community-identified problems related to gun ownership, gun violence, and impacts on children, youth and families.
  5. We encourage projects that identify new questions or issues in an under-funded or emerging area of gun violence prevention research. Examples include:
  6. What are the impacts of gun violence within families? How are children, parents and grandparents who have a lost family member to gun violence differentially affected?
  7. What approaches to conflict resolution offer the best alternatives to gun ownership and use for groups impacted by interpersonal violence?
  8. How are older adults impacted by gun ownership and/or gun violence?
  9. What are current trends in gun ownership and gun use by women?
  10. We encourage projects that build on findings from projects previously funded by the Foundation. See summaries of previous research projects on the Foundation website.

Eligibility:

Early-career, Faculty & Pls, Graduate, Postdoctoral

Link to RFP

Evans School Hosts Eric Chyn for Presentation on Long Run Effects of Residential Desegregation Programs

Please join the Evans School Research Seminar on Wednesday February 22nd at 11:30am in PAR 360, where Eric Chyn from the Department of Economics at UT-Austin will be giving a talk is entitled, “The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux.”

Abstract:  This paper provides new evidence on the long-run effects of residential racial desegregation programs by studying the Gautreaux Assisted Housing Program. From the late 1970s to the 1990s, Gautreaux assisted thousands of Black families in relocating to predominately White, mostly suburban neighborhoods. We link historical program records from Gautreaux to administrative data and use plausibly exogenous variation in neighborhood placements to estimate the effects of Gautreaux on the long-run outcomes of children. Being placed in a White neighborhood significantly boosts children’s future lifetime earnings, employment, and wealth. Gautreaux children placed in a White neighborhood are also significantly more likely to be married and twice as likely to be married to a White spouse. Moreover, neighborhood placements through Gautreaux shape the neighborhood choices of Gautreaux children in adulthood. Children placed in White neighborhoods

Evans School Research Seminar to Host Eric Chyn for a Talk on Long Run Effects of Residential Desegregation Programs

Please join the Evans School Research Seminar on Wednesday February 22nd at 11:30am in PAR 360, where Eric Chyn from the Department of Economics at UT-Austin will be giving a talk is entitled, “The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux.”

Abstract:  This paper provides new evidence on the long-run effects of residential racial desegregation programs by studying the Gautreaux Assisted Housing Program. From the late 1970s to the 1990s, Gautreaux assisted thousands of Black families in relocating to predominately White, mostly suburban neighborhoods. We link historical program records from Gautreaux to administrative data and use plausibly exogenous variation in neighborhood placements to estimate the effects of Gautreaux on the long-run outcomes of children. Being placed in a White neighborhood significantly boosts children’s future lifetime earnings, employment, and wealth. Gautreaux children placed in a White neighborhood are also significantly more likely to be married and twice as likely to be married to a White spouse. Moreover, neighborhood placements through Gautreaux shape the neighborhood choices of Gautreaux children in adulthood. Children placed in White neighborhoods

Research Assistant Position (50% FTE) – Evans School of Public Policy and Governance UW

The Evans Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC) in the Evans School, is seeking a doctoral research assistant with a passion for public policy, data-driven decision making, equity, and innovation. The UW Evans School of Public Policy & Governance is the 2nd ranked public school of public administration in the country, nationally recognized for our teaching, research, and community impact.