A funding opportunity unlike any other! The National Academy of Medicine’s Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards is accepting bold, new ideas to promote health throughout the lifespan. Two-page narrative applications accepted through February 27, 2023, at 11:59 pm EST. Individuals and teams from all disciplines and sectors, including Public Health with novel ideas to extend human health and well-being, at any stage of life, are invited to apply. The competition is simple—a 2-page narrative submission is all it takes to be considered for an award worth $50K, plus exclusive access to additional funding opportunities.

 

Details: https://nam.edu/initiatives/grand-challenge-healthy-longevity/u-s-nam-catalyst-award-competition-round-2-2021/

The latest issue of Demography is available for access.  This is an open access journal for anyone!  Enjoy reading about, and appreciating, the breadth and depth of population research from state variability in life span and cause-of-death to the impact of structural inequality on family life, age and cohort trends in forms of family support, educational assortative marriage trends in China, disasters and migration, suburbanization and urban segregation, and mortality trends and its causes and impacts.

Join UWISC as they host UW PhD student Jessica Sciarone, who will be presenting a paper, titled “Why Women Are (Not Always) Right: Radicalization Pathways of Women in Far-Right Extremist Organizations.” This is fascinating and timely research and should make for excellent discussion. Her paper is attached.

UW political science Ph.D. student Jana Foxe will serve as the discussant.

The talk will be held from 1:30-3:00pm on Friday, February 17th in Gowen 1A. If you plan to attend remotely, please use the following Zoom link and password.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/98035982561?pwd=R0FLczYvY2drcW1FT1Y5VEZQSGVxUT09
Meeting ID: 980 3598 2561
Passcode: 295952

Join UWISC as they host UW PhD student Jessica Sciarone, who will be presenting a paper, titled “Why Women Are (Not Always) Right: Radicalization Pathways of Women in Far-Right Extremist Organizations.” This is fascinating and timely research and should make for excellent discussion. Her paper is attached.

UW political science Ph.D. student Jana Foxe will serve as the discussant.

The talk will be held from 1:30-3:00pm on Friday, February 17th in Gowen 1A. If you plan to attend remotely, please use the following Zoom link and password.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/98035982561?pwd=R0FLczYvY2drcW1FT1Y5VEZQSGVxUT09
Meeting ID: 980 3598 2561
Passcode: 295952

The Department of Sociology of Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) seeks to fill at least two faculty lines at the Assistant or Associate Professor level *beginning in September 2023. We are especially interested in candidates with expertise in one of the following:

1) immigration, race/ethnicity, and xenophobia; 2) *public health, *the environment, and demography; and 3) work, labor, and occupations.

Additional strengths in digital sociology and/or public policy are a plus.

We are located in New York City, and offer a liberal arts major as well as a master’s program to a large, diverse and vibrant student body. Hunter College is one of the eleven senior colleges of the City University of New York with close to 20,000 students and the Department has over 650 majors.

Hunter is committed to active engagement with students and the community at large, and embraces equity, inclusiveness, and global awareness in all dimensions of our work.

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announces the fifth competition for Leading Edge Fellowships, made possible by the generous support of the Mellon Foundation. The program demonstrates the dynamic capacity of the humanities to advance justice and equity in society.

In 2023, the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Program will offer 22 two-year fellowships partnering recent humanities and interpretive social sciences PhDs with organizations advancing social justice and equity in communities across the United States. The fellowships are designed to draw on the humanistic skills, capacities, and frameworks developed in the course of earning the PhD and provide a range of networking and career-building opportunities.

This year, ACLS is partnering with 22 nonprofit organizations including the Campaign for Southern Equality (Asheville, NC), Gender Justice (Saint Paul, MN), and Strategic Action for a Just Economy (Los Angeles, CA).

ACLS is now accepting fellowship applications, with submissions due by 9:00 PM EDT on Wednesday, March 15, 2023.

Each Leading Edge Fellow will receive a $66,000 stipend in year one, and $70,000 in year two, as well as health insurance, professional development funding, and mentorship. Fellows will contribute to initiatives and projects advancing the rights of immigrant workers and students, promoting strategic social change through the arts, and advocating for reproductive justice in communities like Saint Paul, MN and Dallas, TX. The fellows also will participate in a variety of professional development and networking activities designed to help translate the experiences of their two-year placements into post-fellowship career opportunities.

The Leading Edge Fellowship program welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds including historically underrepresented groups such as Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaskan Native scholars, first generation college students, scholars from low-income backgrounds, formerly incarcerated scholars, queer and trans scholars, and scholars with disabilities.

This summer, IAPHS will hold an election to choose a new president-elect, three Board members, and a Student Representative. The Nominations Committee, chaired by Past President Roland Thorpe, invites suggestions for nominees. Nominations must be received by February 13, 2023. Click here to submit a nomination.

About the positions:

The president-elect serves IAPHS for three years. They will serve as president-elect for a year, will lead the organization as president in 2025, and will serve as past-president in 2026. In 2024, they will begin planning the 2025 conference. In 2026, s/he will serve as chair of the Nominations Committee.

Board members provide overall leadership and strategic direction to the organization. During their three-year terms, they participate in conference calls and serve on committees.

The Student Representatives serve a two-year term. The Student board member represents the interests of students on the board and leads the Student Committee and their efforts.

IAPHS structures its nominations to assure diversity in the leadership of the organization by assuring that nominees for the various positions vary by career stage, discipline, and other characteristics.

The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies currently seeks applications from University of Washington graduate students for grants of up to $5,000 for research about work, workers, and workers’ organizations. Applicants must explain the significance of their proposed research to the interdisciplinary field of labor studies. Proposals must indicate how the research is likely to generate important new information, interpretations, scholarly resources, and contributions to the applicant’s discipline and field. Research may focus on any dimension of labor in the United States or abroad, including but not limited to class relations, social conditions of work,  labor processes, working-class culture and politics, work and gender, work and race/ethnicity, relationships between labor and the state, unions, or comparative international labor relations.  Grants can be submitted to Rachel Erstad, Research Coordinator of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, at rerstad@uw.edu. 

The purpose of these grants is to provide funding for research expenses, including travel costs and living expenses while traveling. Although not intended to cover everyday living expenses, applicants not requiring travel outside of the Puget Sound area may use the grant for local living expenses. Grants must be used within two years of receiving the grant and while the recipient is a registered student. Grant recipients will be requested to make a short presentation within this two-year period.