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DOJ Office on Violence Against Women Announces Research Grant Opportunity (LOIs due 2/7/25)

The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced their Research and Evaluation (R&E) Initiative. The R&E Initiative is designed to study approaches to addressing and preventing domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking, so that communities benefiting from OVW grant funds will be better equipped to align their work with practices that are known to be effective.
OVW’s R&E Initiative seeks proposals for evaluations of Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)-funded interventions and emerging innovations in diverse communities and in settings including law enforcement, prosecution, courts, victim services, community-based and culturally specific programs, healthcare, schools, faith communities, and more. The initiative supports researcher-practitioner partnerships and a broad range of rigorous research and evaluation methods, including qualitative, mixed-method, quasi-experimental, and experimental designs. Grants of up to $500,000 are available. View the full call for proposals here.
For FY 2025, OVW encourages R&E Initiative applicants to address one or more of the following topics, which are described in full in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): evaluations of VAWA-funded interventions, evaluations of trainings, strategies, policies, practices, tools, and other means of fostering trauma-informed law enforcement and prosecutorial responses to sexual assault, domestic/dating violence, and stalking, research and evaluation on LGBT-specific services, outreach, training, education, and prevention, research and evaluation on ways of ensuring language access in responses to gender-based violence, evaluation of training curricula, tools, and other technical assistance (TA) resources developed and implemented with OVW grant funds, evaluations of emerging innovations, secondary data analyses related to domestic/dating violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking, research, evaluation, and data analysis related to domestic violence homicide prevention, and evaluations of restorative practices. This year’s R&E Initiative topic areas include a $5 million funding opportunity to evaluate Abby Honold Act-funded programs.

UW Latino Center for Health Announces Small Grant Program (due 2/10/25)

The UW Latino Center for Health recently announced their Small Grant Program, a $25,000 grant to fund research focused on Latinx health in Washington state. Applicants should include a partnership between a UW faculty investigator and a community-based organization that serves Latinx individuals, families, or communities.

Each grant award is up to $25,000 and does not include indirect costs. The deadline for submission is February 10, 2025. Funds will be awarded in May 2025 for up to a one-year project with a community partner. Learn more about this opportunity and access the application here.

eScience Institute Data Science & AI Accelerator (2/6/25)

The eScience Institute’s accelerator program is looking for projects from any field that would benefit from collaboration on data intensive and AI approaches, such as machine learning, scalable data management, statistical analysis, data visualization, open-source software development, and cloud and scalable computing.  To be considered for spring quarter, submit a proposal by February 6th. Learn more and sign up for an info session on January 23rd here.

The Power Density of Electricity Consumption: A Convergence of Technical and Behavioral Challenges in Sustainable Transitions – Dr. Patrick Greiner 

When: Friday, Jan 31, 2025 (12:30-1:30PM)

Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)

We are looking forward to hosting Patrick Greiner (Sociology, UW) on Friday, Jan. 31st  in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative. 

There is an increasing recognition of the need to curb carbon dioxide emissions as rapidly as possible to mitigate the most socially disruptive outcomes of global environmental change. As energy use constitutes one of the primary sources of greenhouse gas emissions and, as a result, climatic change, growing attention has been centered on the development of new energy extraction and production technologies and infrastructures. Simultaneously, there has been a growing body of research that asserts behavioral and social changes that reduce energy consumption are also needed, and perhaps more urgently so, if global societies are to rise to the challenge of reducing emissions in a timely manner. However, because of conceptual and methodological challenges there is little consensus as to how much energy consumption patterns will need to change considering improving, more sustainable, energy production and distribution infrastructures.

To address this gap, I integrate the concept of power density into discussions of sustainable transitions and climate change mitigation. Using this concept, I illustrate how researchers and analysts can 1) calculate the power density that is necessary to support regional and global patterns of energy consumption, 2) evaluate the discrepancy between power density required to support that consumption and the power density that renewable energy technologies appropriate for the geography in question are capable of, and 3) use the discrepancy between those figures as a novel way of understanding and discussing energy inequality and justice.