The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.
Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. We recognize that early-career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take measured risks in their work, so this award includes a mentoring component, as well as a supportive academic community.
Proposed research plans must address questions that are relevant to policy and practice in the Foundation’s focus areas:
1) Reducing inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5–25 in the United States, along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual or gender minority status, language minority status, or immigrant origins, and
2) Improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States.
Pre-Proposal Instructions:
Please submit as one combined pdf labeled with PI’s Lastname, Firstname:
- A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach.
- If the final application requires a diversity statement or statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
- CV (not biosketch) of the PI.
to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Proposals are due to the sponsor 7/1/2025, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 6/20/2025 if given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee. Note: there is also a 6/11/25 sponsor deadline for mentor and reference letters.
The CSDE Development Core is once again hosting its annual Grant Writing Summer Program (GWSP) to assist scholars in preparing applications to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Applications are now open for this program! More info is available here, and the application page here. Make sure to read all the FAQ’s – there’s lots of good info in there! Past participants report great success, and lots of support and even fun along the way.
Applying to the GWSP is open to CSDE affiliates (UW and external) as well as to local post-docs writing K awards with one or more CSDE affiliates on their mentoring team. If accepted, the program is free for applicants in these groups. Other researchers in the Seattle area are also eligible to apply and may be accepted if space is available. The program fee is $7,500 for these applicants. (Current graduate students are not eligible to apply, sorry).
Application review will begin on May 9. Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis until May 23.
Questions? See the info page, or contact Steve Goodreau (goodreau@uw.edu).
The Office of Research invites you to join a group of UW researchers in a peer learning workshop on documenting and communicating the societal impacts of research. We seek interested researchers from any of the three campuses, any department or school, and any position responsible for leading research. Due to substantial interest in this event, this workshop will be held twice. Learn more and apply here.
CSDE Biodemography Lab Director and Research Scientist Tiffany Pan and the CSDE Biodemography Lab contributed to the biomarker data collection for Wave 2 of the Vietnam Health and Aging Study. Pan consulted on the study design, coordinated international biospecimen shipment, conducted in person training of lab staff at Hanoi Medical University, assessed the quality control of lab results, and collaborated on the dissemination of study findings.
For the study, hair cortisol measurement was conducted directly in the CSDE Biodemography Lab at the University of Washington. This technique provides an integrated measure of cortisol levels over time, which may be important for studying stress response. Pan and the biodemography lab also supported biochemical analyses (conventional and multiplex immunoassays) done at Hanoi Medical University by assisting with assay selection, supplies procurement, laboratory training, and data processing.
The multi-year Vietnam Health and Aging Study, led by Kim Korinek (External Affiliate, University of Utah) and Zachary Zimmer (Mount Saint Vincent University), aims to understand the long term effects of war exposure in Vietnam. Tiffany Pan’s biomarker data collection support was conducted in collaboration with CSDE Affiliate Melanie Martin also of the CSDE Biodemography Lab. These biomarker results were presented by Rob Tennyson (CSDE Alumni) at the Gerontological Society of America meeting, and a related manuscript is forthcoming.
To arrange a consulting appointment with Tiffany Pan, or any of CSDE’s scientific support staff, please use the CSDE Science Core Consultation Request form.
When: Friday, May 2, 2025 (12:30-1:30PM)
Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)
1-on-1 meetings: 223 Raitt Hall (sign up here)
We are looking forward to hosting Christy Erving from National Taiwan University on Friday, May 2 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative.
Recently, scholars have attempted to bring voice to Black women’s interpersonal experiences with gendered racism by developing measures that capture their intersectional oppression. Missing from this small, but growing, literature is the nuance of life course dynamics which suggest that Black women’s gendered-racialized discriminatory encounters could differ in content and frequency at different points in their life course. Moreover, the strategies Black women employ to cope with gendered racism are potentially differentiated by their age and birth cohort. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this presentation will examine the various strategies Black women deploy to cope with gendered racism and the psychological health impacts of gendered racism across the life course.
Dr. Christy L. Erving is a sociologist and interdisciplinary health equity scholar. She is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology, a faculty associate of the Population Research Center, and an affiliate of the Center for Aging and Population Sciences as well as the Humanities, Health & Medicine Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Erving’s program of research draws from theories, concepts, and perspectives across various disciplines to clarify and explain distinctions in mental and physical health by race, gender, ethnic, nativity, and socioeconomic status. Her most recent projects investigate the psychosocial determinants of Black women’s health across the life course, spanning early adulthood through later life. Her work integrates sociological theoretical perspectives with insights from other disciplines to ascertain how Black women’s gendered and racialized life experiences both negatively and positively influence psychological and physiological health. She received a B.A. in Sociology and Hispanic Studies at Rice University, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington, with a minor in Social Science Approaches to Health and Healing Systems. Upon completion of her Ph.D., she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York recently announced CSDE Affiliate Nora Kenworthy as a member of the 2025 class of the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program. At a highly polarized time for many health issues, Kenworthy’s project, “Public Health in Polarized Times: Finding “Islands of Solidarity” for Effective Digital Public Health Campaigns in the U.S.” aims to identify, broaden, and deepen “islands of solidarity” around core public health values and messages. Her project will identify where Americans find common ground and purpose when it comes to their health, and work with institutional partners to develop, test, and refine digital messaging strategies to decrease polarization and build common cause in the realm of population health. Read more about the project and Dr. Kenworthy’s work here.