CSDE Training Core PI Zack Almquist has received an Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project entitled, “CAREER: Measuring and Modeling the Multi-Modal Networks and Demographics of People Experiencing Homelessness”. The CAREER award is one of the most prestigious awards given by the NSF and recognizes early-career faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar through outstanding research, excellent teaching, and the integration of education and research. The five-year award will support Almquist’s research into integrating online and offline sources, along with recent developments in survey sampling and estimation (e.g., respondent-driven sampling or network scale-up methods) in order to obtain population counts, demographic rates, social network information, and information on people’s experience while homeless.
Communicating During Chaos: New Research from Petrescu-Prahova and Colleagues Explores Communication Records from the World Trade Center Disaster
New research is now available in pre-print on arXiv from CSDE Affiliate Miruna Petrescu-Prahova and several co-authors from UC Irvine. The paper uses communication records from 17 organizational units to examine the mechanisms driving communication dynamics, with an emphasis on the emergence of coordinating roles. The authors employ relational event models (REMs) to identify the mechanisms shaping communications in each unit, finding a consistent pattern of behavior across units with very different characteristics.
New Paper from Bleil & Colleagues Assesses the Connection Between Excess Weight, Activity Levels, and Physical Performance Among Children
CSDE Affiliate Maria Bleil and a number of co-authors recently published research in the American Journal of Human Biology exploring the relationship between adiposity (excess fatty tissue), activity levels, and physical performance in an assigned task amongst children. The authors find that, among children with excess weight, physical performance declines with increasing levels of total and central adiposity.
Goldhaber Cited in the 2022 Economic Report of the President
The recently published Economic Report of the President cites CSDE Affiliate Dan Goldhaber for two co-authored works. First, the report cites an American Economic Journal article Goldhaber co-authored with Cecilia Elena Rouse, Jane Hannaway, and David Figlio which explores the impact of school accountability policies on instruction. The second feature is of an analysis published in the 74 with co-authors Thomas Kane and Andrew McEachin on the projected long-term costs of Pandemic Learning Loss.
Computational Demography Working Group Meeting This Wednesday (5/4)!
The next CSDE Computational Demography Working Group meeting will be Wednesday, May 4th. CDWG will be hosting CSDE Affiliate and UW Associate Professor of Geography Bo Zhao. Dr. Zhao will be talking about his recent research on a humanistic GIS framework.
Boost Your Research Skills – Attend One or More of CSDE’s Spring Quarter Workshops
We’re excited to offer the following workshops this quarter:
- Agent Based Modeling in R
- Instructor: Deven Hamilton
- When: Thursday, May 5, 10am-12pm
- Where: Remote on Zoom
- Website: https://csde.washington.edu/workshop/r-agent-based-modeling/
- Data Storage & Access with the UWDC
- Instructor: Phil Hurvitz
- When: Wednesday, May 18, 10am-11:30am
- Website: https://csde.washington.edu/workshop/data-storage-usage-with-the-uwdc/
- Observational Ethnographic Research: Online and Offline
- Instructor: Jessica Beyer
- When: Thursday, June 2, 12:00pm-2:00pm
- Website: https://csde.washington.edu/workshop/observational-ethnographic-research-online-and-offline/
Mark Your Calendars: Final Seminar in the Center for Health Innovation & Policy Science Series on Homelessness
Join the UW Center for Health Innovation & Policy Science and CSDE for the fourth and final seminar in our series on homelessness. On May 18th Isaac Rivera, Sarah Elwood, and Victoria Lawson (UW Department of Geography) will present a talk titled “Portraits for Change: Homelessness and Refusal Politics.” This will be and hybrid event hosted in-person at the Allen Auditorium and available via Zoom. You can find recordings of first and second seminars in this series on the CHIPS website.
New Population Health Initiative Funding Opportunity
The Population Health Initiative, in partnership with Novo Nordisk and the University of Washington’s Engineering Innovation in Health program, is launching a pilot grant program to catalyze innovative projects that seek to develop solutions for people experiencing chronic disease(s). This program is intended to support UW researchers in testing scalable ideas that seek to better understanding at the intersections of biology, data, digital tools, behavior and financial implications. Applications are due May 31, 2022.
CSDE Early Career Grant Working Group – consider joining!
Are you an early-career (pre-promotion) faculty member who is thinking about writing a grant? Perhaps you’re just beginning to ponder the idea but don’t know where to start – or maybe you’re already experienced and still need some information, ideas, or moral support. If so, then you should join CSDE’s Early Career Grant Working Group! We meet monthly in a hybrid (in-person in Raitt Hall and on Zoom) on third Thursdays from 1:30-2:30. Please email Steve Goodreau (goodreau@uw.edu) to be added to the mailing list and event invitation.Please note: membership is focused on CSDE affiliates (any UW campus or external) who are in any kind of faculty position prior to their first major promotion (to associate or equivalent). If you have a question about your eligibility, please email Steve Goodreau (goodreau@uw.edu).