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Tolnay Honored by SUNY Albany’s Center for Social and Demographic Analysis

CSDE Affiliate and former editor of Demography Stew Tolnay has just learned that the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at SUNY-Albany has established the Stewart E. Tolnay Graduate Student Research Paper Award.  While Stew is UW Professor Emeritus and the S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology, he previously served on the faculty at SUNY-Albany.  Stew is a remarkable scholar with contributions in many areas, but notably in the fields of historical demography and the social demography of race.  Stew is also known for his remarkable mentorship of early career scholars, as well as some of the most timely and thoughtful guidance for senior scholars.  As editor of Demography (2010-13), he offered three years of carefully crafted and thoughtful editorial letters to numerous authors.  Many editors since have indicated Stew’s standard as a high and worthy bar!
The award reads: The Stewart E. Tolnay Outstanding Graduate Student Research Paper Award is being established by the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis (CSDA) at the University at Albany, SUNY in honor of the contributions that Stewart E. Tolnay made during his leadership of CSDA. Dr. Tolnay brought significant national visibility to CSDA by being the principal investigator on the first center grant awarded to CSDA by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development about 25 years ago. This Award will be presented annually for the best graduate student research paper on the interrelationships among social, economic, and demographic variables.
Congratulations Stew!  We’re so lucky you returned to UW and CSDE! We’ve all benefited tremendously from your presence in our midsts!  Well-deserved!

CSDE Computational Demography Working Group – Jon Agnone, Director of People Analytics, Tableau (10/27 @ 2pm)

CSDE’s Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) is hosting Jon Agnone, Director of People Analytics at Tableau for its weekly working group meeting. Jon Agnone is a data scientist who works extensively to extend social research into a more dynamic data and visualization context so as to advance both the science and its applications. You can join this meeting on Wednesday, 10/27 from 2:00-3:00 PM PT using THIS Zoom link.
CDWG meets via zoom and its calendar of events can be found here.  Meetings involve brief presentations and plenty of time for Q&A.

*** Extended *** CSDE Lightning Talk Applications due 10/26!

If you would like to be present at this quarter’s CSDE Lightning Talks and Poster Session please submit an abstract by the end of Tuesday, October 26, 2021.
  • What: This is a wonderful, low-stakes opportunity for anyone who has incorporated demographic themes into their research to practice presentation skills and grow their network.
  • How: Submit a brief abstract and information about yourself and your collaborators on the project. Submit your application HERE. We will select up to 7 participants.
  • Where: the lightning talks will take place via Zoom!
  • When…Dates and deadlines:
    • COB Friday, October 26: deadline to submit an abstract
    • COB Friday, October 29: you will be notified if you have been selected
    • COB Friday, November 19: deadline to email presentation slides to Courtney Allen (ckallen@uw.edu)
    • Friday, December 10: CSDE Lightning Talks and Poster Session from 12:30-1:30pm. Zoom link TBA.

Please email me at ckallen@uw.edu if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing your submissions.