IGSC welcomes abstracts from current graduate students, as well as from young professionals and scholars, who have completed a graduate degree within the past three years.

They are looking for submissions from various fields of study that:(1) Aim to contribute to the sharing and advancement of the multiple knowledges, epistemologies, and ontologies of the Asia-Pacific region; (2) Reimagine theory, practice, and policy for a more just and sustainable shared future.  They also invite artistic expressions that utilize alternative methods for reimagining the world we live in.

Applications are open for the Fall 2021 round of the UW Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant program. Proposals are due Monday, September 27, by 5:00 PM. This program aims to support new directions in research, particularly in disciplines for which external funding opportunities are minimal, for faculty who are junior in rank, or in cases where funding may provide unique opportunities to increase applicants’ competitiveness for subsequent funding. Proposals from all disciplines are welcome, with budgets up to $40,000. Application instructions can be found at the Office of Research website. Acting, temporary (including limited duration), or postdoctoral appointments are ineligible to apply for the RRF program as PI or co-PI, but may be included in the budget for the project team. Please see the updated instructions here. Contact the RRF administrative staff with questions about the program; new applicants should contact Peter Wilsnack, doogieh@uw.edu.

Awards are structured as unrestricted gifts to the principal investigator’s academic institution or organization. There are currently eight priority funding areas listed on their Call for Proposals page, including Data for Social Sustainability: “The Sustainability Science and Innovation (SSI) team at Amazon advances sustainability through mapping, modeling, measuring, and developing insights into the environmental and social impacts of Amazon, both today and into the future. Our north star is to create science-based and data-informed decision tools that have the greatest long-term impact for Amazon and our customers.” Award Amount: Unrestricted (average grant up to $80K).

RWJF is currently seeking letters of interest from community-based organizations and base-building groups working to increase park equity and advance racial justice through local policy and systems change in urban, low-income communities of color across the nation. This effort is part of People, Parks, and Power, a joint initiative with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation led and managed by Prevention Institute.

Learn more about eligibility and selection criteria >

For more information, join the foundation on September 29, 2021 for an applicant webinar to learn what they’re looking for and hear answers to frequently asked questions.

Do you have data that requires archiving or depositing per a funder’s data sharing requirement or are you seeking to obtain data and need to manage or complete a data use agreement?  CSDE’s Administrative Core along with the Science Core is here to help you with those needs. Recently, CSDE’s administrative core assisted Affiliate Melanie Martin with a successful application of a data use agreement through NICHD’s Data and Specimen Hub (DASH) and to access the Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study.

Thanks to support from the Evans School, CSDE’s Administrative Core welcomes a new information and communications RA, Grace Falken. Grace is a first year PhD student at the Evans School with research interests in geospatial analysis, human capital formation, and policy evaluation. She comes to UW from Brown University, where she was a research associate at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. Grace is your ‘go to’ person for all announcements and news items. She will be working with CSDE during the entire academic year to translate your research for news stories, help with press releases, and keep our website full of great content. The sooner we know about your new grants, soon-to-be-published work, new awards and honors, or mentions in the press, all the better!

Don’t hesitate to send an email to csde@uw.edu with your news items and address the note to Grace!