Pacific Sociological Association: The Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award recognizes a graduate student or students for a paper of high professional quality. This award includes a $200 honorarium and two nights of lodging at the conference hotel. To be eligible a paper must be: 1) worthy of special recognition for outstanding scholarship; 2) written by a graduate student or students in the Pacific region; 3) written or substantially revised in the last year; 4) presented at the upcoming PSA annual conference; and 5) in article format but not yet published. Nominations for the award must include a copy of the paper, an abstract, and a minimum of one letter of support. The deadline for nominations is February 1. Send nominations materials to awards@pacificsoc.org.

The NLCHDD, funded by the National Institute on Aging, invites researchers to submit pilot proposals that have potential to better understand how US adult health and mortality outcomes are shaped by meso-level contexts. By meso-level, we mean the county, metro area, city, carceral apparatus, commuting zone, housing or labor market, hospital catchment area, and other contextual levels of influence that are not state-level but are also broader than local contexts such as neighborhoods. For more information about the NLCHDD, its pilot proposal program, and submission instructions, see: https://gero.usc.edu/nlchdd/pilot-projects/

Due Date: Monday, October 12, 2020 @ 5:00pm.