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.

Please note the solicitation NSF 20-604 and associated webinar (September 21, 2020 – 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm) for National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes:  Accelerating Research, Transforming Society, and Growing the American Workforce.  Each award will be up to $20M and the intent is that projects be multidisciplinary.  

 There are at least two themes that call out for SBE community participation:

Theme 1: Human-AI Interaction and Collaboration

Theme 4: Advances in AI and Computer and Network Systems

Many projects in Theme 4 are expected to include use cases and applications which would benefit from the inclusion of social scientists from their inception. The solicitation NSF 20-604 can be found at

https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf20604

 

Register for the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes Program Webinar

Date: September 21, 2020 – 3:30pm to 5:00pm

To be conducted as a Zoom Webinar.  Register here:

https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301175&org=CISE

This webinar will cover the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes solicitation NSF 20-604, submission requirements and program updates.