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Bourassa Quoted in Tacoma News Tribune on Real Estate Trends

The Northwest Multiple Listing Service, which tracks real estate trends in 26 of the 39 Washington counties, recently released data that states that there are more homes on the market this month than there were a year ago. While new listings are up, interest rates may come down. On August 1st, the rates were 6.73%, which is the lowest since February, but that interest rate is still a significant difference from the average of 3.94% that it was five years ago. However, this may change in the future. CSDE Affiliate Steven Bourassa, Director of the Washington Center for Real Estate Research at UW, says that the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank will lower rates next month. Visit the Tacoma News Tribune article to learn more about real estate trends in Washington State.

*New* Webinar: Revision of NSF Award Terms and Conditions Implementing Revised 2 CFR (9/12/24)

The NSF Award Terms and Conditions have been updated to implement the revised 2 CFR published in the Federal Register on April 22, 2024, by the Office of Management and Budget.  As part of its implementation strategy, NSF has archived the Research Terms and Conditions (RTC), and the NSF Agency Specific Requirements. Unless otherwise specified, the Grant General Conditions (GC-1) apply to all recipients of NSF grant awards, including Institutions of Higher Education, non-profit, non-academic organizations, for-profit organizations (other than Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer recipients), State and local governments, and Tribal Nations.

Join the NSF Policy Office in the Division of Institution and Award Support (DIAS) on September 12 at 2:00 PM EST for a webinar which will provide the framework for these revisions and how they affect NSF proposals and awards.  Webinar registration is now available.

Opportunity: Pilot Funding from NYU Collaborative Center in Children’s Environmental Health Research and Translation (LOIs Due 9/12/24)

The NYU Collaborative Center in Children’s Environmental Health Research and Translation (CEHRT) announced their fourth Pilot Project Request for Applications.

The goal of the Center is to translate existing knowledge to action on issues that affect children’s health. The themes of the Center are endocrine disruption and climate change, although we welcome proposals from other areas as well. The intent of the Center is to support the broader children’s environmental health (CEH) community — applications from NYU and outside institutions are encouraged. The Center will award developmental and translational grants, the former being smaller in size and extendable, and the latter focused on the translation of knowledge to action.

Application Process:

  1. Applicants submit a 1-page Letter of Intent (LOI) by Thursday, September 12th, 2024.
  2. Applicants selected to proceed into the next stage will be notified of this decision by Friday, September 20th, 2024.
  3. Applicants will be invited to submit a 3-page proposal due Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024 containing additional information to that already included in the LOI

Request for Applications PDF: CEHRT Cycle 4 RFA (2)

Link to Apply: CEHRT 2025 Letter of Interest Form (nyumc.org)

Swanson Publishes Research Article in Asian Population Studies on Infant Mortality in the Philippines

CSDE Affiliate David Swanson (UC Riverside) recently published the research article, “Estimating the stochastic uncertainty underlying sample-based estimates of infant mortality in the Philippines: a first-time application to a country in the Southeast Asia/Pacific Basin region” in Asian Population Studies. When making health policy decisions, infant mortality is a very important population health statistic that is taken into account, but unfortunately this data is not available for all populations. A newly-developed method was “presented for accounting for the stochastic uncertainty found in infant mortality rates (IMRs) estimated from sample surveys and for the first time applied to a country in the Southeast Asian/Pacific Basin area, the Philippines.  The method is founded on the fact that there are two sources of variation in sample-based estimates of IMRs:  (1) sample size; and (2) variation of infant deaths. The approach is aimed at taking into account stochastic uncertainty while preserving the information concerning the uncertainty due to sampling. In applying the method to the Philippines, the sample-based IMR estimates appear to perform well in terms of accounting for stochastic uncertainty.” To learn more about this research, visit the link to read the rest of Dr. Swanson’s article.

Opportunity for Funding: Transformative Research in the Education Sciences Grants (9/12/24)

Through the Transformative Research program, IES seeks to support innovative research that has the potential to make dramatic advances towards solving seemingly intractable problems and challenges in the education field and/or to accelerate the pace of conducting education research to facilitate major breakthroughs. For FY2025, the Transformative Research in the Education Sciences Grants program will focus on accelerating learning and reducing persistent education inequities by leveraging evidence-based principles from the learning sciences coupled with advanced technology to create high-reward, scalable technology solutions. Applications are due September 12, 2024. For more information about this research opportunity and the application process, visit the IES Funding Opportunities web page. IES will provide virtual office hours for this new competition.  Please see the Virtual Technical Assistance web page for additional details.

Zhao Presenting at the AI for Washington State Conference

CSDE Affiliate Dr. Bo Zhao has been invited to present at the AI for Washington State conference, hosted by the Washington State Academy of Sciences. He will be joining a session alongside Mike Goodchild, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Mari Ostendorf, Vice Provost at the University of Washington, to discuss how to build ‘responsible AI.’ The conference will feature several leading figures in AI from Washington State, including Microsoft Chief Scientist Eric Horvitz, State Senator Matt Boehnke, and key research leaders from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. This event will take place on September 25 at The Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA. More information can be found here: https://washacad.org/symposium/