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Text Mining Student Specialist

The UW Libraries and eScience Institute are searching for a graduate student starting in fall 2020 to provide text mining assistance for UW students, staff and faculty. This hourly job (8-10h/week) will work in both locations; job duties include providing text mining assistance to UW researchers at various levels, creating guides and tutorials for various techniques and UW resources, and helping assess this new type of service for the Libraries. More information available here.

Postdoctoral Scholar in the Climate Hazards Center

Summary: The Climate Hazards Center (https://chc.ucsb.edu/) at the University of California, Santa Barbara seeks a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher for an exciting project supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US Geological Survey. The project focuses on using remote sensing and machine learning to predict agricultural statistics (crop production, crop yields, prices) in food insecure countries and will directly support the famine early warning efforts of USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). The project will have a strong focus on applications and will leverage cutting edge science to support lives and livelihood saving early warning information.

Qualifications:

Applicants must have completed all requirements for a PhD Degree in Statistics, Geography/Remote Sensing, Agricultural Economics, Agronomy, hydrology, environmental science, Earth Science or a related discipline except the dissertation at the time of application.

Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) SchemeDepartment of Sociology

Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) will offer up to 10 full-time Research Fellowship positions commencing in 2021 (including five fellowships in HASS). Fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis and will be fixed-term for three years.

Applicants are eligible only if their PhD has been awarded on or after 1 March 2017 (or if they have successfully made a case at Expression of Interest stage for an exemption to this rule); or their thesis will be submitted on or before 26 August 2020.

If you have an interest in applying for a Fellowship in the 2021 round through the Department of Sociology, please send the following two files:

1.      An application document containing:

a.      Provisional project title and a brief (400-word) project description.

b.      Name of potential Sponsor.

c.       PhD award date (or thesis submission date if the PhD is not yet awarded).

2.      A CV, including a list of publications. Publications should be listed under the headings: books, book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles and other. Your CV should also briefly detail any career interruptions since the award of your PhD.

Please send applications to Dr Nicholas Harrigan nicholas.harrigan@mq.edu.au by *5pm on Wednesday, 22 April 2020*. To help expedite the process, please name the two files <surname_mqrf_app.docx> and <surname_mqrf_cv>, starting the file name with your surname.

If the Department is able to sponsor your application, you will be notified on* 29 April 2020*. Sponsored applicants will then be invited to work with their sponsors to develop their formal Expressions of Interest which must be submitted to the University by *5 pm* *14 May 2018*.

It is important that there is a good fit between the research interests of applicants and sponsors. For this reason, potential applicants are strongly advised to review the research profiles of potential sponsors from within the Department of Sociology. These can be viewed via this link:

https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/organisations/department-of-sociology/persons/

You can also read more about the major research strengths and themes of our department here:

https://www.mq.edu.au/faculty-of-arts/departments-and-schools/department-of-sociology/our-research/our-research-themes

Apply for a Fulbright in Canada for 2021/2022- Competition Open

Fulbright Awards provide teaching and/or research grants to U.S. faculty and experienced professionals in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. Since 1991, 685 scholars received fulbright awards to conduct research in either the United States or Canada. 2020 marks the 30th Anniversary of Fulbright Canada.

IAPHS – Multiple Events!

Don’t miss the upcoming IAPHS events. Join in on the conversation with the IAPHS community!

April 29, 2020 – 12pm EDT (Webinar)

“Intersections Between Econometric and Epidemiologic Methods for Assessing Impact of Policies and Interventions on Population Health”

The Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) and Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) will hold a joint webinar featuring Drs. Tim Bruckner and Rita Hamad. Members of all organizations are invited to participate. Registration is required.

Click here to learn more.

May 1, 2020 – All Day Event

#PopHealthTacklesCOVID – #BarberTakeover

Join Sharrelle Barber for an IAPHS Twitter Takeover where she will discuss stark racial disparities in COVID-19 risk/mortality from a structural racism lense. Join the conversation! @ia4phs

May 8, 2020 – All Day Event

#PopHealthTacklesCOVID – #ZotaTakeover

Join Ami Zota for an IAPHS Twitter Takeover where she will discuss emerging evidence of links between environmental injustice and COVID-19 risk. Join the conversation! @ia4phs

May 15, 2020 – All Day Event

#PopHealthTacklesCOVID – #DowdTakeover

Join Jennifer Dowd for an IAPHS Twitter Takeover where she will discuss population-science innovations, insights and solutions to COVID-19. Join the conversation! @ia4phs

May 21, 2020 – 12pm EDT (Webinar)

“Balancing health and economic considerations in COVID-19 responses: Dilemmas and opportunities for population health”

Join Drs. Erika Blacksher, Frederick Zimmerman, and Roland Thorpe for a panel discussion on the impacts on both health and economics of the current COVID-19 pandemic. This event will be moderated by Dr. Julie Maslowsky. Registration is now open!

Click here to learn more.

May 22, 2020 – All Day Event

#PopHealthTacklesCOVID – #Schoch-SpanaTakeover

Join Monica Schoch-Spana for an IAPHS Twitter Takeover where she will discuss the history of pandemics, their lasting social/structural effects, and what’s different about COVID-19. Join the conversation! @ia4phs

May 29, 2020 – All Day Event

#PopHealthTacklesCOVID – #ThomeerTakeover

Join Mieke Thomeer for an IAPHS Twitter Takeover where she will discuss mental health consequences of a pandemic. Join the conversation! @ia4phs

NWEA Summer Research Internship Program

The NWEA Summer Research Internship Program introduces outstanding Ph.D. graduate students to the organization. Founded by educators over 40 years ago, NWEA is a global not-for-profit educational services organization known for our flagship interim assessment MAP® Growth™. More than 8,000 partners in U.S. schools, school districts, education agencies, and international schools trust us to offer pre-kindergarten through grade 12 assessments that accurately measure student growth and learning needs, professional development that fosters educators’ ability to accelerate student learning, and research that supports assessment validity and data interpretation. To better inform instruction and maximize every learner’s academic growth, educators currently use NWEA assessments with nearly eight million students.

 

About the Internship…

The Graduate Student Interns provide support to NWEA’s Research Team. The intern selection process is based on matching summer interns and their skills and interests with NWEA research projects. The internship program runs in the summer months only, full-time for a nine-week period. NWEA will compensate $9,000, paid on a weekly schedule for the nine-week period. Compensation is subject to tax. Summer interns have full access to NWEA research facilities, computer hardware and software, and seminar presentations. NWEA reimburses airfare for interns who relocate to Portland for the summer, or airfare for two Portland visits for interns who work remotely. Housing, food, and other personal expenses are the responsibility of the intern.

Congratulations to Zack Almquist on NSF RAPID Award for COVID-19 Research!

One of CSDE’s newest affiliates Zack Almquist and his colleagues were just awarded an NSF RAPID grant titled “Coupled Contagion, Behavior-Change, and the Dynamics of Pro- and Anti-Social Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Almquist with colleagues from Stanford, Simon Fraser University, UC-Merced and UC-Davis will pursue a longitudinal study through probability sample of Americans in three waves, assessing risk-reduction behaviors, compliance with public-health mandates, and hypothesized predictors of response including trust in various institutions, social capital, and sources of news and information.

They will construct mathematical and simulation-based models that jointly track the dynamics of virus transmission and change in behavior, which they will parameterize with data collected through the survey. These models may provide insights for improving public-health interventions, motivating compliance, and stemming the spread of misinformation regarding the epidemic.

Alexes Harris Comments on Criminalization of Poverty for The Appeal’s Political Report

Virginia, among other states, is considering criminal justice reforms amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. One of these reforms concerns the practice of suspending driver’s licenses over court debt. Therefore, CSDE Affiliate Alexes Harris provided her expertise on the effects of such reforms and the criminalization of poverty in a recent article for The Appeal’s Political Report. Harris explains how “if someone is unemployed, or underemployed, unsheltered, or has a family, regularly paying fines and fees, much less paying them off, is extremely difficult.” Further, adding the burden of a driver’s license suspension can exacerbate the consequences of constant debt collection.

The brewing economic crisis from the Covid-19 pandemic is making court debt collection practices especially difficult for individuals with multiple financial obligations. Therefore, Harris called on public authorities to “immediately stop sentencing fines and fees and collecting fines and fees, no interest or added collection fees or late penalties should be added to what they already owe…People should be allowed to use whatever income they have to feed their families and provide shelter.”

Mark Long Examines Long-Term Effects of Affirmative Action Bans in New Study

In a new study titled “Long-Run Changes in Underrepresentation After Affirmative Action Bans in Public Universities” published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA), CSDE Affiliate Mark Long and Nicole Bateman demonstrate the consequences of states’ affirmative action bans on racial compositions in universities. Through multiple analyses, Long and Bateman find that in states that have banned affirmative action, the share of underrepresented minorities among students admitted to and enrolling in public universities has lost ground relative to changing demographic trends among high school graduates. Their results imply that alternative policies were unable to fully replace race-based affirmative action.

As a means to conclude the study and state recommendations for policymakers, Long and Bateman emphasize that “public administrators need to maintain sustained attention to racial and ethnic inequality. They should be mindful of the policy research and interventions that show promise.”