The Charles and Lousie Travers Department of Political Science will be hosting Angela Gutierrez for their RWAP Colloquium. She will be speaking about her new paper, see title above, which examines the rise of a politicized Latino identity as measured by group consciousness in California during the 1990s. The finding suggests that perceived discrimination may activate group consciousness and have long-lasting effects in promoting group identity long after feelings of threat have subsided.

| January 29, 2020 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM | UC Berkeley 119 Moses Hall |More Information| Read their Paper

Are you a current UW Student interested in High Performance Research Computing? Not only, but *especially* if you are using R, you should consider joining the UW Research Computing Club. There are cloud credits and the UW Hyak supercomputer available to you.  Please see this site for more information and contact:  https://depts.washington.edu/uwrcc/

The Student Technology fee pays for a great many Student nodes in the Hyak cluster – please use them!

The UWRCC is having its first meeting on 1/28/2020

In this workshop, there will be:

• Introductions and discussion of importance of mentoring, mentoring team structures, resources from UCSF CTSI mentoring program.
• Introduction to Goleman’s leadership styles and how they apply to mentoring.
• Role play of leadership styles with problem mentee.

Mentoring consultation clinic (2 parallel clinics, 5-7 mentors each).

Register by 2/14!

Speaker: Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH

Monica Gandhi is a Professor of Medicine,  Associate Chief in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine, and Director of the CFAR at UCSF.  Research efforts have focused on HIV/AIDS in U.S. women and investigating objective methods to measure antiretroviral adherence and exposure in HIV treatment and prevention settings.  Recent work has expanded to measuring adherence to anti-TB drugs in the context of latent and active TB infection. Dr. Gandhi also has an interest in HIV education and mentorship.

Departmental nominations for the Alvord Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities has started. This endowed fellowship was established through the generous gift of Ellsworth and Nancy Alvord and matched by State funds. The terms of the Alvord Endowment specify that selection must be based on academic merit, with secondary consideration of financial need, from among graduate student in any humanities discipline*.

Every effort will be made to assure diversity among the disciplines represented by the recipients, and priority will be given to those nominees whose scholarly and research interests cross disciplinary lines. The competition is open to any student who has completed the M. A. degree, or equivalent in programs with no required degree preceding the Ph.D.

This year we will be able to award one $25,000 fellowship (includes GSA benefits) for 2020-21, effective September 16, 2020 – June 15, 2021. In addition, the Graduate School has again generously committed to providing a tuition waiver for the Alvord Fellow.  See the attached call for proposal document for more details.

Each department is limited to ONE nomination. A nomination packet must include:

1. A completed nomination form (attached and available at CAS Administrative Gateway)
2. A letter of nomination from the department chair or dissertation chair
3. An additional faculty letter of recommendation
4. The candidate’s brief (no more than 1,000 words) statement describing their research project(s) and how this research will contribute to their respective field or fields
5. Curriculum Vitae
6. Current transcript (need not be sealed, copy generated from MyUW is fine)

Please email your nomination as a single pdf file to Barbara Mack, barbmack@uw.edu by 8:00 AM on March 16, 2020. We hope to announce the results by May, after review by a faculty committee.

The National Center for Health Statistics announces Call for Abstracts for an Opioid Survey Question Evaluation Symposium in September 2020

The National Center for Health Statistics will host a symposium in Washington, DC in September 2020 focused on empirical evaluation of opioid-use related survey questions.  In preparation for this meeting, NCHS seeks input from both federal and non-federal partners to better understand what measures are being used and how those measures have been evaluated for opioid-use related survey questions.

Fully addressing the opioid crisis requires various types of high-quality data, including survey data on opioid use, misuse, disorder and prescription practices. Yet, an inventory of opioid-related questions from various state and federal surveys reveals inconsistent questions, raising concern for construct validity and the comparability of resulting estimates.

In an effort to advance the quality of opioid survey data, the National Center for Health Statistics will bring together subject matter experts and survey methodologists, including federal and non-federal partners, to host a symposium and share information on opioid use-related measures.

Children in Immigration Detention: Health and Human Rights Wednesday, January 29, 2020 7:00 – 8:30 pm UW Seattle campus, Thomson Hall, Room 101 (Map: uw.edu/maps/?tho)Dr. Scott Allen is a medical consultant for the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Department of Homeland Security monitoring medical care in immigration detention facilities. He became a government whistleblower in 2018 when, with the assistance of Government Accountability Project, he, along with his colleague Dr. Pamela McPherson, raised the alarm to the DHS Inspector General and Congress the risk of grave, imminent harm to children caused by the Trump administration’s expanded use of family detention under its “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. After witnessing substandard and dangerously lax medical care at the ICE facilities they were charged with inspecting, Drs. Allen and MacPherson stated that they were ethically compelled to “speak out against injustice where authority discriminates against vulnerable populations… To remain silent would mean complicity.” When their warnings failed to reverse detention practices, they escalated their concerns to the press, appearing on 60 Minutes, NPR, CNN, and in the Op-Ed section of the Washington Post. For those efforts, Dr. Allen was co-recipient of the 2019 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and the 2019 Physicians for Human Rights Award. Prof. Angelina Godoy is the Helen H. Jackson Endowed Chair in Human Rights and founding Director of the UW Center for Human Rights. Prof. Godoy teaches courses in the Department of Law, Societies & Justice and the Jackson School of International Studies. She is the author of two books published by Stanford University Press. The first, Popular Injustice: Violence, Community, and Law in Latin America (2006), examines the phenomena of vigilante justice in the wake of contemporary crime waves, especially in Guatemala. More recently, she authored Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era (2013), a comparative study of the politics around health and trade in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala. She has also written numerous articles on these and other topics for both scholarly and general audiences. Her work at the Center for Human Rights has been featured in many outlets such as the Seattle Times, The New York Review of Books, CNN with Anderson Cooper, and KUOW, to name a few. Professor Godoy is also the proud recipient of the University of Washington’s 2014 Outstanding Public Service Award. This event is free and open to the public. Questions? Contact uwchr@uw.edu or 206-685-3435.

IIASA offers a range of postdoc opportunities for early career researchers. These include fully funded research positions of up to two years to study topics related to the IIASA research agenda. Information on call openings and application deadlines can be found in the link below.

The Center for Scientific Review (CSR) is the gateway for NIH grant applications and their review for scientific merit. We organize the peer review groups or study sections that evaluate the majority (75%) of the research grant applications sent to NIH. We also receive all grant applications for NIH, as well as for some other components of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

The Center for Scientific Review (CSR) is the home to a community of over 240 diverse and accomplished scientists who share a deep commitment to science and health and making sure NIH grant applications are fairly and expertly reviewed.  These Scientific Review Officers (SROs) play pivotal roles in ensuring that the NIH peer review process identifies the most promising research grant applications, because the most important factor in determining whether an NIH grant application is funded by NIH is how well it fares in peer review. https://public.csr.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2017-10/SROJobsFlyer.pdf.

SROs help ensure the vitality of NIH peer review by using their scientific expertise and communication and interpersonal skills to—

• Analyze the scientific content of grant applications,
• Identify the scientists invited to serve on study sections and assign the applications each member will review,
• Organize and run peer-review meetings to assess grant applications,
• Provide applicants with a succinct written summary statement explaining how the review committee viewed the applications.

CSR is actively seeking scientists who combine a broad and current understanding of research in biomedical and behavioral sciences. We are particularly interested in the following specific expertise: Epidemiology, population research, demography, social science, health services research, health informatics, and related fields. Successful candidates will be respected, accomplished scientists with maturity, integrity and outstanding communication skills. Requirements include an M.D. or Ph.D. in the biomedical or behavioral sciences (or equivalent training and experience); American citizenship; and a record of independent research accomplishments, documented by an outstanding publication record and administrative background.

The Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health invites you to apply for a professional track currently available at CSR. The vacancy announcements can be found through the NIH Recruitment website (www.jobs.nih.gov/globalrecruitment).  If interested, please contact Valerie Durrant at durrantv@csr.nih.gov.

Here are the link to the open opportunities which include both DE and MP:

• Health Scientist Administrator (Program Officer and Scientific Review Officer) (DE)
• Health Scientist Administrator (Program Officer and Scientific Review Officer) (MP)
• Social and Behavioral Scientist Administrator (DE)
• Social and Behavioral Scientist Administrator (MP)