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PAA Webinar: Immigration’s Role in Workforce Sustainability (01/30/26)

Join this webinar on Friday, January 30, at 12:00pm ET, with an expert panel of scientists providing a demographic overview of the U.S. immigrant population. The panel will discuss how immigrants contribute to the U.S. workforce and the solvency of social insurance programs, including Medicare and Social Security. Participants will also learn how some recent policy changes are impacting specific industries, including the technology and agricultural sectors. Read more and register.

Panelists include:

  • Matthew Hall, Cornell University
  • Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, University of California-Merced
  • Phillip Connor, Princeton University
  • Chloe East, University of Colorado-Boulder
  • Irma Elo, PAA Past President, University of Pennsylvania

IPUMS 2026 Data Intensive Research Conference – Minneapolis, MN (Apply by 01/30/26)

Abstract submissions are now open for the 2026 Data-Intensive Research Conference. The 2026 conference theme is Novel Data Linkages and Innovative Life Course Research. Enriching population data through data linkage creates novel data sources that can shed light on life course processes. Linking across time allows for the examination of transitions and trajectories and linking to contextual information situates the experiences of individuals and populations in their environments. Review the call for proposals and submit an abstract.

Applications for the UW Global Innovation Fund (GIF) Now Open (01/31/26)

Applications for the UW Global Innovation Fund (GIF) are now open! The deadline for all submissions is Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 11:59pm. This funding opportunity empowers UW faculty and researchers to drive interdisciplinary projects and innovative approaches to global learning. GIF supports initiatives that cross academic boundaries and foster meaningful global engagement. Funding is available in two key areas, Research and Global Learning:
We have scheduled four virtual office hours for questions. For additional information regarding the GIF, please visit our website or email uwgif@uw.edu.

Request for Proposals: Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood (01/31/26)

Organization: Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood
Award amount: Undisclosed award amount, but past amounts have averaged around $50,000.
Sponsor deadline: 01/31/2026
Description:  The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood is an incubator of promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. Welfare is broadly defined to include physical and mental health, safety, nutrition, education, play, familial support, acculturation, societal integration and childcare.
Welfare is broadly defined to support, acculturation, societal integration and childcare. Grants are only made if a successful project outcome will likely be of significant interest to other professionals, within the grantee’s field of endeavor, and would have a direct benefit and potential national application.
The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale. Because of the Foundation’s limited funding capability, it seeks to maximize a grant’s potential impact.
The foundation invites letters of intent in the following categories:
  • Early Childhood Welfare: According to the foundation, children can only reach their full potential when all intellectual, emotional, and physical aspects of their development are optimally supported. Providing a safe and nurturing environment is essential, as is imparting social living skills in a culturally diverse world. The foundation supports projects that aim to perfect child-rearing practices and identify models that can provide creative, caring environments in which all young children thrive.
  • Early Childhood Education and Play: Research shows that children need to be stimulated and nurtured early to succeed in school, work, and life. That preparation relates to every aspect of a child’s development and everywhere a child learns—at home, in childcare settings, and in preschool. The foundation aims to improve the quality of early childhood teaching by developing innovative curricula and research-based pedagogical standards and designing imaginative play materials and learning environments.
  • Parenting Education: The foundation supports programs that teach parents about developmental psychology, cultural child-rearing differences, pedagogy, health issues, prenatal care and diet, and programs that provide cognitive and emotional support to parents.
Eligibility:
Faculty & PIs

Korver-Glenn Examines Narrative and Performative Aspects of Immigrant and Native-born Residents’ Neighborhood Meaning-making

In a recent article in Identities, CSDE External Affiliate Elizabeth Korver-Glenn (University of North Carolina) examined the narrative and performative aspects of immigrant and native-born residents’ neighborhood meaning-making. The research team drew from 37 in-depth interviews to understand how immigrant and native-born Swedish people perceive immigrant neighborhoods in two Swedish cities. Most respondents perceived immigrant neighborhoods as stigmatized, and most of these respondents engaged in discursive destigmatization of immigrant neighborhoods. For some respondents, discursive destigmatization extended to their actions–they were current residents who preferred to continue living in their neighborhoods. For others–all of whom were non-residents of immigrant neighborhoods–discursive destigmatization remained surface-level: they reported avoiding or preferring not to live in these areas. Finally, some respondents narratively reinscribed neighborhood stigma and expressed a desire to leave or avoid these areas. The results highlight the urgency of ameliorating material inequalities between neighborhoods rather than assuming a goal of integration.

Hess Examines Effects of Heat on Pregnant Women’s Use of Health Services in Burkina Faso

CSDE Affiliate Jeremy Hess (Global Health, Emergency Medicine, EOHS) published a study in Public Health that examined the effects of heat on pregnant women’s use of health services, the health facility working environment and the impact of heat on the quality of care in Burkina Faso. Hess and co-authors conducted individual interviews and focus group discussions (FGD) with pregnant women, postpartum women, health providers and community leaders, women of reproductive age, as well as relatives and male spouses of women who recently had given birth.  Extreme heat reduced attendance and use of health services by pregnant and postpartum women. The women’s choice of delivery center depended on the quality of the health centers, notably whether they were equipped with cooling systems. All stakeholders agreed that extreme heat affected the relationship between caregivers and patients, especially facilities with inadequate cooling infrastructures or cramped spaces.