How can we accelerate equitable and just climate action? In this talk we explore this question, considering what kind of system changes are needed to ensure that everyone knows how to rapidly contribute from their sphere of influence to improve our shared future with respect to climate change and intersections issues. We will share about the nature of climate science as a field, the ways in which learning can be organized, and new transformative opportunities in practice that are emerging in the field of climate justice.
- When: Thursday, May 14, 10:30 am
- Presented by: Deb Morrison, Learning Scientist for UW Institute of Science and Math Education and Frank Niepold, Climate Education Coordinator for NOAA
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Applications are open for the 2020-21 cohort of the University of Washington’s Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STSS) graduate certificate program. STSS is an 18 credit interdisciplinary certificate for UW graduate students who have an interest in the relationship between science/technology and society. Students in the program investigate how natural and social knowledge of the world is produced and authorized, how it evolves and is inflected by the contexts of its production and use, and what its normative implications are.
The UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) is hiring a Graduate Research Assistant for Summer Quarter 2020 (with the possibility of extension through the 2020-21 school year). The job requires a diversity, equity, and inclusion orientation and strong quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills.
The American Indian Studies department at Palomar College in California is seeking qualified part-time instructors to teach American Indian studies. Teaching assignment(s) may include any of the curriculum approved courses within the discipline of American Indian studies.
This vacancy is for a Statistician (Demography), GS-1530-13, positions in the Population Division located at the U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland. The Census Bureau is accessible from the Metro Rail Green Line – Suitland Station.
This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Statistician (Demography), GS-1530-13, FPL-13 positions within the Census Bureau in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience.
Richard Guo, PhD candidate
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 – 12:30 pm
Large-scale A/B testing is increasingly prevalent in many industries. We propose an empirical Bayes approach, which assumes that the treatment effects are realized from a “true prior”. This requires inferring the prior from previous experiments. Following Robbins, we estimate a family of marginal densities of empirical effects, indexed by the noise scale. We show that this family is characterized by the heat equation. We develop a spectral MLE based on Fourier series, which can be efficiently computed via convex optimization. We select hyperparameters and compare models using two model selection criteria. Our method is demonstrated on experimentation data from Amazon.com. The same method can also be applied to meta-analysis.
Note: This is joint work with James McQueen (Amazon.com) and Thomas Richardson (UW and Amazon.com).
Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02564
The Aga Khan University is thrilled to introduce a new Virtual Internship Programme (VIP) starting in May 2020.
Job roles are changing to reflect how the world is becoming more ‘global,’ and virtual internships are the perfect way to develop a global mind-set and required skills at this time. This innovative new model of internships will connect students around the world, thus helping them to achieve their educational potential through collaborative learning.
A postdoctoral position is available within the Team 1 ‘Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Modelling’ of the Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health (IPLESP) part of INSERM. The candidate is expected to work within the framework of the project NoCOV funded by the ANR Flash COVID-19 with the aim of analyzing the spreading of the epidemic in the French population.
Join the National Center for Health Statistics in this timely presentation on the data files and accompanying reports recently released from the 2017-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). This webinar, open to the public, will review the data files released and recent data briefs on obesity, hepatitis B, hypertension, and cholesterol. Researchers, students, policymakers, and health programmers will learn about NHANES, the latest data and reports, and what to expect in the future.
This week, the UW’s Population Health Initiative announced its COVID-19 awards. Congratulations to all awardees! Notably, of the 21 awards made at least seven were awarded to teams including CSDE affiliates and scientific staff! Here we share a few highlights. Jen Otten and her colleagues will examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food systems, food security, and food access in WA. Arthur Acolin, Kyle Crowder, and Rebecca Walter with their team will assess prevailing impacts of COVID-19 on rental housing markets across metropolitan areas and neighborhoods. Carmen Gonzalez and her team will find codeveloping culturally relevant messages for farmworker safety and health in the COVID-19 pandemic. India Ornelas and her team will assess and address the impact of COVID-19 outbreak among Latino immigrants in King County. Christine Leibbrand (CSDE Research Scientist) joins Jonathan Kantner on a project to examine how to mitigate the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. Rachel Heath and Tyler McCormick will be measuring and assessing occupational health and safety in low-income countries during COVID-19. Lastly, Stephen Mooney and team will find how using machine learning on the UW Medicine Electronic Health Record can optimize the COVID-19 response.