Oscar López Rivera became a leading figure in the struggle for Puerto Rico independence. He was arrested in 1981, sentenced to 55 years in prison, and regarded as the “Nelson Mandela of the Americas.” As the result of a broad human rights campaign, President Obama commuted Oscar’s sentence and he has resumed his role as an organizer. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the In Plain Sight exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery.
2:00-3:00pm – Henry Art Gallery
INRS is seeking to fill a new position for a professor of social sciences specializing in social inequality for the Social ties, population, and life stages track of the Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre’s scientific programming. The successful candidate will work in the multidisciplinary research program of the INRS Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre, located in Montréal. See the link below for a job description.
Deadline for applications: 21 February 2020
“School Desegregation and Metropolitan Development in Seattle and King County in the 1960s and 1970s”
Emily Lieb, Mateo Ricci Department, Seattle University
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The UW Center for Social Science Computation and Research has many workshops to offer this quarter! Here is the listing:
Introduction to Qualitative Research using Atlas.ti
Description: This workshop provides a brief, practical introduction to working in ATLAS.ti, covering basic terminology and functionality of the program. This will include importing text documents, coding and annotating documents, and exploring relationships through analysis and query tools. Time permitting we may also discuss best practices for data management. The course assumes no familiarity with Atlas.ti.
Instructor: Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Place: Savery 121
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Data Manipulation/Data “Wrangling” in R
Description: This workshop will cover some of R’s useful tools for data management and exploration. Most of class will be devoted to learning Hadley Wickham’s excellent “tidyr” and “dplyr” packages. Attendees are assumed to have basic familiarity with R/Rstudio.
Instructor: Charles Lanfear, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Place: Savery 117
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Basic Graphics in R
Description: This course introduces students to ways of producing effect graphs in R. Topics covered will include basic plotting functions (e.g. histograms, scatter plots), production of multi-panel graphs, and various means of exporting graphs to other presentation packages.
Instructor: Yunkang Yang, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Time: 8:30am – 9:30am
Place: Savery 117
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Introduction to R using R Studio
Description: This class will teach you how to get started with R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The course will cover the basic organization of R and RStudio, where to find good help references, and how to begin a basic analysis. This class is ideal for users who have little or no experience with R.
Instructor: Youngwon Kim, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Place: Savery 117
Introduction to Python
Description: This class will provide you the basics of PYTHON for both gathering data from public sources and providing analyses.
Instructor: Mike Babb, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Time: 9:30am – 10:30am
Place: Savery 117
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Introduction to SPSS
Description: This courses introduces the SPSS statistical package including reading in datafiles as well as basic data management and introductory statistical procedures. Additional topics include computing and recoding variables and selecting and filtering cases.
Instructor: Amelia Patrice, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2020
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Place: Savery 121
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Introduction to R using Rstudio
Description: This class will teach you how to get started with R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The course will cover the basic organization of R and RStudio, where to find good help references, and how to begin a basic analysis. This class is ideal for users who have little or no experience with R.
Instructor: Jasmine Jiang, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Thursday, February 20, 2020
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Place: Savery 121
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Career Exploration Strategies: A Workshop for International Graduate Students
Monday, February 24 // 4 – 5 PM // HUB 332, UW Seattle Campus // Google Map (https://goo.gl/maps/jLjbmiB983NFqiW96)
Seating is limited to 30. RSVP is required. Please sign up via Google Form (https://forms.gle/5DJckpn9Q9jnWTzH8).
International graduate students (master’s and doctoral) are invited to join Core Programs for a hands-on workshop to start your career exploration. This tailored workshop will present an overview of career exploration strategies on the topics of networking, informational interviews, LinkedIn profile, and job search as an international graduate student. At the end of the one-hour workshop, you will be able to:
Free food and beverages will be provided. Send questions to Ziyan Bai at baiziyan@uw.edu.
Discover what teaching statements can look like, how to develop one (even if you have never been a TA), review examples, and brainstorm with peers.
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This is to announce the Spring 2020 round of the Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant program. The RRF proposal submission and review process is electronic – all proposals are submitted using SAGE (System to Administer Grants Electronically). Proposals are due Monday, March 2, by 5:00 PM. Awards will be announced by June 15, 2020.
Unlike agency-funded grants, RRF grants are not awarded to supplement or continue existing successful research programs. The purpose of the RRF is to advance new directions in research, particularly:
Proposals must demonstrate a high probability of generating important new creative activities or scholarly understandings, new scholarly materials or resources, significant data or information, or essential instrumentation resources that are likely to significantly advance the reputation of the university, lead to external funding, or lead to developing a new technology. Proposals from all disciplines are welcome, with well-justified budgets up to $40,000.
All proposals will be peer reviewed through one of the three RRF Review Committees. The evaluators are faculty colleagues and therefore will not necessarily be specialists in the applicant’s subfield. Thought should be given, therefore, to crafting the proposal so that a wider audience may understand it. Although technical field-specific information will be expected, the major features of the proposal must also be accessible to non-specialists.
The RRF application instructions, including specific directions for completing the eGC1, are currently available at the Office of Research web site located at:
http://www.washington.edu/research/or/royalty-research-fund-rrf/
As a reminder, Deans, Directors, and Chairs should only approve RRF applications for faculty and professional staff with PI status who are eligible for the program. Faculty with acting, affiliate, visiting, postdoctoral, or temporary (including limited duration) appointments are not eligible. In addition, if a UW faculty member holds an eligible rank but is based at another institution (e.g. Seattle Children’s or Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center), all of his/her extramural grants must be run through the UW in order to be eligible for an RRF award.
Should you elect to apply, please note the following additional details:
Don’t hesitate to contact the RRF administrative staff if you have questions about the program; new applicants should contact Peter Wilsnack, doogieh@uw.edu, 685-9316. Questions about SAGE and the eGC1 should be directed to oris@uw.edu, 685-8335.
CSDE Affiliate Janelle S. Taylor from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto presents her findings from a study of “elder orphans,” older adults who have no living spouse or children, and their experiences as they develop dementia. Taylor explores answers to questions such as: what life trajectories lead people to be in this situation, what caregiving resources do they access, and what turning points trigger changes in caregiving arrangements? The study employs an innovative mixed-methods analysis of existing medical research data and health records data collected by the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) Study, a long running study of incident dementia based at Kaiser Permanente of Washington Health Research Institute.
Click here to schedule a meeting with Janelle S. Taylor.
A key motivation for increasing minimum wages is to induce positive health outcomes for adult workers. However, CSDE Affiliates Heather Hill and Jennifer Otten, along with their co-author James Buszkiewicz, find no overall association between minimum wage increases and health in their recent article published in the American Journal of Epidemiology—“State Minimum Wage Rates and Health in Working-Age Adults using the National Health Interview Survey”—this is an outcome that contrasts with results of previous studies finding positive health benefits from minimum wage policies.
The authors use a rigorous “triple difference” strategy with a sample of more than 131,000 adults to find associations between state minimum wages and adult obesity, body mass index, hypertension, diabetes, fair or poor health, and serious psychological distress. Though Hill, Otten, and Buszkiewicz find no overall association between these health factors and minimum wage, they do find varying health outcomes within different sub-groups of the sample. For example, the authors find that wage increase is associated with higher rates of obesity among people of color.
This new study can help inform policymakers as they consider minimum wage increases. In an article for UW News, Hill stated that “cities and counties are increasing minimum wages with very good intentions, which is to benefit lower-earning workers and reduce inequality, and yet we still need more research evidence on the effects of the minimum wage on health…In particular, we need to understand how it affects different types of workers differently.”
The study was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, you can read the full version here.
Applications are open for the Fall 2020 round of the UW Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant program. This program aims to support new directions in research, particularly in disciplines for which external funding opportunities are minimal, for faculty who are junior in rank, or in cases where funding may provide unique opportunities to increase applicants’ competitiveness for subsequent funding. Proposals from all disciplines are welcome, with budgets up to $40,000. Application instructions can be found at the Office of Research web site: http://www.washington.edu/research/or/royalty-research-fund-rrf/
Proposals must demonstrate a high probability of generating important new creative activities or scholarly understandings, new scholarly materials or resources, significant data or information, or essential instrumentation. Proposals will be peer reviewed through one of three RRF Review Committees: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Basic Biological and Biomedical Sciences; and Physical Sciences and Engineering.
NEW THIS ROUND: The Suggested Reviewers Memo will be attached as a Word document to the eGC1, rather than emailing it to the RRF office. Please see the updated instructions here.
Contact the RRF administrative staff with questions about the program; new applicants should contact Peter Wilsnack, doogieh@uw.edu, 206-685-9316.