The Data Integrity Biographic/Demographic Specialist will perform a variety of tasks involving biographic and demographic data in the Advancement database as well as prepare statistical data, analyze and modify constituent records. Will be the resident expert and serve as the primary Biographic/Demographic data integrity system resource ensuring the accuracy, consistency and validity of data over its lifecycle. In addition, will also serve as a backup for the Data Integrity Gift Specialists. Provide support for department administrative functions as needed.

The Pardee RAND Graduate School is looking for graduates who are passionate about implementing public policy education that would highlight the diversity of voices in their home institutions, for a five-day policy implementation training conference. Selected participants will gain the knowledge/skills required to make change in their communities and to inspire their students to consider careers and advance study in public policy.

UC Berkeley’s BIMI is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 3rd annual Summer Institute in Migration Research Methods (SIMRM). The 10-day workshop will train early-career researchers and beginning faculty in: (1) conceptualizing, measuring and imputing legal status in migration studies; (2) studying immigration through social media and computational analysis; and (3) current frontiers in research on migration and health. The institute will also include sessions on research ethics and professionalization. Tuition fees, airfare, accommodation and meals will be covered thanks to the generous funding from the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Russell Sage Foundation.

With the partisan gridlock that has characterized Washington politics for at least the past two decades, can and should states lead the way on immigration by utilizing a state-based visa system? Join the Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh for a panel discussion with Representative Curtis and Governor Herbert for a policy deep dive on how state-based visas can reform our nation’s broken immigration system

| February 7, 2020| 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM EST| Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington D.C. |Register Here |Webcast

The Summer Course on Refugees and Forced Migration is an internationally acclaimed, non-credit course for academic and field-based practitioners working in the area of forced migration. It serves as a hub for researchers, students, practitioners, service providers, and policymakers to share information and ideas. Through attending lectures and related small group sessions, course participants develop a deepened understanding of the political, economic, social and cultural contexts of forced migration, and the major state and non-state institutions involved in refugee protection and advocacy.

| Deadline: February 1, 2020| Program: May 4-8, 2020 |York University| More Information |

The Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley is looking for a part-time researcher for their new Tech Equity Project. This project will carry out a landscape scan on how advanced technologies in academic institutions, advocacy agendas in tech justice, and the private sector initiatives in the tech industry address questions of ethics and equity within their scopes. The researcher will conduct literature reviews, write research briefs, and create support logistics for convenings.

| Deadline: Until Filled| More Information |

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.