Future Review: International Journal of College and Career Success is calling for articles related to transitions to post-secondary education and to the world of work. I am inviting colleagues to submit their work to our second issue which we plan to publish this Fall 2019.
You can visit the journal website (www.futurereview.org) to read the full aim and scope of the publication. However, I can share briefly that the purpose of this journal is to disseminate knowledge and novel ideas related to post-secondary transitions. This journal is appropriate for researchers and professionals interested in the academic, intrapersonal, and social factors that affect a successful transition from high school to post-secondary school or employment.
This panel is being convened by former CSDE Fellow Michelle O’Brien and is chaired by CSDE Affiliate Nathalie Williams!
The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) will host the 11th annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology on Nov. 16-17, 2019, at the University of Tennessee Conference Center in Knoxville, TN.
The conference provides opportunities for undergraduates to present their research at the interface of biology and mathematics. Student talks and posters will be featured as well as a plenary speaker, a panel on career opportunities, a graduate school showcase, and other networking opportunities. Faculty and students are invited to attend, as well as high school teachers.
A limited amount of support is available to cover the cost of registration, lodging and travel – deadline is September 25 to request funding. Conference registration deadline is October 16.
If you have or plan to request funding, do not register for the conference until you have been contacted by NIMBioS about the status of your funding request. For more information, go to http://www.nimbios.org/education/undergrad_conf2019
CSDE is thrilled to announce that Dr. Christine Leibbrand will be joining CSDE’s Scientific Staff as a newly minted PhD and Acting Assistant Professor of Sociology. Dr. Leibbrand will be a part-time member of CSDE’s Scientific Staff, providing statistical demography consultations, helping to organize our regularly offered, scientific and technical workshops, and collaborating, when possible, on CSDE affiliate research grants. Dr. Leibbrand’s office will be in 218 Raitt Hall.
Dr. Leibbrand is an outstanding early career scientist with expertise in a number of social science and population science domains. She is a CSDE Fellow Alumna and recently received the Dean’s Medal for Outstanding Graduate Student in the Social Sciences. Her dissertation examined whether the economic returns to migration and the economic well-being of migrants and non-migrants have changed within the context of declining internal U.S. migration rates over the past few decades. Dr. Leibbrand has also recently published or currently has articles in press at the American Journal of Sociology, Social Science Research, Social Science History, and The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
The CSDE logo, designed by Marvin Oliver, features a male and female salmon. The pairing signifies fertility, migration, and mortality—three core subjects of demography. CSDE recently heard from Pete Guest, formed CSDE Director, about the origins of our intricate logo, here’s what we learned:
“In the mid-1990s, I was the interim director of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington. I was inspired to find a young Native American artist, Marvin Oliver, to make a logo for us. Oliver was a student of Bill Holm, perhaps the foremost “native” artist in Canada.
The logo was mainly done by Marvin (at the time, largely unknown), but I made some contributions. What it shows is the “cycle of life” through the salmon. The salmon are divided by gender, and the red salmon egg has been implanted by the male into the female. The circle represents the cycle of life, from birth to death, but may also be interpreted as showing the migration cycle of the salmon.”
Avery (Pete) Guest
Professor Emeritus
Department of Sociology
University of Washington
The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) or in STEM education. The GRFP provides three years of support for the graduate education of individuals who have demonstrated their potential for significant research achievements in STEM or STEM education. NSF especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, persons with disabilities, veterans, and undergraduate seniors to apply.
The Environmental Justice Fund is a grant opportunity for community-led projects that improve environmental conditions, respond to impacts of climate change and get us closer to achieving environmental justice. Created in 2017, the Fund is overseen by the Environmental Justice Committee, people with deep community roots working closely with communities on environmental justice issues.
Environmental hazards and climate change affect everyone, but communities of color, immigrants, refugees and Native people experience more significant harms because of where they live and work. We know that the most effective environmental and climate solutions come from the community itself. This Fund provides grants for projects where community members are in positions of leadership, where their lived experience is honored, where their knowledge influences the work, and where they meaningfully participate in project design and implementation.
There is $200,000 available to fund projects in 2019 and the application deadline is Monday, September 16, 4 pm. If you have any questions or need assistance, email ejfrfp@gmail.com
Everywhere you walk, you are on Indigenous land. Whether spoken in reverence or shouted in protest, whether considering the past, present, or future, even when dislocated from homelands, the central issue for Indigenous people will always be the land and sovereignty. Indigenous territories describe the ancestral and contemporary connections of Indigenous peoples to a geographical area defined by kinship ties, occupation, seasonal travel routes, trade networks, resources, spiritual beliefs, and cultural and linguistic connections to place. Politically, the “land question” between First Peoples and governments is rooted in competing ideas of authority and clashing conceptions of identity and ownership.
The artists in this exhibition use traditional and contemporary visual expressions that acknowledge the interconnectedness of humans and the land and the critical need to protect the earth against degradation. Traditional art forms like basketry, wood carving, and weaving are storehouses of memory, marking ancestral origins and movements across the landscape. New forms of storytelling in painting, printmaking, and video create new spaces for justice and understanding.
For images and a location map of public artworks in King County by Coast Salish artists, please visit, Visible on Ancestral Lands, a living archive compiled by Dr. Crisca Bierwert, Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington.
The University of Washington has recently developed the Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program to conduct research on causes of firearm injuries, and the effectiveness of laws and policies in reducing firearm related injuries and deaths. We are seeking to hire a research scientist to become part of this program and develop, lead and conduct research studies on firearm injuries. The job announcement is below.
The University of St Andrews is seeking to appoint three Post-Doctoral Research Fellows to work on a project on Understanding Life Trajectories of Immigrants and Their Descendants in Europe and Projecting Future Trends (MigrantLife) funded by the European Research Council (ERC). The five-year project is led by Prof. Hill Kulu and it will investigate how employment, housing and family trajectories evolve and interact in the lives of immigrants and their descendants in the UK, France, Germany and Sweden; and how factors related to a societal context, an early life context and critical transitions shape their life histories. The study will project their future life trajectories using innovative computer simulation techniques, considering the main life domains and diversity between and within immigrant groups.
The posts are available from October 2019 for three years with the possibility of extension for one or two years. Further details can be found below.
Informal enquiries can be directed to: Professor Hill Kulu (Hill.Kulu@standrews.ac.uk).