Dear community members, researchers, and service providers who have shared interests in addressing homelessness in the University District:
The Doorway Project’s Spring Pop-Up Cafe and Town Hall event is just over two weeks away!
Please join us on Thursday May 9th, 2019 from 2:00-5:30pm at the UW School of Social Work 1st Floor Gallery. We look forward to gathering our U District and Seattle neighbors to collaboratively design and implement a community engagement cafe.
Your perspective and expertise continue to be invaluable in co-creating an innovative community-based approach to end youth homelessness in our region.
Please RSVP to the Town Hall event here by Monday, May 6th.
Sincerely,
The Doorway Project team members
www.doorwayproject.org
Dear Graduate Students,
On May 23rd and 24th, the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) will be celebrating its 20th anniversary with a program of short courses, a poster session, and a scientific conference. And we need your help. The conference mixer and Poster Session will be held on May 23rd from 5:30pm – 8:00pm, and will feature posters from graduate students doing research at the intersection of statistics and the social sciences.
Posters will be judged and gift certificates will be awarded for first place ($200), second place ($100) and third place ($50).
Please consider presenting your research. Note that you do not need to register for the conference or workshops to present your work at the poster session.
Submit your poster presentation before May 10 by clicking here.
More conference information:
- The short course and conference schedule can be found here.
- The conference program (pdf) is here.
- If you wish to attend the short courses, conference, or conference dinner, please register by clicking here.
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), with support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National
Institute on Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Aging, and the National
Science Foundation, announces a call for papers for the 2019 PSID Annual User Conference.
The conference welcomes submissions on any topic, from researchers in any field, that use data from
PSID or its supplements—the Child Development Supplement, the Transition into Adulthood
Supplement, the Disability and Use of Time Supplement, the Childhood Retrospective Circumstances
Study, or the Wellbeing and Daily Life Supplement.
The submission deadline is 3 June 2019. A total of 20 to 25 papers will be accepted for the conference,
either for presentation or as posters. The conference will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 12–13
September 2019. Travel and lodging expenses will be available for one author per accepted paper.
Meals will be provided to all conference participants.
See the complete call for papers here. The application portal is available here. Visit psid.org for more
information about the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Dan Eisenberg, CSDE Affiliate and Associate Professor of Anthropology, studied the DNA of nearly 3000 grandparents, plus their children and grandchildren, and found that a child’s telomere length correlates with the age at which their fathers and grandfathers reproduced. Telomeres are stretches of repetitive DNA at the ends of our chromosomes. These shorten each time a cell divides, so usually get shorter over a lifetime.
Because telomere length may play a role in longevity, this could represent older fathers adapting their children’s DNA for an environment in which it may be possible to live a longer life, says Eisenberg. “The father’s age at reproduction is likely to be containing a signal about what the recent environment was like,” he says. “It breaks some of the ways
biology is supposed to work.”
CSDE Regional Affiliate David Swanson, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at UC-Riverside, was recently appointed by the University of New Mexico Dean for Research to serve as a member of the External Advisory Committee of the Center for Geospatial and Population Studies. Swanson was also invited to visit the U. S. Bureau of the Census as a 2019 Summer at Census Scholar. He is invited to engage in collaborative research with Census Bureau researchers and staff and to prepare and present a Summer at Census seminar based on his research. In addition, he was just interviewed by Wallet Hub regarding the health of US cities real-estate environment, which pointed Seattle at the top. In naming the top five indicators for evaluation best cities for real estate agents, Swanson replied “demographics, demographics, demographics, demographics, and demographics.”
Applications for CSDE’s Grant Writing Summer Program are due by 6:00 PM on 5/3/2019! The program is designed to assist early-career scholars and those who are relatively new to writing NIH grant applications. Participants will be coached through the process of developing a competitive application, learn more about NIH grant mechanisms, writing, and reviewing, and engage in an intensive writing workshop with regular meetings, discussion sessions, and feedback. CSDE aims to demystify the grant-writing process and create a supportive environment that produces proposals ready for submission by the Fall.
Are you an undergrad passionate about social justice? A graduate student writing a dissertation on a labor-related topic? A busy activist building a student group or union campaign?
You are in luck! Each year, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies awards over $50,000 in scholarships at the University of Washington. The Bridges Center is currently seeking applicants from all three UW campuses and from students at all stages of education and experience, graduate and undergraduate.
Only one application is required to be considered for a host of individual awards ranging from $1,000 to $10,000.
Gail Potter
Principal Statistician, The Emmes Corporation, www.gailpotter.org
This study estimates the overall effect of a trivalent influenza vaccine program administered in a cluster-randomized trial in Senegal in 2009-2011. We apply cutting-edge methodology to combine social contact data with infection data to reduce bias arising from contamination between clusters (villages). Our time-varying additive effect estimate reveals that the vaccination program reduced influenza during the influenza season but increased it after pandemic H1N1 influenza appeared in the community. The estimated reduction in cumulative incidence due to the vaccination program was -0.68 percentage points in Year 1 of the study. While this suggests that the vaccine prevented 11% of infections (since control arm cumulative incidence was 6.13%), the estimate is not statistically significant. (A secondary analysis excluding A/H1N1pdm09 infections was significant.) The reduction in bias was small: a method assuming no contamination estimated a reduction of -0.65 percentage points. This is because contamination was low, ranging from 0-3% of contacts for most villages. More work is needed to estimate contamination – and its effect on estimation – for a variety of designs and settings.
The School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for multiple Postdoctoral Scholars, in the area of Data Science, at 100% time, to help conduct research, teach in, build, and be an integral part of our web-based Master of Information and Data Science program (datascience.berkeley.edu).
The number of positions varies from semester to semester, depending on the needs of the School. Positions typically start in January, May, and August, and appointments may be renewed based on need, funding, and performance.
The position will include teaching sections in our online Master’s program, research collaboration, and participating in the intellectual community at the School and on the Berkeley campus. Research responsibilities include pursuing a self-directed research agenda, presenting current research to the community, and participating in research exchange events. Teaching responsibilities include lecturing, holding office hours, grading, assigning grades, advising students, and preparing course materials. Postdocs are expected to teach up to 8 small sections per year as a Lecturer.
The postdoctoral researcher will join an effort to quantify human migration pressures associated with climate change with the long-term goal of understanding implications for international institutions. The postdoc will assist the principal investigator and collaborating researchers in the design, construction, and case study implementation of a modular analytic framework for quantifying and analyzing uncertainty in drivers of climate-motivated migration and their associated outcomes. The postdoc will take a lead role in documenting all aspects of the project, with special attention to the user interface. If the project is successful, the possibility exists to extend the length of appointment.