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The Basics and Essentials of Version Control (Free Online Workshop, 2/1/2019)

In this one-hour workshop, participants will learn why version control is an essential tool for science and explore the popular git version control system. Hands-on and interactive exercises will be used to teach participants about git operations such as clone, push, pull, fetch, and merge, among others. Attendees will learn version control best practices and will be prepared to start using it in their every day lives.

TO REGISTER: https://goo.gl/forms/4vD3WQ8SNbij34Qm1

If you have any questions, please email: wsapp@shinstitute.org

Labor Studies Graduate Research Grants

The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies currently seeks applications from University of Washington students for grants of $2,500-$5,000 for research about work, workers, and their organizations. The purpose of these grants is to provide funding for research expenses.

Who is Eligible?

  • Any graduate student who is currently active and will be active the upcoming academic year (2019-2020)
  • Graduate students at all branches of the University of Washington (Seattle, Bothell, or Tacoma)
  • Undergraduate funding to be announced soon! If you are an undergraduate student interested in research funding, please write to us at hbcls@uw.edu

Applicants must demonstrate the significance of their proposed research to the interdisciplinary field of labor studies. Research may focus on any dimension of labor in the United States or abroad, including but not limited to class relations, the social conditions of work, the labor process, working-class culture or politics, work and gender, work and race/ethnicity, the relationship between labor and the state, unions, or comparative international labor relations.

Applicants will be notified with grant decisions no later than the start of spring quarter on April 1, 2019. Funds will be available immediately.

For application details, visit the Bridges Center website, or contact us at hbcls@uw.edu or 206-543-7946.

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Social and Behavioral Sciences Branch

Please find attached our updated announcement of our recruitment of post-doctoral fellowships in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Branch within the Division of Intramural Population Health at NICHD. Applications will be reviewed beginning February 1st. I would be happy to speak with any interested candidates. More information about our branch can be found at https://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/org/diphr/officebranch/sbsb. General information about post-doctoral training in the NIH Intramural Research Program can be found at https://www.training.nih.gov/programs/postdoc_irp.

 

Call for Applications: Data Science for Social Good Summer Program (Seattle, 17/06-23/08/2019)

Are you interested in using data-driven discovery for societal benefit? 

The University of Washington eScience Institute, in collaboration with the Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative, is excited to announce the summer 2019 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program. The program brings together Student Fellows with data and domain researchers to work on focused, collaborative projects for societal benefit.

Approximately 16 DSSG Student Fellows will be selected to work with academic researchers, data scientists, and public stakeholder groups such as government officials, academic researchers, non-profit organizations, and the general public, on data-intensive research projects.

Who: Graduate students and advanced (junior/senior) undergraduate students are invited to apply. Spring 2019 graduates are eligible for this program. Students who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents are eligible to apply as long as their visa status allows them to work in the U.S. We cannot sponsor student visas for this program.

What: Each student will be part of a team working full-time on a research project that has concrete relevance and impact. Students are expected to work closely and collaboratively with team members onsite for the duration of the 10-week program. Projects will have an applied social good dimension and involve analysis and visualization of data from areas such as public health, sustainable urban planning, environmental protection, disaster response, crime prevention, education, transportation, governance, commerce, and social justice. Click for summaries of projects from the Summer 2015, Summer 2016,  Summer 2017, and Summer 2018 DSSG programs.

Where: Most work will be conducted on the UW campus in the WRF Data Science Studio, but some field excursions in the City of Seattle or King County may also be involved.

When: This is a 10-week long, full-time program beginning June 17th and ending August 23rd 2019.

Compensation: Students will be given a stipend of $7,000 for the 10 weeks.

Desired qualifications:

  • Demonstrated experience in issues related to social good
  • Research experience with quantitative or qualitative tools
  • Strong academic record
  • Previous programming experience

How to Apply: CLICK HERE FOR THE APPLICATION FORM. Please note: a copy of your CV and unofficial transcripts are required to complete the form.

Questions may be directed to efkeller@uw.edu.

Application Deadline: February 11, 2019 at 11:59 pm, Pacific Standard Time

Call for Contributed Papers: Symposium on Data Science & Statistics

Early registration for the 2019 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics may be opening soon, but opportunities to be on the program are closing soon, too!

If you’re a data scientist, computer scientist, or statistician who analyzes and visualizes complex data, you and your work could have a place on the program.

Many invited speakers are already on the program, and you can browse all the invited sessions online. Think about which of the seven SDSS tracks best encapsulates your work and ideas, and then start your paper or e-poster abstract submission.

Just remember deadlines are approaching quickly! Contributed paper abstract submissions are due January 31, and e-poster abstract submissions are due March 12.

Present Your Research at CSDE’s Winter 2019 Lightning Talks and Poster Session!

The air out there is cold, but we’re sure each of you have a warm heart that is producing exciting population research. We would love to hear about your work at the March 15 Lightning Talks and Poster Session! Please consider submitting a brief abstract for consideration. In the session, you can:

  • Get awesome feedback from an interdisciplinary set of scholars
  • Make new connections with researchers working in similar areas
  • Practice your presentation skills, perhaps to help you prepare for PAA or another upcoming conference
  • Use it for a class that requires a poster presentation

If any (or all) of these appeal to you, you may apply by completing a short form through the this link by Friday, February 1, 2019. CSDE will recognize the best poster with an award and prize. Posters will be assessed based on design, content, and presentation.

Seven applicants will be chosen to give a short (~2 minute) presentation and discuss their poster with students, faculty, and other researchers in the CSDE community. Students at any stage in the research process are welcome to apply.

The Poster Session will be on Friday, March 15, 12:30-1:30 PM in Room Green A, Research Commons, Allen Library South

We look forward to hearing about all the cool research that is ongoing! Please feel free to contact Yuan Hsiao (Sociology PhD Candidate) at yahsiao@uw.edu if you have any questions.

Panel on the Health Risks of Climate Change

Join us for a panel discussion on the Health Risks of Climate Change:

What the Interactions between Climate and Socioeconomic Changes Could Mean for Population Health over Coming Decades
Kristie Ebi, Professor, Global Health & Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, UW

Future Drivers of Vulnerability, Particularly Demographic Change
Sam Sellers, Senior Fellow, CHanGE, Global Health, UW

A Local Public Health Perspective on Health Impacts of Climate Change
Jeffrey Duchin, Professor, Medicine, Allergy and Infectious Diseases & Epidemiology, UW

 

CSDE Alum, Nikki Eller (Health Services MPH ’17), Publishes Article on Vaccine Information Sources and Parental Trust in Care Provider

Nikki Eller recently published her master’s thesis in Health Education and Behavior. Her analysis of survey data from mothers of healthy newborns in Washington State examines the association between parental trust in their child’s health care provider and vaccine information sources. She finds, for instance, that mothers with less trust in their child’s health care provider used more and different sources, especially more informal sources, and were less likely to consider their child’s pediatrician as their main source of vaccine information compared with more trusting mothers. The authors conclude that future interventions seeking to reduce parental vaccine hesitancy should consider intervention components focused on building or improving parent trust in their child’s health care provider.

An early version of Eller’s research was presented during the Winter Quarter 2018 lightening talks and poster session. Nikki Eller’s poster won the best poster award (click here to read the story).

Nikki currently works at the Washington State Department of Health and has recently been promoted to Regional Evaluation Liaison, representing the Washington State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) evaluation team. Nikki will spend time traveling around the state and working with the groups implementing SNAP-Ed programming to do smaller-scale evaluations, and help them understand the picture at the state level.