OBSSR is interested in supporting the integration of health-related behavioral and social sciences (BSS) with other biomedical methodological and scientific disciplines (e.g., genetics, immunology, metabolomics, molecular biology, microbiome, biochemistry, or physiological sciences).  The goal is to train a research workforce that has the content expertise and skills to meaningful address gaps in scientific advancement that are not well served by a more siloed approach to research. To support this goal, the OBSSR is soliciting applications for a one-time administrative supplement to existing NIH T32 and TL1 training grants for the addition of activities that support the acquisition of expertise and skills that are foundational to conducting multidisciplinary science that integrates BSS with biomedical approaches, methods, paradigms, and outcomes. Activities may include components to better prepare students for research careers in a variety of venues, such as industry, government, or entrepreneurial enterprises. Applicants are encouraged to develop components that can be easily shared with other training programs. Applicants might respond to this announcement by adding curricula from biomedical disciplines to T32s and TL1s that are primarily focused on BSS or by adding BSS curricula to T32s and TL1s that are primarily focused on biomedical sciences. Additions to existing grants should have the goal of developing skills and expertise in integrated and multidisciplinary research. The cross-discipline curricula added to a T32 or TL1 could focus on training in discipline-specific methods, measurement approaches, research paradigms, and/or discipline specific subject matter expertise.

Applicants should note that this NOSI provides an opportunity to request only one year of support, and the funds from this supplement must be expended during the 12-month budget period of the award. Some NIH institutes may have restrictions on the year in which the award can be made, so please consult with your program officer. Application budgets are limited to no more than $80,000 direct costs or the amount of the current parent award, and must reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.

Applicants should also note that funds from this supplement are for added curricula development and implementation and are not intended to support additional trainee slots, nor should the funds be used to support faculty salaries.

First Available Due Date: January 25, 2020

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The Department of Health Services at the University of Washington seeks to fill one or two full-time faculty positions with a focus on Population Health Research as an Assistant Professor (WOT*) on a 12-month service period, with an anticipated start date in fall 2020.   

Applicants for this position should have research interests focused on populations in the United States whose health status is impacted by social and structural inequities, such as immigrant populations, people with lower socioeconomic status, racial and ethnic minorities, rural communities, and sexual or gender minorities.  The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Focus on general health services research, health policy, and/or implementation science.
• Demonstrate strong methodologic skills, including qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods research approaches.
• Work in collaborative interdisciplinary research teams.
• Establish and maintain research ties to underserved communities.
• Involve graduate and undergraduate students in faculty-directed research and/or mentor diverse graduate and undergraduate students in independent research.

Faculty members in our department are expected to: (a) conduct an independent research program that complements Department, School, and University research initiatives and programs, (b) participate in collaborative research programs as appropriate to their interests, (c) teach in the Department’s educational programs, and (d) mentor undergraduate, Masters and PhD students. In addition, the successful candidate(s) would be expected to regularly participate in Program and Departmental activities such as mentoring and providing career development for diverse professionals and students, seminar participation or guest speaking, orientation(s), program and department faculty meetings, graduation ceremonies, search committees, and relevant academic activities in the Department.  University of Washington faculty members engage in research, service, and teaching. This position is contingent on available funding.

Application Instructions

To be considered for this position, please submit the following:

• A letter of interest describing your mentoring experience, research interests and teaching history;
• A one-page diversity statement that describes your experience related to equity, diversity, and inclusion, as well as your potential to contribute to our diversity mission and commitment to being an anti-racist institution; and
• Curriculum Vitae (including description of extramural funding).

Review of applications will begin December 14, 2019. The position is open until filled.

If you have questions please contact:

Holly Bergstrom, Manager of Faculty Human Resources – hb2@uw.edu

Department of Health Services, University of Washington

The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee invite you to attend the 2019 NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival: Connecting People to Advance Health, on Friday, December 6th, 2019 from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. in the William H. Natcher Conference Center, Building 45, on the NIH’s Main Campus in Bethesda, MD.

This annual festival brings together behavioral and social scientists across the NIH extramural and intramural communities to network, collaborate, and share scientific ideas; highlight recent NIH funded behavioral and social sciences research; and explore ways to advance behavioral and social sciences research across biomedical and health-related fields.

Click this link or the link below to register and for more information.

The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for up to five open-rank, tenure-track or tenured positions to begin Fall 2020. This interdisciplinary cohort hire is focused on recruiting scholars with ambitious research agendas who address racial retrenchment, or the losses and setbacks that often follow racial justice and diversity gains. Scholars who study race in relation to gender, sexuality, disability, indigeneity, migration, the environment, mass incarceration, poverty, socio-economic class, capitalism, populism, fascism, global ideological trends, and other systems of power are especially welcomed.

These hires are part of a new multidisciplinary project at UT called GRIDS—The Gender, Race, Indigeneity, Disability, and Sexuality Studies Initiative. Candidates’ tenure lines will be housed in one or more of the following departments in the College of Liberal Arts: African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, and American Studies. Candidates will have the opportunity to build research partnerships and mentoring relationships with their cohort through GRIDS. Associate and Full Professors will have the option of holding a joint appointment with any two departments named above, or if appropriate, the opportunity to hold a 50% teaching appointment in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program, the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, or the Center for Asian American Studies.

Please submit an electronic application via Interfolio with your CV, letter of interest, writing sample, statement describing your work addressing racial equity in your field(s), and a list of three references and their contact information addressed to Dr. Karma Chávez and Dr. Cherise Smith, co-Chairs, College of Liberal Arts Diversity Committee. Applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled, but for full consideration, submit by November 15. Please direct any questions to: Karma Chávez at karma.chavez@utexas.edu.

The Department of Sociology and Criminology seeks a dynamic, energetic leader with the ability to effectively engage faculty, staff, students, and external constituencies in a collegial and collaborative manner. The ideal candidate will have a proven record of excellence in scholarship, academic leadership, faculty development, fundraising, and financial management.

The Chair represents the Department as part of the college’s leadership team, and is primarily responsible for the recruitment, development, and retention of the Department’s faculty and staff. Other responsibilities will include resource attainment, financial management, and stakeholder-relationship management. The Chair manages a diverse community of faculty, staff, and students and oversees a broad curriculum, so the ideal candidate must be adept at building and supporting multi-disciplinary partnerships and outreach activities, within a diverse community.

The ideal candidate must have an active and vibrant research agenda, be able to model intellectual leadership, be knowledgeable about higher education trends and issues, and be collaborative in developing team-focused, data-driven approaches to problem solving.  

Working in partnership with the senior administration of the College of Arts & Science, the successful candidate will be expected to embrace and contribute to the missions of the Department and University.

Applications should include a cover letter and curriculum vitae.  Applications and nominations will be accepted until the position is filled. Confidential review of materials and screening of candidates will begin immediately.

Contact Information:

Dr. Nikki Taylor

Chair, Department of History and Sociology

 and Criminology Chair Search Committee

Howard University

NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and to apply that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. To achieve this mission, NIH substantially invests in research that encourages people to engage in behaviors that prevent illness or optimize their overall wellbeing while living with a chronic condition.

The purpose of this notice is to encourage research into maintenance of health behavior change. Many FOAs state the importance of the maintenance of behavior change, and request research projects that aim to promote long-term behavior change. Nevertheless, much more research is needed on how best to promote the maintenance of behavior change, particularly given mounting evidence that the mechanisms underlying the initiation of behavior change are not synonymous with those underlying the maintenance of behavior change.

Testing for behavior change maintenance often requires longer-term follow-up than what is achievable within a single NIH R01 grant timeframe. The NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) listed on this notice are expressly interested in competitive renewal (type 2) applications that propose continued research with participants from a previously-funded behavioral intervention to see if and how behaviors were maintained. Ideas for unique approaches using other types of NIH research mechanisms are welcome. Regardless of NIH funding mechanism, applicants are encouraged to explore, for example,

• What types of behaviors were maintained,
• Why the behavior(s) were or were not maintained,
• What intermediate behavior-related changes emerged,
• Impact on health outcomes, or at least intermediate outcomes or lab values,
• Underlying individual, social, community, or environmental processes influencing behavior maintenance or discontinuation,
• The effectiveness/value of boosters, or
• Illuminate populations or subgroups of participants who were able to maintain the behavior change.

The bulleted items above are exemplars and do not constitute an exhaustive list of ICO-specific interests. Analysis of data on longer-term health-related behavior change can help build a more cumulative and integrated knowledge base on behavioral and social sciences in public health and work toward reducing health disparities

Monday, November 25th

12:30 – 1:30 pm

School of Social Work 305A

“Deepening our Understanding of America’s Most Vulnerable Communities”

Luke Shaefer, University of Michigan

WCPC (West Coast Poverty Center)’s quarterly Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy brings nationally prominent poverty researchers to the university to present and discuss their findings with faculty and students. The seminars are open to the public and attract a range of faculty and students from disciplines across campus, as well as local service providers and engaged community members. Available as a for-credit course to graduate-level students, the seminar series also offers an opportunity for networking and career development, as students meet with poverty researchers throughout the quarter. 

The Allen Library Consultation Studio wants to help UW graduate students across the disciplines with navigating the final weeks of the quarter. The Consultation Studio in Allen Library offers several services, including drop-in hours. Depending on the service, they can also schedule appointments.

 Citation Tools Management: By appointment

Design Help Desk: Drop-ins Mondays 12pm-2pm, Tuesdays 10am-12pm, and by appointment M & T

Digital Scholarship: Drop-ins Mondays 2pm-3pm

Graduate Funding: Drop-ins Mondays 12:30pm-1:30pm, Thursdays 1pm-2pm, and by appointment M, T, Th, & F

Graduate Writing: Drop-ins Fridays 11:45am-2:45pm

Text Mining: Drop-ins Tuesdays 1pm-4pm

 A complete list of services, drop-in hours, and contact information can be found here: https://www.lib.washington.edu/commons/services

This course illustrates the essential components required to create a professional quality documents with the LaTeX. LaTeX is frequently used to write thesis, reports, scientific papers for journals, conferences and making presentations. The essential beauty of LaTeX is that it separates the task of document layout/visual representation from that of the contents of the documents. As a result you pay more attention to the actual contents and are not distracted by the visual appearence. It also automates many of the tedious processes involved in writing a professional publications such as managment of references, visual layout and formatting styles.

With LaTeX, you will find easy and effective management of references, figures, tables, footnotes, formatting, mathematical equations, algorithms, scientific proofs, that have no match compared to the the conventional document setting and word processing software.

The course is design in a way that it will introduce you to tools that are freely available online. The examples and other instructional material are included for you to download and practice. 

At the end of this course,  

• You will be a confident user of LaTeX 
• You will be able to create your own document in LaTeX
• You will learn about different elements of creating professional documents such as how to manage references, figures, tables, footnotes, formatting, mathematical equations, algorithms, scientific proofs and many others
• You will be able to create well formatted mathematical equations, algorithms, and proofs

Who is the target audience?

• Researchers, Entrepreneurs, Instructors, College Students, Engineers, Programmers, Simulators who wants to quickly create front ends for their users to run their code and projects

Ohio State University invites your submissions to the 4th Annual PhD Conference on Real Estate and Housing, which takes place on April 28 and 29, 2020, in Columbus, Ohio. The conference is specifically intended as a platform to showcase and develop the work of doctoral students through constructive discussions and sharing of ideas. PhD students whose papers are selected for presentation will be provided with a hotel room and have the opportunity to apply for a financial package to help cover the costs of travel.

TOPICS: The PhD Conference on Real Estate and Housing program committee welcomes draft paper submissions from doctoral students examining a wide array of real estate and housing topics related to policy, practice and theory. Submissions may address issues including, but not limited to:

• Real estate finance and economics • Housing and community development

• Urban and regional economics • Housing affordability

• Housing policy • Real estate law

We invite studies from all disciplines including finance, business, public policy, sociology, economics, urban planning, geography, demographics, law, criminology, and public health.

PAPER SUBMISSION: Submissions must consist of unpublished draft research papers that may be single-authored or co-authored. The deadline for proposal submissions is February 3, 2020. Accepted authors will have the opportunity to revise their draft prior to final paper submission deadline on March 31, 2020. Please submit your proposals via the conference website: https://fisher.osu.edu/centers-partnerships/center-real-estate/node/668

Please send questions to phdrealestateconf@osu.edu.