Join the UW Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science for the 2025 Fleagle Endowed Lecture featuring Steve J. Davis, Professor of Earth System Science, Stanford University. The lecture will be held in Kane Hall, Room 210 on November 6, 2025 from 7:00-8:30 PM.
Over the past decade, the focus of climate mitigation has shifted from incremental progress to achieving true net-zero emissions. This talk explores the hardest-to-abate sources of greenhouse gases—why they’re so challenging, and the most promising solutions emerging today. Drawing on recent research into net-zero pathways for the power sector, transportation, heating, and industry, the presentation highlights what we’ve learned and what lies ahead. Attendees will gain insight into how evolving technologies, geopolitics, and global ambitions continue to shape the path toward a stable climate.
This event is free and open to the general public. A recording of the lecture will be available to those who register for the event.
More about Professor Davis here
The third Call for Letters of Interest (LOI) for a training opportunity at the Washington Learning Health System Embedded Scientist Training and Research (LHS E-STAR) Center. This third and final round of scholars will conduct research projects at Community Health Association of Spokane and HealthPoint. Learn more about the E-STAR Center on their website: Applications :: ACT Center (act-center.org)
We encourage you to share the instructions for the LOI with early career faculty and postdocs who may be interested in this exciting opportunity. An informational webinar on the LOI and application process will be held on October 16, 2025 from 12:00-1:00 PM. Please register for the informational webinar here. All LOI materials will be due on November 10, 2025.
In the meantime, should you have any questions, please contact Monica Fujii (monica.m.fujii@kp.org).
If you have a data set that is really important for you and has valuable impact more generally, then consider telling your story to Essential Data U.S. (https://essentialdata.us/). They are seeking to build a compendium of cases that convey compelling real-world examples of how federal data can benefit the American people and economy. Your story will help data users and advocates be more effective when engaging with lawmakers and federal agencies for continued resourcing of federal data programs. Your story will also help federal agency data stewards and their leadership to better understand the true value of their data, especially as it relates to administration priorities.
The Centre for Migration Studies at University of British Columbia has just posted materials from a September conference on Narrative and Computational Text Analysis for research on migration and citizenship. The materials are relevant to anyone who is relatively new to computation text analysis and curious to learn more. You can download the materials from the workshop here.
It includes:
- a one-page summary of the workshop
- one page of recommended materials for those new to computational text analysis
- a .pdf of slides from the workshop
- an .html file of the demonstration, using historic judicial decisions on anti-Chinese legislation in BC.
When: December 5, 2025, 12:30 – 1:30pm PT
Where: 221 Raitt Hall
Please join us on December 5th for CSDE’s Fall 2025 Lightning Talk and Poster Session from 12:30 – 1:30 PST! The poster session and talk will take place in Raitt Hall Room 221 at the University of Washington. This event will feature presentations from Yicong Guo (Doctoral Student, Sociology), Theresa Hwee (Doctoral Student, Health Services, Health Systems, and Population Health), Hyunji Kim (Doctoral Candidate, Economics), Mark Nepf (Doctoral Student, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance), Ann Richey (Doctoral Student, Epidemiology), Edward Stuart (Doctoral Student, Anthropology), and organized by Mingze Li (Doctoral Student, Sociology). We will provide light snacks and refreshments. Please find more information on the event here!
CSDE Affiliate Jeanie Santaularia Gomez (Epidemiology), former CSDE Trainee Maryam Tanveer (Epidemiology) and co-authors recently penned an essay in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) arguing that policies that intentionally or unintentionally restrict reproductive autonomy constitute an act of violence. The essay explores 3 illustrative examples of how governmental power—through the passage of laws—can both support and constrain reproductive autonomy across the life course: sex education, abortion restrictions, and parental leave policies. For each, the authors explain how the consequent harms overlap with those resulting from more traditional overt forms of violence. By framing the loss of reproductive autonomy as a form of violence, the authors underscore its profound and far-reaching harms, demanding urgent recognition and response as a critical public health and human rights issue.
On October 28, Will von Geldern (CSDE Trainee) will be presenting their research at the UW Data Science Seminar. The seminar will be held in IEB G109 from 4:30 to 5:20 p.m. PT. Von Geldern will present preliminary results from a project that uses computer vision and natural language processing to document tenant responses to eviction summonses and connect tenants’ response patterns to subsequent case outcomes. As a part of the eScience Institute’s Data Science and AI Accelerator, von Geldern worked with eScience Data Scientist Curtis Atkisson to measure tenant behavior and case outcomes using text extracted from ~195,000 pdf documents from ~8,500 eviction cases in Pierce County, WA filed between 2022 and 2024.