A quick reminder for all members of the CSDE community who use WiFi at UW: make sure to connect to the Eduroam network. As UW’s encrypted Wi-Fi network, Eduram offers enhanced security for your wireless connection. Be sure to configure your devices to access this service.
Please read the full story for more information about the Eduroam service and instructions on how to configure it on your Wi-Fi enabled device.
Designed to complement formal course instruction, CSDE Workshops are offered in a shorter, more accessible format responsive to the specific demographic research needs of CSDE’s Trainees and Faculty Affiliates. Join us for:
Click below to register for each workshop.
9-to-5 work shifts aren’t the only solution for busy families. CSDE Trainee and Shanahan Fellow Christine Leibbrand, a graduate student in the Department of Sociology, examined the benefits of non-standard schedules in “Flexibility or Constraint? The Implications of Mothers’ and Fathers’ Nonstandard Schedules for Children’s Behavioral Outcomes.”
Leibbrand found that consistent working hours–no matter what time of day–provide families with flexibility and can even improve children’s behavior. She focused on two-parent families in which one parent worked a non-standard shift. Her findings include:
Her research has been featured in USA Today, The Times of India, and UW News. You can read the study, published in the June issue of the Journal of Family Issues, below.
Although immigrants to the United States are typically healthier than their U.S.-born counterparts, the health of immigrants declines with duration of stay in the U.S. A team of researchers—which includes CSDE Affiliate Butch de Castro and CSDE Biodemography Director Eleanor Brindle—seeks to distinguish the effects of acculturation versus secular trends.
Butch de Castro, Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at the School of Nursing, co-authored the paper with Gilbert Gee, Professor at UCLA’s Department of Community Health Sciences. Eleanor Brindle is consulting and providing lab work for the project. Health of Philippine Emigrants Study (HoPES) is funded with support from CSDE.
An article on their research was recently published in BMC Public Health, which you can read below.
The U.S. is in the midst of a major demographic shift. In a dozen years the last of the Baby Boomers—which have dominated American society for decades—will reach retirement age; meanwhile the oldest of the so-called Millennials, today’s young adults, will have arrived at middle age. What does the rise of the Millennial generation mean for America? How will growing ethnic and racial diversity shape American society? What trends are implicated in this momentum shift—namely, how do Millennials’ job prospects, educational achievements, and marital trends compare to previous generations? Join us for a fascinating discussion of the Millennial generation, featuring presentations by two leading researchers in population trends.
Description: The complex Green-Duwamish Watershed contains one of Seattle’s primary economic engines providing the region’s growth throughout the history of the City along with some of our nation’s most culturally and racially diverse communities. Significant population growth and climate change are challenging our region to adopt sustainable practices which requires the collaboration across government, business and community sectors.
Learn how challenges are being addressed through innovative programs which include diverse partnerships across all sectors, integration of environmental equity and inclusion for positive impacts. Panelist will speak on topics of collaboration, innovative community-based programs, partnering with multicultural businesses, collaborative partnerships to build a thriving, sustainable economy which is inclusive and protects the environment for the region’s communities.
Panelists include:
(1) Natural Resources Challenges and Solutions: Josh Baldi, DNR King County.
With complex challenges facing the county/region with growth, climate change, diverse demographics and how through collaboration they are addressing these challenges with innovative programs focused on sustainability, equity and inclusion.
(2) Empowering Business Through Sustainability: Joycelyn Chui, ECOSS.
ECOSS educates and collaborates with businesses and communities of diversity to implement environmentally sustainable practices through their innovative programs.
(3) Developing Youth Leadership in Communities of Diversity: Paulina Lopez, Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition’s Duwamish Youth Corp Program.
The Duwamish Youth Corps program focuses on providing underserved, at risk youth from the South Park area of Seattle a leadership development program which includes community activism, environmental education and career/work planning with a strong emphasis on environmental equity.
(4) The Business Case for Sustainability and Environmental Justice: speaker TBD
The University of Michigan Department of Political Science invites applications from outstanding candidates for a tenure track position in the field of Formal Theory to begin September 1, 2019. We are especially interested in candidates with substantive interests in International Relations and/or Public Law, at the assistant professor rank. This is a university year appointment. Promise of excellence in research and teaching is required.
Application submission information available at https://lsa.umich.edu/polisci/faculty-hiring.html. Review of applications will begin September 1, 2018.
Applicants should include the following application materials in PDF format: a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a concise statement describing current and future plans for research, a statement of teaching philosophy and experience, evidence of teaching excellence (if any), writing samples, graduate transcripts (for entry-level candidates), and a statement of activities contributing to diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia. Applications should also submit three letters of recommendation.
The University of Michigan is an AA/EO employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University is supportive of the needs of dual career couples.
The Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (NW CASC) invites proposals from faculty at UW, WWU, WSU, BSU and UM for funding to support science involving graduate students and post-docs in fields relating to understanding and addressing climate impacts on NW natural and cultural resources. Selected proposals will include instructing NW CASC Fellows in the principals and practices of co-producing decision-relevant (“actionable”) science to facilitate development of scientists proficient in confronting complex socio-ecological problems. Funding will be available beginning fall 2018 to support research performed during the 2018-2019 academic year. Applications due July 25, 2018. Please see the attached RFP announcement for details.
The Department of Sociology at Yale University intends to make multiple tenured and tenure-track appointments beginning July 1, 2019. We are seeking applicants whose work uses quantitative methods to study social inequality broadly defined. Substantive fields include but are not limited to race and ethnicity, immigration, gender, education, family, urban sociology, social networks, computational social science, demography, health, and the labor force. Candidates should be able to teach courses in undergraduate and graduate level statistics. Candidates for the untenured/junior position(s) should submit a letter of application; CV; writing sample, and three letters of reference. Submissions for the untenured/junior position may be made via http://apply.interfolio.com/50774
Candidates for the tenured/senior position(s) should submit a letter of application and CV. Submissions may be made via http://apply.interfolio.com/50775
Review of applications will begin September 15, 2018. Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Yale values diversity among its students, staff, and faculty and strongly welcomes applications from women, persons with disabilities, protected veterans, and underrepresented minorities
Since fall 2014, sixty students have formally enrolled in the Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods Program. Congratulations to the eight members of the 2017-2018 cohort for completing their first year in the program!
Cathea Carey is an MPH student in the Department of Health Services. She is interested in mental health access and quality of care, the use of demographic methods to forecast health-care access, and policy reform of evidence-based practices for mental health disorders.
Brenda Gellner is a student in the Evans School Ph.D. program in Public Policy & Management. Her research interests include social and economic mobility, inequality, retirement preparation, long-term support and services, policies targeted at people with disabilities, and barriers to employment.
Youngwon Kim is a doctoral student in Learning Sciences and Human Development in the School of Education. Youngwon is interested in the impact of socioeconomic status and public policies on child learning and development and variation across ethnic groups and gender.
Bradley Kramer completed his first year in the Ph.D. Program in Health Services. He is interested in the integration of evidenced-based programming into clinical practice and is currently working on developing and diffusing community health-worker interventions for chronic disease.
Max McDonald recently received an MPA from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. He is interested in the political and economic determinants of international migration. Max is interested in conducting research on the migration patterns of the Filipino diaspora. In the fall, he will begin a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships to study Tagalog.
Yohan Min is a doctoral student in the College of Built Environments. He is interested in studying resilient and sustainable infrastructure systems in the built environment to promote community resilience by encouraging the deployment of renewable energy and innovative management systems in consideration of invisible costs of environmental externalities and human health and private investment opportunities.
Emily Pollock is a doctoral student in anthropology. She is a biological anthropologist and is interested in infectious disease epidemiology and human and disease ecology, in particular, social and sexual networks, and the spread of infectious disease. Emily is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow.
Rebecca Rebbe is a Ph.D. Candidate in Social Welfare in the UW School of Social Work. She studies the responses to child maltreatment through systems, laws, and policies. Rebecca is also an NIH Translational Research Trainee through the UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences.
Interested in joining the Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods Program? Stay tuned for a call for applications for the 2018-2019 cohort in September, prior to the beginning of the quarter.