Join CSDE’s Biomarker Working Group meetings for the 2018-2019 academic year! The purpose of the Working Group is to provide a forum for discussions of practical and theoretical issues associated with collecting and using biomarker data in social and behavioral science research. We hope to provide an opportunity for faculty and students with an interest in biomarker methods to meet researchers with similar interests from departments across campus.
We will meet on the last Tuesday of each month, 2:00-3:00 PM, in 114 Raitt Hall. Our autumn quarter meetings will be on October 30 and November 27.
Please contact Eleanor Brindle if you are interested in discussing biomarker issues in your work or new biomarker research ideas in an upcoming meeting. We also welcome suggestions for topics relating to biomarker methods, challenges or controversies, or requests for hands-on training in biomarker data collection techniques.
Those who would like to receive regular meeting announcements by email may subscribe to the mailing list using this link.
The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship is a prestigious one-year fellowship that covers the last year of dissertation research and writing for students in humanities and social science departments. The award provides a $30,000 stipend, funds for research costs of up to $3,000 and for university fees of up to $5,000. The award period starts summer 2019. Students who are in their graduate program for six years or less are eligible to apply.
For successful applicants, the UW Graduate School will step in to cover the costs of tuition that the award can’t cover. Please contact your departments for more information on this.
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. Most workshops meet for 1-3 sessions of a few hours each.
This October, CSDE will be offering Workshops on the topics below. Click on any Workshop to learn more and register:
To inquire about workshops or request a session on a topic, contact Cori Mar.
Come celebrate the start of the year with CSDE! Catch up with your colleagues, meet new affiliates, fellows, and trainees, and find out what is new at CSDE. Refreshments provided.
We are meeting at the usual 12:30 PM seminar time, but please note the special location for the Reception: Smith Room in Suzzallo Library
The CSDE community is thrilled to welcome Jennifer Utrata, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Puget Sound, for the 2018-19 academic year. Utrata is a visiting scholar as part of her American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars.
Utrata is interested in how economic and cultural transformations shape gender and intimate relationships in families. Her award-winning book, Women without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia (Cornell, 2015), analyzes how ordinary people, especially single mothers, navigate the transition from state socialism to market capitalism during Russia’s “quiet revolution” in family life. She has also written about nonresident fathers and divorce, the effects of work insecurities and neoliberal capitalism on the self, intergenerational relations between grandmothers and adult children, the intersectionality of gender and age, and the ways in which unpaid care work shapes gender inequality. Her current research examines how “intensive grandmothering” in the United States affects the transition to parenthood, parents’ responses to the child-care crisis, and broader inequalities among families.
Utrata received one of 10 nationwide Burkhardt fellowships, which support long-term projects in the humanities and social sciences. She is part of the third cohort of the newly expanded program, which now offers special opportunities for recently tenured faculty at liberal arts colleges to take up residency in university departments and centers for a year of research, writing, and fruitful collaboration.
The Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) has honored CSDE Fellow Alumnus, Michael Esposito, PhD in Sociology at UW, as Member of the Month. Dr. Esposito is now Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, Survey Research Center and Institute for Social Research. He specializes in population health and studies how and why race matters for health. His work describes the processes that generate racial disparities in health outcomes and addresses methodological difficulties by applying cutting-edge methods to unique data.
Dr. Esposito first joined IAPHS in 2016 when CSDE awarded him an IAPHS membership. At the next IAHPS annual conference in October 2017, he presented the paper “Race, Place, and Deaths Involving Suicide”, which he co-authored with CSDE Regional Affiliate Hedwig Lee, Professor of Sociology at the Washington University in St. Louis, and other colleagues. Dr. Esposito named Professor Lee as the population health professional who he admired most in the IAPHS featured interview. Dr. Esposito, Professor Lee and Frank Edwards, PhD in Sociology at UW, recently published a groundbreaking paper on police involved mortality in the American Journal of Public Health that was featured last month in the CSDE Newsletter,
To learn more about Mike, please read the full IAPHS interview below.
SeniorAdvice.com has just announced a new scholarship for CSDE students who have acted as a caregiver to an adult friend or relative in any capacity. The winner of the SeniorAdvice.com Caregiver Scholarship will receive $2,000 for tuition and/or books paid directly to the recipient.
Students must be attending a two or four year university or college in the Spring of 2019. They must have been involved in caregiving for a family member or friend. SeniorAdvice.com employees and their family members are not eligible to apply for this scholarship.
Scholarship winners will be notified by February 1, 2019. Judging will be based on the following criteria, that include, but are not limited to: Quality of submission content; Impact the scholarship will make on the life of the student; Whether the applicant has addressed the application questions and satisfied the application guidelines.
The University Honors Program has an exciting opportunity to hire three graduate student admissions readers for Winter Quarter 2019. This is an excellent chance for graduate students to work with higher education professionals from across campus in the review of undergraduate freshmen applications to the Honors Program for admittance Autumn Quarter 2019.
The University Honors Program is an innovative and collaborative community engaged in rigorous interdisciplinary exploration. Students can pursue Honors as a general education track, as an in-depth program within their majors, or as a combination of the two. They may apply as new freshmen, at the end of their first year, or once they’ve selected a major. We prepare our students to ask and answer bold questions about the challenges facing our ever-changing world. Our students participate in small classes with faculty from across campus and work across the university, challenging themselves and each other to take intellectual risks and commit to conscious global citizenship.
Congress established the Alan T. Waterman Award in August 1975 to mark the 25th Anniversary of the National Science Foundation and to honor its first Director. The annual award recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the National Science Foundation. In addition to a medal, the awardee receives a grant of $1,000,000 over a five year period for scientific research or advanced study in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, social, or other sciences at the institution of the recipient’s choice.
Eligibility and Selection Criteria: A candidate must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. He or she must be 40 years of age or younger, OR not more than 10 years beyond receipt of the Ph.D. degree, by December 31st of the year in which they are nominated. A candidate should have demonstrated exceptional individual achievement in scientific or engineering research of sufficient quality, originality, innovation, and significant impact on the field so as to situate him or her as a leader among peers.
See flyer here.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announces a new competition for access to data from two of the most important randomized social experiments ever conducted, the Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing (MTO) demonstration and the Family Options Study (FOS).
HUD has partnered with the U.S. Census Bureau to make the experimental data more available to qualified researchers and more readily matched with other administrative data. By making these data more accessible to qualified researchers, HUD expects to continue the process of evidence building using MTO experimental data to assess the impact of neighborhoods on the lives of low-income families with children and using FOS experimental data to assess housing and services interventions for families with children experiencing homelessness.
This request for proposal marks the start of what we hope will be a long-term relationship with the U.S. Census Bureau to make data from HUD-sponsored randomized social experiments available to researchers for ongoing evidence-building efforts.
HUD and U.S. Census Bureau program and/or research staff will review each proposal with up to three winners being announced in December 2018. For each winner, HUD and Census will cover all project costs for the first year of the project, exclusive of the cost to access a Federal Research Data Center (RDC). Included in the award are the cost to obtain special sworn status for researchers; to draft, route, and review the project agreement; to ingest, process, and provision any outside data; to provide technical and administrative assistance during the analyses, and to assist with disclosure review for the final analyses. The estimated value of the prize is $30,000.
The application deadline is 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern time on November 2, 2018. Proposals and subsequent amendments must be received no later than the deadline.
Find out more about the U.S. Census Bureau data linkage infrastructure at www.census.gov/datalinkage.
Questions and proposals can be submitted to ERD.Data-Linkage@Census.gov