The University of Washington Department of Global Health and the Center for AIDS and STD are accepting applications for the 25th Annual Principles of STD/HIV Research Course. The course will be held July 17-July 27, 2017 at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.

Please join us for 2 weeks of intensive cross-disciplinary training in STD and HIV research fundamentals. You will gain a practically-oriented overview of the latest in behavioral, clinical, epidemiologic, statistical, operational, and pathogenesis research in STD and HIV. This is a unique opportunity for graduate students, trainees, and early career STD/HIV researchers to learn from and network with expert faculty and colleagues from around the world through lectures, interactive learning sessions, social events, and field trips.

For detailed course information, online application and payment information, please visit the Principles of STD/HIV Research Course website.

The general course application deadline is May 1, 2017.

Scholarships are available on a limited basis. Please see the website for eligibility guidelines and scholarship application deadline.

Please contact pshr@uw.edu with any questions not answered on the course website.

The CTL is currently looking for experienced TAs to faciltate workshops at this year’s TA Conference on Teaching and Learning (Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 19-20). Here is key information about the conference.

CONFERENCE DATES: All core conference workshops are on Tuesday, September 19th (10:45am to 4:00pm) and Wednesday, September 20th (9:00am to 4:00pm).

PLANNING SESSIONS: We expect all new and returning workshop facilitators to participate in the workshop planning sessions on Tuesday, September 12th (9:15am-3:30pm).

STIPEND: Facilitators receive $75 for the first time they lead a particular workshop and $50 for each subsequent time leading that same workshop.

TO APPLY:  For more information, visit:

http://www.washington.edu/teaching/programs/ta-conference/information-for-facilitators/

(You’ll see the link to the application at the bottom of the page.)

The Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) is hiring a graduate research assistant to help develop and publish a data literacy curriculum for the Data and Democracy project. This position will entail working on curriculum development and informal learning instruction for novice individual and organization users of data. Candidates should be comfortable with vocabulary and concepts related to data literacy and/or data lifecycles, but a deep knowledge of data is not specifically required.

This position will work up to a maximum of 10 hours per week.

Responsibilities may include some or all of the following duties:

• Helping to expand and translate an existing data literacy learning model into a deliverable workshop curriculum
  • Researching, adopting, or developing activities for novice data users
  • Exploring relevant data sources that can be used for activities
  • Writing clear and easy-to-follow directions
  • Helping research and develop a model for publishing the curriculum on the web

Requirements:

• University of Washington Graduate Student enrolled for a minimum of 10 credits spring quarter 2017.
• Basic understanding of data literacy
• Writing for general audiences

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in writing educational material, or developing curriculum for informal learning
• Experience teaching with data
• Experience developing workshop and educational materials for novice learners, or ESL
• Knowledge of data curation best practices

Pay:

Questions regarding salary and benefits should be directed to iSchool Human Resources at ihrhelp@uw.edu

Application Materials

• Cover Letter
• Resume

All applicants will be contacted two weeks after the position closes.

The Provost’s Office provides bridge funding to support faculty to span the gap in critical research programs.

Note that this opportunity is not intended to initiate new research projects. For those needs, researchers should apply to the Royalty Research Fund seed grant program (http://www.washington.edu/research/4researchers/rrf.php).

Eligibility

1. Faculty with a track record of extramural funding who have lost all of their research support at the time of the Bridge application, or who will lose all of their research support within six months of the Bridge application deadline. Exceptions will be made for faculty who have lost or will lose 50% or more of their salary support. Such faculty are eligible for Bridge funding even though they have existing funding. Bridge funds from the Provost cannot be used for salary; required department and/or college matching funds can be used for any expenditure that supports research, including faculty salary. In addition, faculty members who have a grant that is restricted to pay only their salary (such as some NIH K awards) are eligible if they have no other research funding.
2. Junior faculty with a record of productivity who have exhausted their startup funds, but who have not yet obtained their first research funding (including an RRF award) either as a PI or as a co-investigator.
3. A facility providing a key resource to multiple faculty that has lost extramural support. One faculty member should submit the proposal on behalf of the team.
4. Faculty who hold an RRF award are eligible if the amount of the award remaining at the time of Bridge Funding application is less than $30,000. Please note that applicants who apply to both programs (Bridge and RRF) simultaneously will only be given one award. If an individual holds a Bridge Fund award and subsequently receives an RRF award of $30,000 or more, any remaining Bridge Fund monies must be returned.

In all cases, evidence must be provided to demonstrate efforts to establish or re-establish funding. Evidence such as grant reviews with priority scores will be used to evaluate these efforts. In addition, for faculty with joint, adjunct, or affiliate appointments involving the UW and a separate institution, eligibility requires that grants have been processed through the UW. If you process grants through the other institution, you are not eligible for UW bridge funds.

Application Contents and Submission Process

Applications from faculty should be submitted to the applicant’s department chair, who should prioritize requests before forwarding them to the dean of the college/school. In non-departmentalized colleges/schools, applications should be submitted to the dean or his/her designee.

Your submitted application should include the Application Cover Page (also attached) and  the following five required sections in the order listed:

1. Curriculum vitae, including record of funding for the past 5 years with dollar amounts and funding periods listed for each grant (maximum of 4 pages combined). You may list either direct costs only, or direct + indirect, but indicate which is listed.
2. Demonstration of attempts to obtain funding (e.g. abstracts of submitted grants, panel summaries, priority scores or other evaluations and comments; do not send complete grant applications).
3. Description of proposed research (maximum of 5 pages including the bibliography). The abstract of a submitted grant is sufficient, if it is appropriate.
4. Budget and justification, including the match commitment (see below).
5. Statement of how this funding will increase chances of future funding.

In an effort to help improve graduate and professional student life at the University of Washington, the GPSS Travel Grants Program contributes funds to qualifying individuals’ travel expenses for active conference participation in the US and abroad.

This is done in an effort to facilitate and promote the intellectual and professional development of graduate and professional students at the University of Washington, but also to encourage mutually beneficial interaction among students and GPSS senators.

GPSS travel grants further contribute to the strengthening of the University and its increased prominence in the greater scholarly community through the broadening of students’ personal and academic development through exposure to the work of others elsewhere.

Students whose conference participation might otherwise be unfunded, have strong academic credentials and are making fair progress towards their respective degrees are encouraged to apply. Recipients will receive awards up to $300 for domestic conferences and $500 for international conferences.

This workshop is open to graduate students and postdocs.

We’ll cover the top three job search strategies you need to find a non-academic job in any field, plus look at some ways not to get a job.  No registration required, but do bring a tablet or laptop to get started on your job search during the workshop.

Nominations are now open for the 2017-18 GO-MAP Dissertation Fellowships. The GO-MAP Dissertation Fellowship award is intended to assist Ph.D. candidates of color in the final stages of writing and completing their dissertations. The 2017-18 GO-MAP Dissertation Fellowship is a three-quarter award established with support of the Stroum Endowment. Departments may submit no more than one nominee for this award.

The award must be used during the 2017-18 academic year (Fall 2017 through Summer 2018). The choice of the consecutive quarters will be left to the discretion of the graduate student in consultation with their supervisory committee chair.

2017-18 NOMINATION DEADLINE: THURSDAY, MAY 18, 2017; 5 PM

Eligibility

To be considered for this award, the student must:

• Have passed the General Examination and attained candidate status by the time of nomination.
• Have demonstrated progress on the dissertation that indicates completion by end of Summer 2018 or sooner.
• Be in a tuition-based program; students in fee-based programs are not eligible.
• Not have received another dissertation award from the Graduate School (e.g., Gatzert, Presidential).

Nomination Process

SUBMIT NOMINATIONS VIA CATALYST

Nominations are due no later than 5 PM, Thursday, May 11, 2017. No late materials will be accepted. Nominations will not be considered unless they are complete and submitted by the deadline.
Nomination Materials Nomination materials should be submitted only by the department as one file in PDF format. Nominations must include the following: 1. A completed nomination cover sheet (see email attachment). 2. A one-page letter of nomination from the GPC or chair of the department. Information about the student’s status and performance in the program or comparison with other recent students would be useful. 3. A one-page statement from the dissertation advisor demonstrating their opinion of: o The significance of the research. o The progress made to date (e.g., data collection, chapter drafts submitted), including the anticipated completion date. 4. A personal statement from the student (not to exceed 2 pages, double-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman, 1 inch margins) addressing factors such as economic and/or educational disadvantages, overcoming personal adversity, and cultural awareness. 5. A one-page statement of career goals from the student. 6. A one-page timeline of expected dissertation activities in 2017-18. 7. The student’s curriculum vitae. 8. A copy of the student’s current UW transcript. An unofficial copy is sufficient.

Terms of Award

• This is a consecutive three-quarter award.
• The award must be used during the 2017-18 year (Fall 2017 – Summer 2018).
• The student may not receive funding or employment from another source without prior approval from GO-MAP.
• The award provides a stipend of $20,000 for three quarters ($2,222 per month), GAIP insurance, and UW state tuition and fees (excluding UPASS).
• The number of awards will be determined by the caliber of the applications and the amount of funding available.
• International students and students in fee-based programs are not eligible.

Awards will be announced in early June.

The NICHD Exploratory/Developmental Grant program supports exploratory and developmental research projects that fall within the NICHD mission by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of these projects. These studies may involve considerable risk but may lead to a breakthrough in a particular area, or to the development of novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or applications that could have a major impact on a field of biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research.

The Population Dynamics Branch (PDB) mission is to support research and data collection in three areas: demography—the scientific statistical study of human populations; population health—research on human health, productivity, behavior, and development at the population level, using population representative samples or policy or natural experiments; and behavioral and social science research on reproductive health.

The Child Development and Behavior Branch (CDBB) mission is to support research focused on neurobiological, genetic, environmental, or social factors impacting developmental processes associated with behavior, cognition, learning (including reading, math and science learning and related disabilities), language, motor or social-emotional functioning or health status of infants, children, and young adults.