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.

This is a 1 credit (credit/no credit only), online course that introduces critical, foundational concepts and strategies to enhance effectiveness in adopting or adapting prevention strategies with multicultural communities. It is open to all UW graduate students. You can find more details in the attached flyer or contact course faculty for more information.

It focuses on increasing effectiveness of organization- and community-level health promotion and prevention programs with multicultural communities. It also includes web-based tool-kits pertaining to:
• Cross-cultural adaptation of health promotion programs
• Mental health promotion in communities
• Institutional readiness to sustain prevention policies

ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS FORMAT WITH AN OPTION OF ONE IN-PERSON MEETING

Course Faculty:
Dr. Jenny Tsai, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Department of Psychosocial and Community
Email: jennyt@uw.edu

The doctoral student will use historical Québec microdata to produce a Ph.D. thesis based on a set of research articles publishable in international refereed journals.

This doctoral scholarship is offered as part of a research project, « Kinship Influences on Fertility and Longevity in Quebec and Utah: a comparative study of two historic founder populations, » financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).  This project studies demographic responses to socio-economic shocks and pressure in pre- demographic transition Quebec and Utah, exploring the mediating role of kinship networks on fertility and mortality outcomes.  The project draws upon longitudinal data from the historic populations of Quebec (1800-1849), Saguenay Lac St.-Jean (1837-1900) and Utah (1800-1900).

The doctoral student will explore:  1) kinship networks and kin availability in Quebec ; 2) long-term trends, demographic interactions and the impact of economic and environmental change; and 3) the relative influence of kinship, environment and economic opportunity.

UW News and the Office for Faculty Advancement want to help researchers share that knowledge worldwide by helping them learn how to write for general audiences and how to approach nonacademic publishing venues.

To that end, on April 6 and 7 we are hosting workshops on the Seattle campus for faculty, postdocs, graduate students and other UW-affiliated researchers interested in writing about their areas of expertise for mainstream audiences in the form of opinion and analysis pieces.

Our workshops will be led by editors from The Conversation, a news analysis website that publishes articles on timely issues written by academics who draw upon their expertise and research.  Assisting the editors will be our own staff writers and editors at UW News.  Last year, UW researchers across many academic disciplines published 30 analysis pieces and reached over half a million readers through The Conversation, which makes its published pieces available to other publishers for free, including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Salon and many others.  In the workshops, editors from The Conversation will provide tips and strategies for translating academic research into articles and posts appropriate for newspapers, magazines, journals, online forums and so forth.

To help us streamline the process of adding people to the workshops, we are asking interested participants to fill out the short form below.  Tell us why you’re interested and what you hope to get out of the training.

Centre College invites applications for a tenure-track assistant or associate professor of Sociology beginning August 2017.  The Sociology program seeks a teacher-scholar who will enhance the living, learning, and teaching environment at Centre College with their lived experience, ideas, perspectives, and scholarship. Their contributions will push Centre students and Centre faculty to consider new ideas and viewpoints.  While the area of specialty is open, we encourage applications from candidates whose research considers race and ethnicity, justice, law, crime, urban sociology, economic sociology, migration, environmental sociology, or political sociology.  Ph. D. preferred; very advanced ABD will be considered.

The Critical Role of Graduate and Professional Students in Post-Election America

The election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States has defined the current state of local, national, and global politics. In this moment, it is critical that we 1) reassess our roles as graduate and professional students within the university community, 2) insist upon our dedication to academic freedom, and 3) assert our commitments to equity as well as the safety of the most vulnerable members of our communities.

This conference invites graduate and professional students across all three campuses of the University of Washington to address the following questions: How do you position yourself and your work at the university in relation to the current geopolitical climate? Specifically, how does your work contribute to the university community, the preservation of academic freedom, the project of creating equitable societies, and/or the safety and wellbeing of people imperiled by current social and political formations?

To answer these questions, this conference emphasizes interdisciplinary conversation and intersectional approaches to academic and professional work. We encourage applicants to propose presentations, panels, or posters that address one or more of the themes in the link below.

Microsoft recognizes the value of diversity in computing. The Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant aims to increase the pipeline of diverse talent receiving advanced degrees in computing-related fields by providing a research funding opportunity for doctoral students from groups under-represented in computing (women, African-Americans/Blacks, Hispanics/Latinos, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and/or people with disabilities).

Provisions of the award

• The 2017 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant recipients will receive funding up to 20,000 USD for academic year 2017–18 to help them complete research as part of their doctoral thesis work.
• Microsoft will arrange and pay for travel and accommodations to grant recipients to attend a two-day Microsoft Research workshop in Redmond, Washington, in autumn 2017.
  • The workshop will provide grant recipients an opportunity to present their research, meet individually with Microsoft researchers in their research area and receive career coaching from Microsoft researchers.

Eligibility criteria

• PhD students must be enrolled at a university in the United States or Canada and doing dissertation work that relates to computing topics in which Microsoft Research has expertise (click on Research Areas at the top of the page for a full list).
• PhD students must be in their fourth year or beyond in a PhD program when they apply for this grant. The student must continue to be enrolled at the university in the autumn of 2017. Funding is for use only during their time in the PhD program; it cannot be used for support in a role past graduation, such as a postdoc or faculty position. The applicant will need to confirm their PhD program starting month and year, as well as their expected graduation month and year.
• Payment of the grant, as described above, will be made directly to the grant recipient’s university and dispersed according to the university’s policies.
• Applicants must attest that they self-identify with at least one group under-represented in computing. This includes: women, African-American/Black, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and/or people with disabilities.

Join the Center for Multicultural Education at UW for its 20th Book Talk, this time featuring Charles Hirschman! Hirschman is a CSDE Affiliate and UW Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, and his work analyzes educational disparities across gender, race, and immigration status. A book signing will follow the presentation.

RVSP by March 31 via email: centerme@uw.edu

The Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) in collaboration with the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) is hosting the first Asian Summer School on how demographic trends and improving educational attainment impact on economic growth around the Asia region. This will also include discussions about the so-called first and second Demographic Dividends and on the role of human capital as a determinant of economic development. Leading international scholars from the US, Europe and Asia will give lectures providing overviews of the state of knowledge in these fields.

Participants in the summer school will typically be pre-docs or recent PhDs. Applications will be considered from around the world. The number of participants is limited to 20 and acceptance is highly competitive. A number of participants will receive bursaries for travel and living expenses in Shanghai (upon request). There is no tuition charge.

How to apply

• Students at the pre-doc level/recent PhDs are invited to apply with a motivation letter (max. 1 page) and their CV.
• Two persons should be named who can potentially serve as referees.
• There are 20 places on the course. The main selection criterion is the quality of the application.
• The list of participants will be announced by 6 May 2017.
• Please send your application to Samir KC kc@iiasa.ac.at or Yu Zhang zhang.yu.sh@qq.com
• A number of participants will receive bursaries for travel and living expenses in Shanghai (upon request).

Event details
Dates: 19-23 June 2017
Location: Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI), Shanghai University
Application deadline: 24 March 2017