The Department of Geography will host a geography-themed hackathon event on April 28-29^th in Denny Hall, room 303. The event, MapHacks, will bring UW students from all disciplines and departments together to apply their backgrounds in Web mapping and GIS using a wide variety of platforms, including MapBox, Carto, Tableau, QGIS, and PostgreSQL/PostGIS.

MapHacks will be held over the course of the weekend. On the first day, participants will form teams based on common interests within the overall theme of urban development issues. Projects will include topics such as LINK expansion, building construction, accessibility and safety, affordability, growth management, homelessness, traffic congestion, cycling routes, bike and car share programs. The outcome of each team’s project will be some form of visualization that incorporates concepts such as location, distance, space, spatial patterns, scale, or nature/society relations.

Most of the first day will be spent developing and carrying out projects, as well as tech talks by representatives from industry sponsors, which include Spatial Dev, a local GIS firm founded by a UW Geography alum. The second day will be devoted to the presentation of group projects, judging, and awarding prizes.

The event is being organized by geography majors Utako Kase and Ariel Kadouri along with Brent Gruenke, major in Human-Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) with help and guidance from Geography professor Luke Bergmann. MapHacks is co-sponsored by the Departments of Geography and HCDE, along with industry partners.

Registration is free, first come, first served, and is limited to 80 students. Click here to visit the event page and register.

The Population Health Initiative is again offering graduate student travel awards of up to $1,500 each to further students’ academic, research, or professional goals as they strive to become the next generation of leaders in population health. The application period for this round of funding closes on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 (11:59 p.m. Pacific). Applicants must be nominated by a faculty member.

Learn more by visiting the Population Health Initiative’s funding page: http://www.washington.edu/populationhealth/resources/funding-and-awards/.

Thursday, April 26, 2018
Featured speaker: Carl C. Anthony Co-Founder of the Breakthrough Communities Project, and Visiting Professor at The Center for Regional Change, UC Davis
6 – 7 p.m.
University of Washington Tacoma, William Philip Hall, 1918 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma

Carl Anthony is an architect, regional planner, environmental justice pioneer, and a committed social activist. As the founding director of one of the nation’s first environmental justice organizations, Urban Habitat, he led efforts to prod mainstream environmental movements to confront issues of race and class and to understand the dynamic intersections between them. Carl founded and edited the journal Race, Poverty, and the Environment. He led the Ford Foundation’s Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative and is the co-founder/co-director of the Breakthrough Communities Project, empowering grassroots communities  in metropolitan areas and supporting multiracial leadership. As the sole African American architecture student at Columbia University in the 1960s, Carl recognized the contradictions of the profession and sought ways to change it. During those student years he kick-started the national Conversation on Regional Equity (CORE), a dialogue that brought national policy experts and advocates together to consider how to bring about metropolitan racial justice.

Carl has taught at Columbia, UC Berkeley, Harvard’s Kennedy School, and is currently visiting faculty at UC Davis’ Center for Regional Change. He has published widely and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Trailblazer Award from the Sierra Club, UC Davis Community Engagement Award, and the Duveneck Humanitarian Award. His work has influenced the lives of thousands of American communities.

The School of Public Health at the University of Washington (UW) seeks one or two full-time, tenure-eligible faculty with a research focus on the impacts of racism, discrimination and other social inequalities on health. These positions would be in the Department of Health Services and/or the Department of Epidemiology at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank and based on a 12 month service period with an anticipated start date in fall 2018. The interests and qualifications of the successful candidate will determine in which department (Health Services or Epidemiology) the candidate will be primarily appointed. A joint or adjunct appointment may be considered with other UW departments or affiliated institutions.

The successful candidate is expected to lead scholarship around issues of racism, social justice and health, and will include a prominent role in a Center for Anti-Racism and Community Health focused on these themes. Few schools of public health are dedicated to tackling issues of race and social justice in a concerted manner, with community partners, and using rigorous methods across a variety of disciplines. We anticipate the successful candidate to lead efforts in conducting such research while also remaining committed to developing a cadre of public health advocates, practitioners and researchers equipped to identify and challenge systems and structures of racism and oppression. Importantly, the candidate must also be dedicated to building the pipeline of future scholars interested in defining and disrupting systems of structural racism and recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty.

We are looking for individuals with a DrPH or PhD degree or equivalent in public health or a related discipline, including but not limited to health services, epidemiology, health behavior, health policy, anthropology, cultural studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, demography, economics, geography, political science, social work, and sociology. We are especially interested in candidates with scholarly work around racism and related constructs as they impact health of populations nationally and globally.

The School of Science and Humanities at Husson University invites applications for a full-time, ranked faculty position in Sociology to begin in fall 2018. This full-time position requires a candidate with a record of demonstrated effective teaching of General Education classes in Sociology and Cultural Anthropology. In addition to this experience, the ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience developing and teaching online courses; developing and deploying assessment of student learning outcomes and curricula. The ideal candidate will have an active research agenda and provide evidence of research potential.

Husson University is a private institution of approximately 3500 undergraduate and graduate students located in Bangor, Maine. The University is dedicated to offering premier professional programs designed to maximize experiential learning opportunities and student success. Bangor has been ranked as one of the top 50 small cities in the U.S. It offers a safe, affordable community with excellent education and health care, easy access to major urban centers, and a wealth of outdoor recreation opportunities. Year round activities can be enjoyed on the numerous lakes, trails, and ski areas. The University is approximately 40 minutes from the Maine coast and the nearby mountains of Acadia National Park.

University College Dublin is seeking to fill the role of Professor/ Full Professor of Geography to offer leadership to the School in its goal to grow its research, teaching, and international engagement. This is a permanent full-time Professor/Full Professor role in UCD School of Geography.

UCD is listed in the top 1% of universities worldwide and Geography is ranked within the top 100 in the latest  QS World University subject rankings. We are part of a research-intensive university that is home to a wide range of disciplines organised into Colleges. Geography is within the College of Social Sciences and Law, which incorporates the allied fields of Archaeology, Economics, Education, Information and Communication Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice.

Geography is a popular undergraduate subject and its vibrant undergraduate syllabus contributes to both the 3-year BA and 4-year BSc degree programmes. We have several MA and MSc courses that reflect the interests of faculty (MA Geography, MA Geopolitics, MSc Global South, MSc Urban Environment and MSc Geospatial Analytics). These draw on academics within the School, College and University, in addition to expertise from non-academic practitioners. We have a vibrant research Masters and PhD community, many of whom are funded through prestigious scholarships. We have a GIS lab that is used primarily for teaching, a map library with a significant Irish collection and a GIS research lab

The Department of Sociology invites applications for a visiting assistant professor position (one-year term from August 1, 2018 through May 31, 2019). The classes taught will primarily consist of core sociology courses such as Diversity & Inequality, Social Theory, and Social Problems. Other courses to be taught may include Introduction to Sociology, Introduction to Social Statistics, or Research Methods. Previous teaching experience is required, and the candidate must have already earned or be near completion of a PhD in sociology. The Sociology Department at the University of Louisville offers a BA, BS, and MA in sociology, and a PhD in applied sociology.