The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office of the U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the the opening of the competition for the Fiscal Year 2017 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) program.
The GPA program provides grants to institutions that organize programs for K-12 teachers, college students, and faculty to engage in short-term and long-term overseas projects focused on training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies. Short-term projects include seminars, curriculum development, and group research or study. Long-term projects support advanced intensive overseas programs that focus on languages, the humanities, or social sciences.
IFLE expects to make 20 new awards totaling $2.7 million under the FY 2017 GPA competition. The application is now available at www.grants.gov. The deadline to submit an application is March 7, 2017.
The Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario invites applications for a postdoctoral scholar in Sociology and Demography as part of the SSHRC and CIHR funded project CREW. The main focus will be on the population of older adults without close kin, and how the welfare state shapes their well-being. The main datasets for this project will be SHARE, the Canadian General Social Survey, and the GGS (Generations and Gender Surveys). We will also use microsimulation to examine how the population of older adults without (close) kin may change in the future. The initial duration for this position is one year, with the possibility of extension of up to 1.5 additional years. The position will be supervised by Dr. Rachel Margolis.
The theme group Families and Generations at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute has a vacancy for one PhD position to study the determinants of health and well-being at older ages. The focus will be on the mechanisms through which life events (e.g., retirement and caregiving) affect health and well-being and how welfare policies shape these mechanisms and outcomes. The main datasets for this project will be the GGS (Generations and Gender Surveys) and SHARE (Survey of Heath and Retirement in Europe). The position will be supervised by Prof. Anne Gauthier (NIDI-RUG) and Prof. Nardi Steverink (RUG) and will be based at NIDI in the Hague. This is a paid position for an initial duration of one year, with the possibility of an additional two years.
The UW Center for Social Science Computation and Research has opened registration for its free series of Winter Quarter courses. These classes introduce students to various statistical programming languages and prepare them for the deeper topics scheduled for later weeks. More information is available below.
Fellowships are available through the Substance Abuse Epidemiology Training Program (SAETP) at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, 722 West 168th St, New York, NY.
- Fellowships are supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Predocs receive $23,376/year + tuition & fees for 2-5 years
- Postdocs receive $43,692-$51,120/year + health benefits for 2-3 years
- Supplemental research employment is often available
- An annual travel allowance is offered for conferences and networking
- Training includes a weekly faculty-fellow seminar, courses, conferences, and instruction/mentoring in manuscripts and grant proposals (F, K and R proposals).
Getting your data in shape to do the statistical analysis is typically 90% of the time and effort of data analysis. CSDE 502 is a course designed to fill the curriculum gap between methods courses that emphasize study design and statistics courses that teach statistical analysis. It focuses on applied methods for data preparation and will introduce the following topics using Stata and R: data management and documentation, data cleaning and variable creation, sampling and complex survey design, and reproducibility. CSDE 502 (Population Proseminar) is a 2-credit course offered Winter Quarter 2017. It meets Fridays from 10:30am to 12:20pm and is open to all interested graduate students.
For more details, please see the 2017 Winter CSDE 502 Syllabus
Questions? Contact Cori Mar.
The Department of Anthropology at Union College (Schenectady, New York) seeks applicants for a one-year visiting position at the assistant professor level. We seek socio-cultural candidates whose research/teaching interests complement those of our current faculty. We are particularly interested in scholars working in the Caribbean, the Middle East, or the former Soviet Union. Topically, we seek scholars who are interested in at least one of: environmental anthropology, economic anthropology, museum studies, technology and society, tourism, and visual anthropology. But we will also consider candidates with other specialties and whose research is in other regions. Candidates with Ph.D in hand and teaching experience are preferred, but these qualifications are not required.
The University of Nevada, Reno, School of Social Work invites applications for three Clinical Assistant Professor positions from talented and committed individuals who will demonstrate excellence in teaching & service and will have an interest in building a beginning research portfolio. These positions are non-tenure-track twelve-month appointments.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: A Master’s Degree in Social Work and a Ph.D. or DSW in Social Work or closely related field; two years post-masters experience in social work practice. The ideal candidate will be able to teach across our current need in the curriculum (micro practice, HBSE, research) and across programs (BSW, MSW, and online). The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience with online teaching, and be able to work with a variety of online formats (including Canvas). This School highly values diversity and expects the ideal candidate to be well versed in the infusion of issues related to diversity and inclusion in all courses taught.
The Department of Human Science invites applications and nominations for a 12-month, tenure-track position of Assistant professor in the area of human science. The Department of Human Science has approximately 170 enrolled undergraduate students and emphasizes basic science teaching and research on human health. Areas of emphasis in the curriculum and faculty research cover all fields focusing on the determinants of human health, including: cell and molecular biology, genetics, immunology, physiology, behavioral science, and population sciences.
Interested candidates must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in these fields. Preference will be given for applicants with expertise in physiology, behavioral science or population science. The successful candidate should have a strong commitment to teaching and mentoring undergraduate students, establishing a productive extramurally-funded research program that effectively trains students, and publishing in peer reviewed journals.
Send a curriculum vitae, including a complete bibliography, a cover letter of less than two pages detailing your interest in the position and your qualifications, and contact information for three references to: Pablo Irusta, PhD, Search Committee Chair, Department of Human Science, School of Nursing & Health Studies, Georgetown University, P.O. Box 1107, 3700 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington, DC 20057-1107 or via e-mail to: pmi2@georgetown.edu . Applications will be accepted until January 15, 2017.
From High School to College: Gender, Immigrant Generation, and Race-Ethnicity
Today, over 75 percent of high school seniors aspire to graduate from college. However, only one-third of Americans hold a bachelor’s degree, and college graduation rates vary significantly by race/ethnicity and parental socioeconomic status. If most young adults aspire to obtain a college degree, why are these disparities so great? In From High School to College, Charles Hirschman analyzes the period between leaving high school and completing college for nearly 10,000 public and private school students across the Pacific Northwest.
Charles Hirschman is Boeing International Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and Governance at the University of Washington. He received his BA from Miami University (Ohio) in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1972.
Mark Long is Professor and Associate Dean for Research in the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2002.