The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Urban Geography with expertise in one of the following areas at the intra-urban/suburban scale: (1) population and immigration, (2) ethnicity and race, and/or (3) health geography. The position will begin August 2017. Required qualifications include: (1) PhD in Geography or related field; (2) the ability to develop and maintain an externally funded research program; (3) the ability to contribute to undergraduate and graduate programming consistent with departmental needs; (4) ability to contribute to the department’s interdisciplinary teaching and research missions.
West Coast Poverty Center Seminar: Immediate Impacts of the City of Seattle Minimum Wage Ordinance
CSDE Affiliate Mark Long will answer questions and discuss possible implications of Seattle’s Minimum-Wage legislation.
Abstract: This paper uses administrative records from the State of Washington’s Employment Security Department to estimate the short-run impact of Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance on the number and hours worked in low-wage jobs, and the effects on wage, employment, hours, and earnings of Seattle workers who were earning low wages at the time of passage. We provide estimates for the impacts through the end of 2015, which was nine months after the ordinance went into effect on April 1, 2015, and during a period in which the minimum wage was increased from $9.47 (as set by the state of Washington) to $11 (as set by the City of Seattle).
2017 Bonderman Fellowship
The 2017 Bonderman Travel Fellowship application is now available! This fellowship offers University of Washington graduate/professional and undergraduate students (from the Seattle, Tacoma, and Bothell campuses) an opportunity to engage in independent exploration and travel abroad.
The first information session is Wednesday, 11/2, 12:30-1:30 pm in the Allen Auditorium, Allen Library.
David Bonderman – the donor – wishes to give students an opportunity to experience learning and growth in new and unexpected ways. Bonderman Fellows will undertake international travel on their own for eight months, to six or more countries in two or more major regions of the world. Through solo travel the Fellows will focus on exploration and discovery, learning about the world and themselves in it.
Up to seven graduate and seven undergraduate Bonderman Fellowships will be awarded in spring 2017. Each Fellowship carries a $20,000 award to be used only for extended solo international travel. Fellows may not conduct research, pursue an academic project, or participate in a formal program or organization.
Mark Long Talks Minimum Wage with Yakima Herald
With Washington poised to vote on Initiative 1433 this month, more eyes are turning to research on the impact of raising the minimum wage. Mark Long, CSDE Affiliate and UW Professor of Public Policy, co-authored a recent study on Seattle’s experiments with such legislation. He helped qualify the findings with the Yakima Herald recently, explaining why the study’s authors have opted to not take a public position on I-1433. Read on for Long’s statement and a additional discussion of how a change to the minimum wage could impact the regional economy.
Associate Professor – International Political Economy
The School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego invites applications for an advanced tenure-track Associate Professor position in the area of international political economy to begin July 1, 2017.
Applicants should be PhD graduates in economics or political science with an established record of scholarly productivity. The successful candidate will have a background in the field of political economy with a focus on international issues and mastery of theoretical methods and modelling. GPS has a special interest in candidates whose range of teaching is relevant for professional master’s students in public policy and international affairs. Applicants must have already completed a PhD.
Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Science
The Department of Human Development and Family Science at the University of Missouri has an opening for a 9-month tenure-track assistant professor whose research program and teaching expertise emphasizes early childhood development and education. Preference will be given to candidates with expertise in early childhood (ages 0-5) programs and curricula, teacher-child interactions, teaching practices and methods, observation and assessment, teaching diverse learners, and/or policy. Candidates are expected to be active researchers, seek external funding, and teach undergraduate and graduate courses. The start date is August, 2017. An earned doctorate is required at the time of hire. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications. Applications will be reviewed starting Nov. 1 and continue until the position is filled. Applicants from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.
Adrian Dobra Published in AIDS
Adrian Dobra, CSDE Affiliate and Associate Professor of Statistics at UW, has an articles in the upcoming issue of the journal AIDS. Dobra’s study focused on HIV transmission and migration patterns in rural South Africa in hopes of uncovering a relationship between the two. His team’s in-depth analysis of a population cohort in a rural sub-Saharan African population has revealed a clear non-linear relationship between distance migrated and HIV acquisition. The findings show that even relatively short distance migration events confer substantial additional risk of acquisition. Check out the report details below.
Martina Morris Awarded NIAID Grant
Martina Morris, CSDE Affiliate and Blumstein-Jordan professor of sociology and statistics at the University of Washington, was awarded a 2-year, $424,875 R21 grant from NIAID this summer. The research project aims to narrow the gap between generalized epidemic models and the local epidemic treatment plans they inspire. Specifically, Morris’s work focuses on HIV transmission in King County in hopes of establishing an effective parameterized HIV transmission model for regional public health planning purposes.
Morris is collaborating with UW faculty Matthew Golden (Epidemiology, School of Public Health) and Sara Glick as well as Roxanne Kerani (Division of Allergy & Infectious Disease, School of Medicine).
Introduction to Graphics in R
CSDE is offering a two hour workshop on using the basic graphics package in R (https://www.r-project.org/). It assumes prior experience with R.
Thursday October 27, 2016
10:30am – 12:30pm
Savery 121
Visit the link below to register!
Population Research Discovery Seminar: Sigal Alon
Race, Class, and Affirmative Action
Race, Class and Affirmative Action (The Russell Sage Foundation, 2015) evaluates the ability of class-based affirmative action to promote the social and economic mobility of disadvantaged populations and boost diversity at selective postsecondary institutions, as compared with race-based policy. The book draws from within- and between-country comparisons of several prototypes of affirmative action policy. It uses the United States as a case study of race-based preferences, and Israel as a case study of class-based preferences. For each country the model that has actually been implemented is compared to a simulated scenario of the alternative policy type. The develops new, and more global insights about the potential of race-neutral public policy to promote equality in higher education.
Dr. Alon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University. Her main research interests include social stratification and mobility, with an emphasis on the sociology of education. Her work focuses on unveiling the dynamics and historical processes underlying class, gender, and racial-ethnic inequalities in educational attainment, and the extent to which do admission, retention, affirmative action and financial aid policies in higher education narrow these inequalities. Alon’s perspective is interdisciplinary and comparative, taking into account educational processes and outcomes, institutional arrangements and social structures, psychological biases, as well as demographic and economic trends. Dr. Alon has published in leading journals in sociology, education and economics and her research has been supported by grants from the Spencer Foundation, the American Educational Research Association, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Texas Higher Educational Opportunity Project, and Yad Hanadiv.