The public session of the Urban Food-Energy-Water Summit will be held on Friday, November 18, from 8:30-11:00am at the Brightwater Center. This summit is an opportunity to share early research findings and engage in a continued conversation about how to best monitor and manage interlinked food, energy and water resources for a resilient, sustainable food future. Groups will share a synthesis report from interviews conducted over the summer with 27 stakeholders including local food producers, consumer representatives, policy makers, and energy and water resource managers. A downloadable version of the synthesis report is available on the project website.

The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), located at the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, is currently accepting applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in computational biology with an interest in using systems approaches to solve problems in cell biology, cancer biology, immunology or development biology.

An applicant may propose to use modeling, simulation, or analysis to produce useful biological information and concepts that current theories cannot provide. The proposed study should address biological problems involving complexity and dynamics of networks at molecular and/or cellular levels. Examples of the biological topics include, but are not limited to:

• Cell cycle progression, cellular senescence, cell differentiation and death.
• Plasticity of cells during development or cancer progression.
• Cancer metastasis and dormancy.
• Dynamical response of immune system (including response to viral infection).
• Development of immune cells.
• Embryonic development.
• General theories concerning biological networks.

Examples of the proposed computational methods include, but are not limited to:

• Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE), Partial Differential Equation (PDE), and stochastic methods.
• Multiscale modeling.
• Spatiotemporal dynamical modeling.
• Parameter optimization.
• Analysis using bifurcation theory, landscape theory, and parameter-free methods.
• Processing of omics data for dynamical modeling (e.g., genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic data).
• Integration of multiscale data for dynamical modeling (e.g. transcriptomic, epigenomic, subcellular, cellular data).

Support: annual stipend of $51,000, full University of Tennessee employee fringe benefits, and an annual travel allowance of $3,000.

Population Research and Policy Review (PRPR) welcomes proposals for its Special Issue 2018. PRPR intends to publish one Special Issue (SI) each year. This SI will include around five empirical papers together with an introductory editorial that provides a more overarching (theoretical) synthesis of the individual contributions.

The proposal for the SI should be made by the expected guest editor(s) and submitted to the editors-in-chief of PRPR (Lynne Cossman and Jennifer Glick). The proposal must include:

• the title of the special issue
• the names and affiliations of the guest editor(s)
• the names and affiliations of the contributing authors
• a one page summary of the theme, overarching aim, timeliness and innovativeness of the SI for publication in PRPR. It should be shown that the different papers fit together as a coherent SI.
• all titles and (half page) abstracts of the SI paper contributions

The SI proposals will be evaluated by the editorial team of PRPR. If the proposal is selected, the process of evaluating the contributions will follow the regular review procedure of PRPR while the guest editor(s) will take the responsibility of editor(s) of the SI manuscripts. Depending on number and quality of the SI proposals that are submitted in this call, the editorial team may decide to accept one proposal (for 2018), and up to two more for the two sequential years to come. However, in case the editorial team judges that none of the proposals meet the quality standards of the journal, it can also be decided that none of the suggested proposals will be accepted for further development and production.

Once the editorial team of PRPR approves the proposal, the guest editor(s) will be informed of the time line for the production process. The guest editor(s) will from then on be the primary contact person(s) for the contributors to the SI and should inform them about deadlines for submission and further procedures. The full papers for the SI should be uploaded in Editorial Manager (the online submission system) and handled from there by the guest editor(s) who is(are) expected to manage the review process. The editorial office of PRPR will assist if needed.

Each paper for the SI will be evaluated by three anonymous reviewers. The guest editorial will not be sent out to external reviewers, but will be evaluated by the editorial team of PRPR. After the reviewers’ reports have been received, the guest editor(s) decide(s) on the manuscript and inform(s) the authors as well as sets the deadlines for the revised papers to be received. It may occur that one or more of the papers is rejected based on reviewer reports. At this stage the editors-in-chief will be informed about the outcome and, if necessary, make a joint decision on how to proceed. The guest editor is responsible for ensuring that all papers are of sufficiently high quality and form a coherent set of papers for the SI.

The Center for Creative Conservation invites proposals for transdisciplinary project Incubators on any cross-cutting topic related to conservation and sustainability from groups of practitioners and University of Washington researchers. Incubators convene multisectoral teams in a series of start-up meetings to encourage effective and creative conservation problem solving.  Letters of inquiry are due November 10, 2016.

Job ID: 12529

Institution: Princeton University

Department: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies

For additional information on this position (including how to apply), visit the ASA Job Bank at http://jobbank.asanet.org.

You are invited to consider submitting a paper to Sub-Theme 21: Migration and Inclusion, at the 2017 EGOS colloquium in Copenhagen, July 6-8, 2017. This sub-theme continues the conversation started in EGOS Colloquium 2015 on migration, work, and organizations. It focuses on a grand challenge that has emerged as one of the crucial unresolved problems of our time–the peaceful and productive co-existence of migrants and other members of organizations and societies.

The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program is now accepting applications for the 2017 DHS Fellows Program. The DHS Fellows Program, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is designed to increase the capacity of countries to conduct further analysis of DHS data.

Applications must be from teams comprised of three faculty members from the same university who teach in departments of demography, public health, economics, sociology, geography, or other social sciences. The team strongly encourages faculty members in relevant departments who are interested in quantitative research in the areas of family planning, reproductive health, fertility, maternal and child health, sexual behavior, HIV/AIDS, or gender issues to apply.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks to advance systemic changes that embed health in school environments. To help advance these systemic changes, the Foundation will support a collaborative, multipronged strategy with three complementary areas of work related to Research, Policy, and Strategic Action. This Call for Qualifications (CFQ) represents Phase I of a two-phase selection process designed to identify eligible organizations to lead each area of work, which include:

• Applied Research and Translation (one to two grants awarded) to use research to facilitate the implementation of practices and policies that generate healthy, safe, and nurturing school climates that help to reduce health disparities.
• Policy Analysis and Development (one to two grants awarded) to identify and elevate effective and equitable policies that generate healthy, safe, and nurturing school climates that help to reduce health disparities.
• Strategic Action and Alignment (one lead grantee with core partners) to expand support from decision-makers, practitioners, and other key stakeholders who will ultimately be responsible for establishing and supporting policy, implementing best practices, and embracing school-change efforts that address the real conditions that support or impede children’s health and learning.

Visit the link below for more information and application instructions.