Registration is now open for the 26th Annual Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) conference. Workshops and presentations will be offered all day that speak to the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) educational and career opportunities as well as professional and personal development. Women scholars of science and engineering at all levels are encouraged to attend. There are great opportunities to network and explore.
If you or your department has not participated in the past, this conference is focused toward the woman scholar who is interested in and/or pursuing engineering and science from high school through graduate level and beyond. Here is a list of ways we invite our campus community and departments to be involved in the conference:
- Share with your department students and encourage them to attend the conference.
- Sponsor registration for students in your department to attend. Student registration is $25 per student.
- Provide general conference sponsorship at $100 minimum:
- This includes participation in the conference Career Resource fair (CRF) by having a 6X6 (and two chairs) department information table. CRF Time: 12:00 – 1:30. Lunch will be included for up to two volunteers. If additional student or staff volunteers would like to volunteer at your table, the cost is $20 and you may register them as a student.
For your convenience, department and student sponsorship registration can be completed online at the link below.
- UW departments registration Access code: DAWGS2017 (not case sensitive).
- Please note the on-line registration will close Saturday, January 28th, 2017. There will be no on-site registration.
WiSE appreciates our campus departments’ financial and in-kind support in previous years and is looking forward to your continued participation. Any inquiries about the conference registration process may be directed to Katherine Glesser.
David Sharrow, former CSDE Trainee and UW Sociology graduate, and James Anderson, CSDE Affiliate and UW Professor at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, have an article in the next issue of Demography about their research quantifying factors affecting human longevity. The study applies a two-process vitality model to data from the Human Mortality Database in hopes of more fully understanding the contributors to recent declines in mortality processes. The article is available ahead of publication at the link below.
The sociology department at Pacific University in Forest Grove, OR invites applications for a full-time, one-year (with possibility of renewal) Visiting Assistant Professor in the undergraduate sociology program beginning in the Fall 2017. The teaching load is 24 credits per year, which is typically six four-credit courses. Individuals will be expected to teach at least two sections of Social Statistics (SOC 301) and one section of Survey Research (SOC 302). The other courses will be in the general sociology curriculum and/or the candidate’s areas of expertise. All areas of expertise will be considered, but preference will be given to candidates with expertise in social stratification, urban sociology, and/or environmental sociology.
CSDE Affiliate and UW Associate Professor of Sociology Alexes Harris has made waves with her book, A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor. The work sheds light on the weighty fees states saddle atop those least able to shoulder them. A Pound of Flesh was recently profiled in-depth by The American Prospect alongside another key publications on poverty. Columnist Adam Reich unpacks many of Harris’s key findings throughout the article. To read the full story, visit the link below.
This announces the call for nominations for the 2017 Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award. Named for the late Graduate School Dean Marsha L. Landolt, the UW Graduate School has recognized excellent faculty mentors annually since 1999.
The Graduate School, with assistance from the President’s Office, sponsors this annual award in order to recognize outstanding mentoring of graduate students by faculty. The relationship between a graduate student and a faculty advisor is one that can have a profound, lifelong influence on both parties. At its best, this mentoring relationship inspires and gives confidence to the student while providing the faculty member with a valued colleague. The Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award allows us to honor those members of the faculty who exemplify excellence in graduate education. A single award, accompanied by $5,000 in discretionary funds that may be used to support the awardee’s scholarly activities, will be given and presented at the annual Awards of Excellence Ceremony in June 2017 in conjunction with other University-wide awards.
Questions about the Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award or nomination procedures may be directed to graddean@uw.edu.
Again this spring, UW will recognize 100 outstanding UW students who are making the most of their time at the UW. Please help in finding the next Husky 100. Anyone — faculty, staff, students, community members, alumni — may formally nominate up to 10 students.
Nominations from faculty and staff are invaluable in encouraging students to apply — over 70 percent of the first Husky 100 cohort received a nomination. Current UW juniors, seniors or graduate students on any of our three campuses are eligible.
This year, the online system limits nominations to 10 per person; so those who wish to nominate more than 10 may contact individual students directly to encourage them to apply. Nominations are due Jan. 8, 2017. Once nominated, the student fills out the application online, which is open now. Students also may apply directly themselves, without being nominated. All student applications are due Jan. 23, 2017.
These 100 students will be recognized at an event in spring and have opportunities in the 2017–18 academic year to expand their networks with UW students, alumni, faculty staff and business leaders.
The University of Washington Retirement Association has endowed a fellowship to support graduate students of outstanding academic merit who have a demonstrated academic and personal interest in aging-related issues or concerns.
This fellowship will provide a monthly stipend equivalent to the PDTA 2 level (currently $2,572/month), GAIP health insurance, and a waiver of a maximum of 18 credits of state-tuition (except for U-PASS fee and international student fee). The fellowship must be used in 2017-18 academic year.
At the time of application, students must be matriculated in a UW graduate degree tuition-based program and not in their last year of study. (Students in fee-based programs are not eligible.) The recipient of the award must be enrolled in full-time credits (at least 10) during the quarter in which he/she takes the fellowship.
Please visit the website below for further information. Detailed on that page are also the application requirements and process (statements, letters of recommendation, etc.) as well as criteria for selection.
The selected recipient(s) will be invited to attend the UWRA luncheon in spring 2017. They will also be asked to give an informal presentation to UWRA members on their research/academic and personal interests related to aging during the year of the award.
The Third Annual Berkeley Formal Demography Workshop – Special Emphasis Topic: Fertility Patterns over Time, to be held Monday-Friday, JUNE 5-9, 2017 at the University of California campus. Join us for an educational program designed to train the next generation of population researchers in the methods in formal demography. This week-long program, with funding by NICHD R25HD083136 at Berkeley consists of three days of hands-on training followed by two days of research presentations by invited faculty. Following the meeting, students may choose to take part in a mentored research project and a capstone presentation of projects at the 2018 Population Association of America annual meeting. The workshop is targeted to advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, assistant professors and other early career researchers. We are particularly interested in supporting underrepresented minorities. Those studying aspects of fertility, family, and public health will particularly benefit, but those with other interests should also apply.
Financial Support: Trainees’ expenses for materials, lodging and meals will be covered. Need-based support for travel is available. We regret that we cannot cover travel from outside the United States. Application materials and more information about the program and formal demography can be found on the Workshop website. For more information, contact Dr. Leora Lawton, Executive Director, Berkeley Population Center.
The 24th annual RAND Summer Institute (RSI) will take place in Santa Monica, CA, July 10-13, 2017. The RSI consists of two conferences addressing critical issues facing our aging population: a Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists (July 10-11) and a Workshop on the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging (July 12-13). The primary aim of the RSI is to expose scholars interested in the study of aging to a wide range of research being conducted in fields beyond their own specialties. Participants attend a series of master lectures given by expert clinicians and researchers, drawn from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. These lectures are intended to offer insights into both the science of aging and the interrelationship of health, economic status, and public policy on the aging field.
The conferences are sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Scientists Research, and will convene at the RAND Corporation headquarters.
Qualified Institute applicants must hold a Ph.D. or have completed two years of a Ph.D. program and be actively working on a dissertation. Only applicants working in the field of aging – or actively considering this research field – will be considered.