The Latino/a Scholars Graduate School Fellowship is now accepting applications. Graduate students awarded will receive a one-time award of $1,500 for Winter quarter. The deadline is Friday, December 16 at 5 PM.

If out-of-state/non-resident students are awarded, the $1,500 will be made in bi-weekly payments. This payment method allows a student to qualify for the non-resident differential (NRD) – Students will be charged resident tuition as opposed to non-resident tuition for Winter 2017. To apply or read more about the opportunity, visit the posting below.

The Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center seeks to recruit a graduate student to join our team of talented Graduate Student Liaisons and Mentors for the Undergraduate Community-Based Internship (UCBI) program. This internship creates a venue for a graduate student to assist in the implementation of paid undergraduate community based internships in non-profit and public sector organizations concentrated in 5 neighborhood zones between the University District and the City of SeaTac.

Hours: 15-18 hours per week (orientation in Autumn Quarter, regular weekly schedule in Winter and Spring Quarters). Must be available on Tuesday evenings, 6 pm-8:00 pm, for undergraduate internship meetings.

Compensation: $19 per hour

Position Description:

In the 2015/16 academic year, the Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center partnered with the UW Career & Internship Center to develop a robust set of internship opportunities in non-profit and public sector settings for UW undergraduates. Graduate Student Liaisons and Mentors both assisted with the development of well-designed internship opportunities (in partnership with community-based organizations) and in mentoring UW undergraduates as they engaged in their internship experiences.

In the 2016/17 academic year, we are pleased to both continue this program and to expand it to serve a greater number of students and community-based organizations. As a result of this growth, we seek to hire an additional graduate student to join the team of graduate interns who worked to develop and implement UCBI last year. With the guidance of colleagues in the UW Career & Internship Center, Graduate Student Interns will provide on-going training and support for the undergraduate interns with a focus on helping them articulate their learning and skill development through a career and leadership focused lens. This internship provides a unique opportunity for graduate students at the UW to learn more about facilitating student experiences, linking experiential opportunities to career readiness and leadership development, and better understanding the strengths and challenges faced by non-profit partners and communities in the Seattle/King County area.

Qualifications:

We are looking for graduate students from a broad range of backgrounds and disciplines who have an interest in facilitating undergraduate student learning, fostering community-campus partnerships, and working towards equitable outcomes with communities. Students should be able to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing. Applicants should be excited to form a community of practice with other graduate students, interested in learning program implementation skills, and committed to understanding principles of best practice in student learning, asset based partnership development and anti-oppression work.

To Apply: To be considered, please submit the following:

• A current resume as well as the names and contact information for two references.
• A cover letter outlining why you are applying for this internship and articulating your interests in facilitating student learning, working with under-represented communities, and developing community-campus partnerships. Please also include a description of 2-3 things you seek to learn from this graduate student internship experience.

Deadline: Please submit all materials via email by 5 pm on Monday, November 21st to Rachel Vaughn, Director, Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center, rvaughn@uw.edu. Questions may be addressed to Rachel via email, or via phone at (206) 685-2705.

This Winter Quarter, JUSTICE MATTERS aims to introduce graduate and professional students from a wide range of backgrounds to some central moral questions about social structures and institutions. Discussion will center on issues of justice, broadly construed as the basic virtue of social institutions. In particular, the course will ask what it is to treat people as equals, and consider different answers to this question as proposed by (for example) utilitarians, liberals, libertarians, socialists and communitarians.  It will also illustrate the relevance of justice to various areas of social life, such as poverty, health care, human rights and global climate change. The course serves as a core course for the Graduate Certificate in Ethics (see below), but is also regularly taken independently.

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The UW Graduate Certificate in Ethics aims to facilitate graduate research in ethics as it arises across the disciplines. The program is designed to provide students with the necessary groundwork for pursuing ethics scholarship as it relates to their field of study. The curriculum is designed to accommodate diverse student interests and to facilitate cross-disciplinary conversations and scholarship. It welcomes applications to the Graduate Certificate in Ethics from graduate students across the university community. Visit the Certificate home page for more information.

The Graduate Certificate in Ethics is offered through the Program on Values in Society (POV) at the University of Washington. The program is dedicated to research, teaching, and outreach on ethical issues that arise across the disciplines. It is committed to facilitating the multidisciplinary collaboration that is essential to finding practical and insightful responses to today’s myriad moral problems. Members of the core faculty are currently working on a variety of issues, including global climate change; immigration and international justice; justice in health care; and medical practice and disability rights.

Please feel free to email ponvins@uw.edu with any questions about the program.

For 2017-2018 the Graduate School will award one-quarter fellowships to support international study or research abroad by UW graduate students. These grants are available to fund research and/or study periods of three months, corresponding to regular UW quarter dates. During the quarter of their award, fellows are required to register for study abroad through UW Study Abroad. The program fee is covered by the fellowship. Graduate students in fee-based programs are not eligible to apply. No extra money is included for airfare.

These fellowships are available to fund research and/or study periods of one quarter (three full months) abroad during the 2017-2018 year (autumn 2017 through summer 2018). These awards DO NOT support faculty-led UW study abroad programs.

In allocating these awards, priority will be given to applications that address the following:

• clear statement of the research and/or study that will be done on the fellowship;
• evidence of the relationship between the proposed study/research and the applicant’s academic program;
• evidence of the necessity to go overseas to conduct the study/research and the relevance of the university or locale to the planned research (including evidence of affiliation, if required or appropriate, to carry out the proposed project); and
• evidence of appropriate language competence.

Students who have already received a Graduate School Pembroke Award, a Graduate School Fritz or Boeing Fellowship, or Western Europe Travel Grant are ineligible to receive this fellowship. For more information and to view the application form, please visit the website below.

Nature Sustainability, a new multidisciplinary journal from Nature Research, will publish the most significant research across a wide spectrum of natural, social and engineering science: research into how we organize our lives in a finite world, into the multiple impacts our actions have, and into the solutions that will ensure well-being now and in the future.

They wish to recruit an editor for the journal to cover the socioeconomic and international development dimensions of sustainability research — they are looking for research expertise in international development, or international relations, or sociology, or human geography, or related disciplines, preferably with training in quantitative methods.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the team that will help shape and launch a new academic journal, to present a fully cross-disciplinary picture of sustainability research. Applicants should have a PhD in the relevant discipline, and preferably postdoctoral experience, with a strong research record.

The successful candidate will work closely with the Chief Editor, and with three editors from the natural and engineering sciences. Together, the Nature Sustainability team will work on all aspects of the editorial process, including manuscript selection and peer review, the commissioning and editing of Reviews and News & Views articles, and also writing for the journal.

The OECD is a global economic forum working with 35 member countries and more than 100 emerging and developing economies to make better policies for better lives. Our mission is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The Organisation provides a unique forum in which governments work together to share experiences on what drives economic, social and environmental change, seeking solutions to common problems.

The Directorate for Education and Skills (EDU) leads the Organisation’s work to help member and non-member countries achieve high-quality learning for all, design better skills policies, and turn them into jobs and growth. The Directorate carries this out by providing statistics, analysis and policy advice to countries on a wide range of educational topics.

EDU is looking for an experienced Policy Analyst to join the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Team. The selected person will be required to plan, conduct and supervise analytical work and to draft policy relevant reports, publications and other documents. S/he will work under the supervision of the lead PISA Analyst within the Division for Early Childhood and Schools (EDU/ECS) as a member of a team of analysts and researchers. More information is available below.

 

The Population Studies Center expects to have openings for postdoctoral fellows sponsored by National Institute on Aging (NIA) and The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Positions will start on or about September 1, 2017. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in demography, public health, or one of the social sciences (e.g., sociology, economics, psychology) at the starting date.

For additional information on this position (including how to apply), visit the link below.

The PAA Affairs newsletter critically requires additional material from you, the PAA membership. Talk about book releases, new positions, or upcoming conferences. They’d like to hear about the release of new data, interesting training/courses, jobs, and short essays about how your research was utilized. Also, please limit your submissions to about 250 words and include a URL, if relevant, so everyone can learn more.

NEW! They are also interested in three new features:

1. Research to Policy: items of up to 750 words on how research was used to inform or design policy.
2. Thought pieces of fields, trends, or innovations in population studies, of up to 750 words.
3. Data points: An interesting chart (jpeg or gif) with 250 words of explanation.

Due to space constraints and the incredible scientific productivity of this community, they have chosen not to publish simple lists of journal articles published. If you are not sure if your news is newsworthy, just ask.

Please send your materials to either of the co-editors, Leora Lawton and Emily Merchant, by December 5, 2016.

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This seminar introduces Bayesian Poisson Tucker decomposition (BPTD) for modeling country–country interaction event data. These data consist of interaction events of the form “country i took action a toward country j at time t.” BPTD discovers overlapping country–community memberships, including the number of latent communities. In addition, it discovers directed community–community interaction networks that are specific to “topics” of action types and temporal “regimes.” The presentation shows that BPTD yields an efficient MCMC inference algorithm and achieves better predictive performance than related models. It also demonstrates that it discovers interpretable latent structure that agrees with our knowledge of international relations.