When: Friday, November 21 at 12:30 pm

Where: Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom

We are looking forward to hosting CSDE Affiliate Hyungmin Cha from the University of Washington on Friday, November 21 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative.

Education is one of the strongest predictors of dementia, but its influence extends well beyond whether individuals develop the condition. In this talk, Cha synthesizes three projects that examine how education shapes the functional form, timing, and cumulative duration of dementia experiences. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study, Cha shows that (1) dementia risk declines linearly with additional years of schooling, with a notable threshold reduction at high school completion; (2) education postpones dementia onset and reduces variability in its timing, such that college-educated adults experience both later and more predictable onset; and (3) higher life-course socioeconomic status extends dementia-free life expectancy and compresses the years lived with dementia. 

CSDE Affiliate Kristian Jones (Social Work) just published a new article, “Friends in Our Lives: Perspectives of Young People Who Participated in a Professional Mentoring Program,” in the Journal of Applied Youth Studies. Despite the emerging utilization of professional mentoring programs, little is known about the ideal characteristics of a professional mentor and young people’s experiences in these professional mentoring programs. Jones and co-authors interviewed 12 young people who participated in the same professional mentoring program in different regions of the United States.

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CSDE Affiliate Mia M. Bennett (Geography) has released a new book, Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic, published by Yale University Press. Together with co-author Klaus Dodds, Bennett examines the state of the Arctic today–emphasizing the twin dangers of climate change and geopolitical competition.  Unfrozen reveals how the region is becoming a space of experimentation for everything from Indigenous governance to subsea technologies.

CSDE Affiliate Maria Bleil (Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing) has been awarded an NIH grant “Improving health among disadvantaged girls to slow pubertal onset and reduce long-term health risks”, which tests whether positive health behavior change among prepubertal girls may lesson risk for earlier pubertal onset and associated cardiometabolic outcomes. Dr. Bleil has also been awarded, along with Dr. Rui Li (PI), an NIH grant “Understanding the role of early life social determinants and sex-specific pubertal pathways in the development of adolescent chronic pain”, which focuses on puberty in relation to chronic pain. 

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We are pleased to announce that CSDE Director, Sara Curran, has been elected to serve as the North America Representative on the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) Council for the 2026–2029 term. In this role, she will help guide IUSSP’s scientific agenda, foster collaboration among population researchers, and represent the interests of members across North America.

When: November 19, 2025 from 10 – 11 am

Where: Raitt 223 and on Zoom

On November 19, CSDE’s Computational Demography Working Group will host Dr. Ilan Strauss and Sruly Rosenblat from the AI Disclosures Project housed at the Social Science Research Council. Strauss and Rosenblat will present on, “Can Membership Inference Attacks Detect Paywalled Content in LLM Training Data? Lessons and limitations.” 

Join the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) for its annual Academic & Policy Symposium, “Witness to Hope: Promoting Just & Humane Migration Policies”, on Monday, November 17, 2025.

With anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies on the rise in the US and globally, how can evidence-based research help us understand and counter these narratives? Join leading scholars for a discussion on understanding the dynamics of anti-immigrant sentiment, as well as strategies to change public opinion and advance more humane policy responses.

IAPHS invites you to join How-To Tuesday, a new 45-minute webinar series designed to deliver clear, actionable guidance on topics that matter most to population health professionals. Whether you’re looking to sharpen your time management, navigate journal reviews, or set a research agenda, How-To Tuesday brings you the tools to thrive. Register here.

Upcoming Sessions Include:

• November 18 – “How to Define Your Research Agenda” with Jennifer Karas Montez
• December 2 – “How to Communicate Your Research to Non-Scientists”

Award amount: $150,000 (Canadian)

OR internal deadline: 11/5/2025

UW OSP deadline: 11/20/2025

Sponsor deadline: 12/1/2025

Program description: NAPCEA is calling for proposals from organizations to support projects that will help North American communities implement circular economy initiatives and strategies to improve local well-being and the environment. The way resources are being extracted, used and then disposed of in the current linear economy model is putting pressure on natural systems, communities and public health. A circular economy shifts toward sustainable production and consumption patterns by improving management and efficient use of materials and resources throughout their life cycles (from extraction to recovery). (read more)

The conference will be held in hybrid format.

Migration is a highly debated yet divisive topic in today’s public and policy discourse. In low fertility societies, migration is the main driver of population change and is essential for maintaining a stable labour force. Although it is often presented in simplistic terms, migration is a complex phenomenon shaped by the interplay of multiple drivers and barriers,

The National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families has just opened the application period for its fellowship program for early career investigators researching economic well-being or early care and education (ECE) among Hispanic children and families in the United States. The program will provide seed research funds and valuable mentoring experiences to early career investigators. Fellows will receive $7,000 for use in research and professional development activities. More information can be found on our website.

The University of Washington Research and Engagement on Adaptation for Climate and Health (REACH) Center is accepting applications to the Implementation and Evaluation Fellowship until November 28. The Fellowship provides teams of fellows with $60,000 of funding and training to conduct an implementation science project to evaluate or improve the uptake of a climate and health-related project or program. Fellows apply and participate as teams of 2-3 public health or healthcare practitioners and researchers.

The call for papers is now open for the upcoming conference “Kinship Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities,” which will take place on June 8-9, 2026 at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany. The event is organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities; MPIDR; NYU Abu Dhabi; Pennsylvania State University; and the National University of Singapore. Extended abstracts (maximum two pages, PDF) must be submitted via the conference website by January 12.

The Young Scientist Summer Program (YSSP) at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), is currently accepting applications to its 2026 program. The closing date is January 12, 2026 at midnight CET.

The program, which takes place from June to August, is designed for PhD students (ideally about 2 years prior to receiving their PhD) working on a topic compatible with ongoing research at IIASA and a wish to explore the policy implications of their work.

Abstract submissions are now open for the 2026 Data-Intensive Research Conference. The 2026 conference theme is Novel Data Linkages and Innovative Life Course Research. Enriching population data through data linkage creates novel data sources that can shed light on life course processes. Linking across time allows for the examination of transitions and trajectories and linking to contextual information situates the experiences of individuals and populations in their environments. Review the call for proposals and submit an abstract.

Award amount: $200,000

Sponsor deadline: 03/11/2026

Program description: The Russell Sage Foundation’s (RSF) program on Social, Political, and Economic Inequality supports innovative research on the factors that contribute to social, political, and economic inequalities in the U.S., and the extent to which those inequalities affect social, political, psychological, and economic outcomes such as educational and labor market access and opportunities, social and economic mobility within and across generations, and civic participation and representation.

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Award amount: $100,000

Sponsor deadline: 04/01/2026

Program description: The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF), in collaboration with the Criminal Justice program at Arnold Ventures (AV) is pleased to announce its first annual grants competition for early-career scholars. Our goal is to cultivate a pipeline of researchers conducting causal research on the criminal justice system. Criminal justice policies and practices include the work of police, courts, jails, prisons, probation and parole, and immigration detention. 

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IPUMS USA

IPUMS USA has extended MET2023, which identifies 2023 metropolitan areas, to the 2012-2021 ACS/PRCS samples. A new variable, METPOP20, reports the 2020 population of 2023 metropolitan and micropolitan areas. We have also made several revisions, including capturing additional multigenerational households in MULTGEN and expanding the property tax and utility cost variables (PROPTX99, PROPINSR, COSTGAS, COSTFUEL,  COSTWATR) to ensure that IPUMS top codes match Census Bureau top codes.

IPUMS HEALTH SURVEYS

IPUMS MEPS now offers data from the 2023 MEPS sample. This release includes 1,100 variables from the Full Year Consolidated, Condition, Event, Prescribed Medicine, Appendix to the Event, and Pooled Variance files. New variables added with this release include information about COVID and Long COVID at the round level.

The Population Research Center at Portland State University, directed by CSDE External Affiliate Ethan Sharygin (Portland State University), has published a resource guide for finding federal data during the shutdown.  These sources include Census Reporter, Esri, PolicyMap, IPUMS, NHGIS, and the Data Rescue Project Portal.

The Mobility and Migration Modeling Intercomparison Project (3MIP) invites you to join a new initiative to advance the modeling of migration and mobility in the context of climate change.

Over the past decades, migration modeling capacity has expanded considerably, with diverse approaches including ABM, IAM, Gravity, Radiation, and others. Similar to how model intercomparison projects (MIPs) such as AgMIP and ISIMIP have strengthened agricultural and climate modeling, 3MIP aims to improve the robustness, comparability, and usability of migration models. By standardizing methods, characterizing uncertainties, and setting shared benchmarks, we hope to build a foundation for stronger science and policy applications.

Social researchers are invited to join a global community of scholars, educators, and practitioners dedicated to advancing research and practice on work, family, and well-being. You can learn more about the WFRN at this link. Their upcoming conference will focus on caregiving across the life course. More about the 2026 conference can be found at this link.