EVENTS
Wednesday, Sept 13, 12-1:15 PM. Demography Brown Bag: John Palmer, Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, “Social Inequality and Disease-Vector Mosquitoes: An Interspecies Feedback Loop.” Demography Seminar room.  2232 Piedmont Ave.  Refreshments and cookies served. 
Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience. 

Tuesday, September 13, 5-7 PM.  Is sugar making us sick? A panel discussion with Janet King, Senior Scientist, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute; Dr. Ronald Krausse, Senior Scientist and Dolores Jordan Endowed Chair, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute; Dr. Kristine Madsen, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health; Gary Taubes, Cofounder and Senior Scientific Advisor, Nutrition Science Initiative; and moderated by  Dr. John Swartzberg, Clinical Professor, Emeritus, UC Berkeley School of Public Health. David Brower Center, Goldman Theater, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA.  Register online.

Wednesday September 13 | 4-5:30 p.m. Burning Dislike: Ethnic Violence in High Schools, a book by Martin Sanchez-Jankowski. 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room.

EVENTS
Wednesday, September 6 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. Demography Brown Bag: “Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending” with Rucker Johnson, GSPP, Demography Seminar room.  2232 Piedmont Ave.  Refreshments and cookies served. 
Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience. 

Tuesday, September 5, 12:40-2 PM. “The Role of Supply and Demand in Efficient Health Care Delivery: Evidence From Utah” with Ben Handel. 714C University Hall

Wednesday, Sept 6, 3-4 PM.  “Delaying the age of marriage through girls’ education in northern Nigeria” with Dr. Mardhiyyah Abbas Mashi, Co-Founder, Centre for Girls’ Education; Margaret Bolaji, Program Officer, Centre for Girls’ Education | 401 University Hall. 

EVENTS
Monday, August 28, 2-3:30 PM.  Save Our Senior Non-Citizens: The Extension of Old Age Assistance to Immigrants in the United States, 1935-1971, with Cybelle Fox. 402 Barrows Hall. 

Monday, August 28, 2-3:30 PM: “Racial Bias in Bail Decisions” with Will Dobbie, Princeton University 648 Evans Hall

August 31 | 5-7 p.m. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States. With Dr. Mike Merson, Wolfgang Joklik Professor of Global Health, Duke University and Amie Batson, Chief Strategy Officer; Vice President, Strategy and Learning, PATH. Moderator: Lia Fernald, Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health. | David Brower Center, Goldman Theater, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

September 1 | 12-1 p.m. Labor Lunch Seminar: “Top Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap” with Nicole Fortin, The University of British Columbia. | 648 Evans Hall

FUNDING

Interdisciplinary Working Groups:  IRLE just issued a call for proposals (see below) but know also that the Popcenter will similarly fund events with this purpose. 

IRLE (Institute for Research on Labor and Employment) is accepting funding proposals from faculty, students, and campus researchers for interdisciplinary working groups to explore themes relating to labor and employment in 2017-18. The goal of this program is to foster scholarly dialogue across departments, promote collaborative research projects, and build a foundation for interdisciplinary conversations on important themes relating to labor and working life. Awards range from $500 – $1,000 for the academic year. Funds may be used for materials, meeting expenses, conference hosting, honoraria for speakers, and other research and education expenses. IRLE will also provide the following in-kind support to groups:

· Space (three meeting rooms, informal gathering space, and work spaces)

· Event support (publicity, logistics, planning) 

· Grant application support

Our goal is to help sustain working groups for multiple years and support pursuit of additional funding for collaborative research and educational activities. Upon completion of an annual report detailing their first year, groups are eligible to apply for a second year of increased funding in 2018-19. 

FUNDING

Interdisciplinary Working Groups:  IRLE just issued a call for proposals (see below) but know also that the Popcenter will similarly fund events with this purpose. 

IRLE (Institute for Research on Labor and Employment) is accepting funding proposals from faculty, students, and campus researchers for interdisciplinary working groups to explore themes relating to labor and employment in 2017-18. The goal of this program is to foster scholarly dialogue across departments, promote collaborative research projects, and build a foundation for interdisciplinary conversations on important themes relating to labor and working life. Awards range from $500 – $1,000 for the academic year. Funds may be used for materials, meeting expenses, conference hosting, honoraria for speakers, and other research and education expenses. IRLE will also provide the following in-kind support to groups:

· Space (three meeting rooms, informal gathering space, and work spaces)

· Event support (publicity, logistics, planning) 

· Grant application support

Our goal is to help sustain working groups for multiple years and support pursuit of additional funding for collaborative research and educational activities. Upon completion of an annual report detailing their first year, groups are eligible to apply for a second year of increased funding in 2018-19. 

OFF CAMPUS EVENTS

July 23, 2017. “NIA Workshop on Innovative Issues in Minority Aging Research”: Reversibility and Mutability Research: Approaches to Reducing Health Disparities, a NIA/Resource Centers on Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) Workshop. The RCMAR National Coordinating Center invites you to register for the RCMAR workshop on July 23, 2017. It is held as a preconference session at the 21st IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics meeting located at the Moscone West 747 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. The workshop provides a forum for junior and senior researchers to discuss the complex issues and potential benefits of reversibility research. The keynote speaker is Andrea Danese, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Other presenters include national leaders in the field. Visithttp://www.rcmar.ucla.edu/content/rcmar-preconference  for the workshop program and details, or go directly to IAGG’s Preconference Workshop webpage to register.
 

The Third Annual Summer Workshop in Formal Demography was held June 5-9, 2017. It was our most successful workshop, with a special emphasis on fertility, a group project, and ample time for learning and hands on practice of new methods, talks about fertility and a lively networking social time. Announcements for the Fourth Annual workshop […]

OFF CAMPUS EVENTS

Presenting: Medicine and the Radical Divide with  is a Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.  Tuesday, June 20th, 2017, 3:30-5:00pm. Location: Gay Becker Conference Room, Suite 340, UCSF Laurel Heights Campus. Click here to RSVP.  Join the web meeting: Audio Only Dial-In: 415-514-1000; Access Code: 993 702 295.

The Berkeley Forum on Aging and the Global Economy (BerkeleyAGE), a new initiative at UC Berkeley designed to forecast the economic implications of global population trends in order to help corporations, governments, nonprofits, industry groups, and the media understand and navigate challenges in a new era of unprecedented population aging, has released its first report, […]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS    The American Sociological Association: Research on Effects of Campus Carry. Since 2004, 10 states have passed laws allowing concealed handguns on college campuses in some form or another, and in 2014 alone 14 states submitted similar legislation. Such legislation can potentially have great impact on sociologists and their work. As such, ASA is accepting proposals for research to study the possible effects of guns in classrooms.  Awards of up to $8,000 are available to ASA members who have PhDs. Deadline is July 31.  For more information: http://www.asanet.org/career-center/grants-and-fellowships/campus-carry.