EVENTS
January 30, 12-1:10 PM. Demography Brown Bag. Ronald Lee (Demography, UC Berkeley) will present, “Production and Reproduction: Life History Strategies for Females in Humans and Other Species.” Demography Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Ave. Coffee and cookies served.
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/
EVENTS
January 30, 12-1:10 PM. Demography Brown Bag. Ronald Lee (Demography, UC Berkeley) will present, “Production and Reproduction: Life History Strategies for Females in Humans and Other Species.” Demography Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Ave. Coffee and cookies served.
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/
January 30 | 12 p.m. “The Securitization of Migration and Racial Sorting in Fortress Europe.” Maartje van der Woude, Leiden Law School (Netherlands)| 201 Moses Hall.
Monday, 2-3:30 pm. “Immigrants and the Law: Crafting Moral Selves in the Face of Immigration Control” with Amada Armenta, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. 410 Barrows Hall.
Monday, January 28 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. “From family research to family policy” Phil and Carolyn Cowan, Institute of Human Development. 1102 Berkeley Way West
January 29, 2019, 12:10 – 1:30 p.m., “The Socio-Economic Consequences of Housing Assistance” Winnie van Dijk, Chicago Economics. Evans Hall, room 648.
January 31 12:10-1:30 PM. “The Microeconomics of Social Welfare Programs: Client Need and the Provision of Care” with Dr. Leonard Miller. Haviland Hall, Commons/116
January 30 | 12 p.m. “The Securitization of Migration and Racial Sorting in Fortress Europe” Maartje van der Woude, Leiden Law School (Netherlands). | 201 Moses Hall
SAVE THE DATE
Feb 8 2:00 – 3:00 PM. “A planet-scale playground for data scientists – Google Maps Earth” Luiz André Barroso and Matt Hancher, Google. 190 Doe Library (BIDS)
FUNDING
The Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD), a National Institute on Aging funded Alzheimer’s Disease-related Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (AD-RCMAR), announces a research career enrichment program involving seminar participation and mentoring in AD-relevant research. We invite applications from those interested in enhancing their knowledge of contextual factors in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Funds are available for investigator-initiated research projects that support the development of independent NIH-funded projects. Proposals with high likelihood of advancing research on ADRD disparities, especially among Arab Americans and Latinos, are particularly encouraged. Three proposals will be selected to receive funds of up to $30,000 for one year with the grant period beginning on July 1, 2019. It would be greatly appreciated if you could please distribute this announcement within your department and/or program. Please see the attached announcement for full details. Completed applications should be emailed as a single pdf attachment to mccfad.isr@umich.edu<
CONFERENCES
The 9th Conference on Emerging Adulthood, October 10, 2019 – October 12, 2019, to be held at the Intercontinental Toronto Centre Hotel, Canada. For more information, visit the conference website,http://ssea.org/conference/
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Impact of Housing Affordability on Economic Development and Regional Labor Markets. Deadline March 1, 2019. For more information, download.
WORKSHOPS
RSF Summer Institute in Biological Approaches in the Social Sciences, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois (adjacent to Chicago) from June 10 to 14, 2019.. The co-organizers and principal faculty are Greg Miller, Thomas McDade, and Emma Adam (Northwestern University). Most participant costs during the institute, including housing and most meals, are covered, and travel expenses are reimbursed up to a set cap. The workshop will consist of a week-long series of didactic lectures, small-group breakout sessions, and hands-on laboratory exercises. Attendees will (1) develop an understanding of the conceptual basis for integrating the social and biological sciences, (2) become acquainted with the basic units of biology – genes, cells, and organs – and how they function, (3) learn basic physiology of the nervous, autonomic, endocrine, cardiometabolic, and immune systems, and (4) gain familiarity with methods used to measure and analyze human biological processes, and critically evaluate their strengths and weaknesses. This Institute is intended to provide broad training in human biological systems, with the goal of helping attendees conduct in-depth process research linking social context, biology, and human capital. This focus is distinct from RSF’s Summer Institute on Social Science Genomics, which is devoted more specifically to theories, methods, and statistical expertise required to integrate genetics into social science research. The target audience is post-doctoral fellows and untenured faculty within 10 years of the Ph.D., although we are open to applications from advanced doctoral students. There are no restrictions based on citizenship, country of study, or country of employment. Priority will be given to candidates whose applications demonstrate (1) research excellence that is appropriate to their career stage, (2) a serious commitment to launching a biosocial research program, which (3) dovetails with RSF research priorities in Social Inequality, Behavioral Economics, Future of Work, and Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration. All application instructions and requirements are listed in the PDF announcement (located on the main Summer Institutes webpage). Inquiries can be sent to biosocial@northwestern.edu
2019 UM Genomics for Social Scientists Workshop. Researchers from the University of Michigan invite you to apply to the 3rd annual Genomics for Social Scientists workshop, held Ann Arbor, MI June 17-21, 2019. The purpose of this NIA funded workshop is to familiarize researchers with genetic data and provide instruction on how to incorporate genetic information into social science analyses. This one-week genomic data workshop will focus on providing hands-on training for researchers working at the intersection of genetics and social science research, using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) as a model. Using tutorial versions of the HRS core survey data and HRS genetic data files, the workshop will instruct on several current methods of genomic analyses. Lectures will also discuss issues surrounding collection of samples, working with labs, ethics, and collaboration with biological experts. A key component of this workshop is the opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration among attendees, with University of Michigan investigators, and invited course instructors. This course is designed to primarily benefit researchers who already have experience conducting statistical examinations of behavioral traits, but who may have little or no genetic or biological training. Investigators interested in a better understanding of genomic analysis as it applies to social and behavioral science research are encouraged to apply. For more information on how to apply, available travel stipends, and curriculum, please visit: https://hrs.isr.umich.e
D-LAB
D-Lab: 2 hour introduction to NIH grants at D-Lab, targeted to either advanced graduate students or early career researchers, to take place on Monday, January 28, from 2-4 PM in 356B Barrows Hall (D-Lab). Register atdlab.berkeley.edu. D-Lab regularly offers workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses topics. One-on-one consulting also available. For more information and registration, visit http://dlab.berkeley.edu. You can now add D-Lab workshops to your bcalendar directly from D-Lab workshop description. They will have pre-semester intensives, so be sure to check out the calendar.
RELATED LISTS
JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.
MIGRATION MAILING LIST
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI.berkeley.edu) is a research center for the study of immigrants and immigration. BIMI has a mailing list (immigration_group@lists.
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MAILING LIST
Tue$day Top Tip$ for SPH Research is a listserv with research funding opportunities and other information pertinent to public health researchers who are not necessarily population researchers. To subscribe, write to Dr. Lauren Goldstein, lhg@berkeley.edu.