EVENTS
[All events are subject to change, especially given the coronavirus situation.]
No Demography Brown Bag this week due to cancellation.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Monday, March 2, 4-5 PM. The 2020 Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lectures. David Card, Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, “Are We Under-investing in Education?” In the Chevron Auditorium at International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.
Monday, March 2, 2020, 2 – 3:30 p.m.,”The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap” Ricardo Perez Truglia, UCLA, Evans Hall, room 648.
Tuesday, March 3, 11 AM – 12 PM. “The importance of individual and family characteristics in explaining racial disparities in criminal justice contact” with Yotam Shem-Tov, UCLA, 648 Evans Hall.
Tuesday March 3, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. California’s Master Plan for Aging. David Ragland, Adjunct Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health; Carrie Graham, Consultant, California Department of Aging. 5101 Berkeley Way West.
EVENTS
[All events are subject to change, especially given the coronavirus situation.]
No Demography Brown Bag this week due to cancellation.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Monday, March 2, 4-5 PM. The 2020 Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lectures. David Card, Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, “Are We Under-investing in Education?” In the Chevron Auditorium at International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.
Monday, March 2, 2020, 2 – 3:30 p.m.,”The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap” Ricardo Perez Truglia, UCLA, Evans Hall, room 648.
Tuesday, March 3, 11 AM – 12 PM. “The importance of individual and family characteristics in explaining racial disparities in criminal justice contact” with Yotam Shem-Tov, UCLA, 648 Evans Hall.
Tuesday March 3, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. California’s Master Plan for Aging. David Ragland, Adjunct Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health; Carrie Graham, Consultant, California Department of Aging. 5101 Berkeley Way West.
Tuesday March 3, 12:30-2 p.m. Knowledge Borders: Temporary Labor Mobility and the Canada-U.S. Border Region. Kathrine E. Richardson, Associate Professor, San José State University. 223 Moses Hall.
Thursday, March 5, 2020, 12 – 1:30 p.m. “The Labor Market Returns to Advanced Degrees” Joseph Altonji, Yale University. Haas School of Business, room N470
SAVE THE DATE
March 19, 2020, 12pm, Matrix On Point: Taxation and the 1%. With Emmanuel Saez, and Danny Yagan. 820 Barrows Hall.
FUNDING
Health Effects Institute for early investigators. HEI is inviting applications for the Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award. Through the program, grants of up to $500,000 over as many as three years will be awarded in support of research being conducted by early investigators on the health effects of air pollution. Research projects may be interdisciplinary in nature and span a range of scientific fields, including atmospheric science, epidemiology, exposure science, statistics, and toxicology. Evidence that the applicant’s institution is prepared to make a tangible commitment to helping him/her become established an independent investigator is required as part of the application. Scientists of any nationality holding a PhD, ScD, MD, DVM, or DrPH degree are eligible to apply. Preliminary applications are due by March 24. https://www.healtheffects.org/
CITRIS Opportunities: Register and submit poster abstracts for Aging in a Digital World Conference, April 1-2. Join UC Davis Health, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, and the Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network for the Aging in a Digital World Conference on April 1-2, 2020 at Betty Irene Moore Hall, 2570 48th St., Room 1000. The two-day conference brings together international thought leaders in aging, technology, and health care policy research, with the common goal of identifying gaps in these areas that delay the adoption of innovations to support aging in a digital world. Keynote speaker Eleni Kounalakis, Lieutenant Governor of California, will discuss California’s commitment to care for an aging population. We seek poster abstracts on topics related to the conference’s subject matter of aging technology, and health care policy research. More information: https://citris-uc.org/aging-
WORKSHOPS & SYMPOSIA
Second research summit on dementia care, caregiving, and services, Tuesday, March 24 and Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at NIH in Bethesda. The website for this event is https://www.nia.nih.gov/2020-
The Gateway to Global Aging Data (Gateway) Team at the University of Southern California has launched the Call for Applications for a Summer Workshop on Comparative Studies on Aging, which will take place August 23 – 28, 2020 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Submission deadline is March 20.
CONFERENCES
The 13th Global Meeting on Population and the Generational Economy (NTA) will
take place August 3-7 in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Now you may submit abstract
and register to attend the conference. Follow the link at at www.ntaccounts.org to see preliminary agenda and register. The deadline for registration is April 30, 2020.
British Society for Population Studies, Annual Conference 2020, Monday 14 – Wednesday 16 September, University of Leicester, Stamford Court. Submissions for the Conference are due April 20, 2020. The conference website is http://www.lse.ac.uk/social-
CALLS FOR PAPERS
The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) is seeking submissions for a Special Issue entitled “Demographic Aspects of Human Wellbeing.” Submit articles here: https://vypr.vlg.oeaw.ac.at/
OPPORTUNITIES
Facebook is providing $2,000,000 in new unrestricted grants for academic research about misinformation and polarization on social media! Apply at https://research.fb.com/blog/
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Health Policy Research Scholars – Due March 11. Health Policy Research Scholars (HPRS) is a four-year national leadership development program for full-time doctoral students from nonclinical, academic disciplines—who want to improve health, well-being, and equity; challenge long-standing, entrenched systems; exhibit new ways of working; and collaborate across disciplines and sectors. We’ll select up to 60 scholars who will receive a stipend of $30,000 per year for up to four years or until they complete their doctoral program (whichever is sooner). https://www.rwjf.org/en/
ICPSR Diversity scholarships The ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research is excited to announce the 2020 Diversity Scholarships. These scholarships provide funds to support training in statistics and quantitative methods for graduate students from underrepresented groups in any academic discipline, with the objective of improving their academic performance and optimizing their professional advancement. Applicants must be enrolled in universities based in the United States. The Diversity Scholarship is a waiver of registration fees to attend one or both of the Summer Program’s 2020 four-week sessions. Held on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, the four-week sessions provide an immersive learning experience in methodological techniques. Participants in the First Session (June 22-July 17) and Second Session (July 20-August 14) can choose from more than 40 courses, including regression analysis, Bayesian analysis, longitudinal analysis, game theory, MLE, SEM, causal inference, machine learning, multilevel models, race/ethnicity and quantitative methods, data visualization, and more. Recipients of the Diversity Scholarship will also receive a stipend for travel, lodging, and living expenses. Applications are due March 31, 2020. Please refer to the Diversity Scholarship application page, https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
The National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families invites advanced doctoral students (those with “ABD” status) and early career scholars (up to 5 years post-Ph.D.) who are interested in pursuing research focused on Hispanic children and families to submit applications for its Research Scholars Program. https://www.
Analysing the Generations and Gender Programme survey data and participating in the preparation of a new series of family behaviour surveys in Europe and Asia. One scholarship is open for a PhD candidate interested in the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) and especially its extension to Asian cities. Deadline for applications is March 31. Download the information HERE.
WEBINARS
LED Webinar: Using National Jobs Data to Measure College Graduation Impact, March 18, 2020, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EDT, given by Dr. Andrew Foote, Senior Economist, LEHD program, U.S. Census Bureau. No registration for this webinar is required. Select ADD TO CALENDAR, and you will be informed about how to join the webinar.
D-LAB
Be sure to check the D-lab calendar at the website, dlab.berkeley.edu. D-Lab offers training, individual consulting and data services for the UC Berkeley community – faculty to undergrads.
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 which is where a good deal of immigration and migration announcements are posted, and only some of that material is posted on the PopSciences Weekly News. Sign up for it with this link
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.