EVENTS (Note: these are subject to cancellation given the air quality issues)
No Brown Bag this week.
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/
Monday, Nov 19 11:30-1:30 PM. Gun Violence in Schools: Multidisciplinary conversation on gun violence with leading professors, litigators and practitioners. Speakers: Professor Ron Avi Astor, USC; Alisa Crovetti, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley; Alla Lefkowitz, Every Town for Gun Safety; Emily Ozer, Professor, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley. Moderators: Dean Prudence Carter, Dean, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley; Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Berkeley School of Law. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Monday, Nov 19, 8 pm. Mario Savio Free Speech Lecture, featuring Robert Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy and former US Secretary of Labor. His topic will be “Free Speech in Angry Times”, to be held in Pauley Ballroom in the ASUC Student Union. Admission is free, and seating is first-come, first-served. More information here.
EVENTS (Note: these are subject to cancellation given the air quality issues)
No Brown Bag this week.
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/
Monday, Nov 19 11:30-1:30 PM. Gun Violence in Schools: Multidisciplinary conversation on gun violence with leading professors, litigators and practitioners. Speakers: Professor Ron Avi Astor, USC; Alisa Crovetti, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley; Alla Lefkowitz, Every Town for Gun Safety; Emily Ozer, Professor, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley. Moderators: Dean Prudence Carter, Dean, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley; Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Berkeley School of Law. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Monday, Nov 19, 8 pm. Mario Savio Free Speech Lecture, featuring Robert Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy and former US Secretary of Labor. His topic will be “Free Speech in Angry Times”, to be held in Pauley Ballroom in the ASUC Student Union. Admission is free, and seating is first-come, first-served. More information here.
OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
Wednesday December 5, 6:30-8 PM. “Plagues and the Paradox of Progress” by Thomas Bollyky, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development and Director of the Global Health Program, Council on Foreign Relations. World Affairs Auditorium, 312 Sutter Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94108. To learn more and register (fee) visit here.
SAVE THE DATE
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 from 12:40-2 PM. Margaret Handley will deliver a talk entitled “What matters when exploring fidelity in interventions using health IT to reduce health disparities in language-diverse populations?” Berkeley Way West, Room 1205.
November 29th, 2018: Mini-Conference on Inequality in Life and Death. A half-day mini-conference, exploring social, economic, and policy dimensions of Inequality in Life and Death, featuring a keynote by Peter Orszag, and presentations from UC Berkeley faculty in Economics, Demography and Public Policy. Co-sponsored by CEDA together with the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), and the UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab (O-Lab). Registration is free. To learn more and register, visit https://inequality-policy.
Noon November 29th Claire Snell-Rood, PhD, Assistant Professor in CHS, will discuss the multi-level factors shaping the effectiveness of systems-level integrated drug treatment for rural patients drawing on recent interviews with providers and systems-level stakeholders in rural hubs and their spokes within California’s system. 5101 BWW
Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 11 am – 2 pm The 2018 Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Networking Luncheon Honoring Professor Brenda Eskenazi Alumni House UC Berkeley Campus Hosted by the UC Berkeley Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program $35 Regular, $25 students. To learn more and register, click here.
2018 BITSS Annual Meeting on December 10 at the Brower Center (Tamalpais room) in Berkeley, CA. An initiative of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), BITSS works to strengthen the transparency, reproducibility, and credibility of social science research and evidence used for policy-making. Free to attend and open to the public, the Annual Meeting provides a forum for openly discussing the evolving needs and capacities of researchers and research stakeholders with regards to transparency and openness, as well as an opportunity to learn and discuss the development of innovative tools and methods for open and reproducible science. Find the agenda here. Please RSVP here. Contact Aleks Bogdanoski (abogdanoski@berkeley.edu) with any questions.
FUNDING
NIH Announces New Parent Awards – R03 (PA-19-052), R21 (Clinical trial PA-19-054) and (No Clinical Trial PA-19-053); and R01 (Clinical trial PA-19-055) and (No Clinical Trial PA-19-056) .
NSF Methodology, Measurement and Statistics (MMS) Program
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/
Due January 29, 2019
The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. As part of its larger portfolio, the MMS Program partners with a consortium of federal statistical agencies to support research proposals that further the production and use of official statistics. The MMS Program provides support through a number of different funding mechanisms. The following mechanisms are addressed in this solicitation:
Regular Research Awards
Awards for conferences and community-development activities
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grants
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplements
UC Mexus Opportunity: These opportunities, one for faculty collaborative projects and the other for postdoctoral research, support collaborations between UC campuses and Mexican institutions in the natural, physical or social sciences, humanities, engineering, or computer science. The application deadlines are February 25, 2019. 2019 Calls for Proposals for the following programs are now available at: www.ucmexus.ucr.edu
UC MEXUS-CONACYT Collaborative Research Grants – For faculty and researchers ($25K)
http://ucmexus.ucr.edu/
WT Grant Foundation Reducing Inequality Research Grant: More information here. Letter of Inquiry due January 9th, 2019. The research grants programs support high-quality field-initiated studies that are relevant to policies and practices that affect the lives of young people ages 5 to 25 in the United States. Research proposals are evaluated on the basis of their fit with a given focus area; the strength and feasibility of their designs, methods, and analyses; their potential to inform change; and their contribution to theory and empirical evidence. In the focus area of reducing inequality, WT Grant Foundation supports research to build, test, and increase understanding of approaches to reducing inequality in youth outcomes, especially on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins. They are interested in research on programs, policies, and practices to reduce inequality in academic, social, behavioral, and economic outcomes.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth: Request for Proposals on Inequality, Economic Growth, and Stability. WCEG’s annual competitive grants program for faculty and Ph.D. students investigating macroeconomic policy, market structure, the labor market, and human capital is accepting applications. Click HERE to learn more.
CALLS FOR PAPERS
2019 ACS DATA USERS CONFERENCE – SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2018. The 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) Data Users Conference will bring together ACS data users and staff from the U.S. Census Bureau to increase understanding of the value and utility of ACS data and to promote information sharing among data users about key ACS data issues and applications. The conference will include:
• Contributed presentations by ACS data users
• Invited sessions
• Breakout sessions
• Informal meet-ups or roundtable discussions (topic-based)
• Lightning session (NEW!)
• Opportunities for networking
Registration for the conference will be free for all participants. We are inviting abstracts on any topic relating to ACS data, but we are especially interested in presentations focused on:
• Innovations in visualizing/ mapping ACS data
• Accuracy of ACS data: sampling and nonsampling issues
• ACS methods and survey design
• Combining ACS with other survey or administrative data
• Measuring change over time with ACS data users
• ACS estimates for small geographic and rural areas: challenges and solutions
• Aggregating ACS data and creating effective user-defined geographic areas
• Presenting ACS data: practical guidelines for data
• Utility of the ACS for private-sector applications
To submit an abstract, visit www.surveymonkey.com/r/
OPPORTUNITIES
AERA: AERA Congressional Fellowship (Closes: December 15, 2018)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FCOI: Financial Conflict of Interest Statements: SPO has announced that as of December 3, 2018, PIs will no longer need to submit a separate PDF document to disclose a negative financial conflict of interest for an investigator named in a proposal to PHS, NSF or any of the other agencies that have adopted federal financial disclosure policies (so this doesn’t include the State of California 700U forms). The new process will be that the PI will answer a question in the Phoebe Proposal module based on the sponsor’s requirements on behalf of all of the investigators involved in the PI’s project. This means that the PI will need to obtain information on each investigator’s financial conflicts of interest prior to answering the questions and submitting his/her proposal to SPO.
Researchers: Get Your ORCID! An Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) is a persistent digital ID used to accurately link researchers to their work. Registering for an ORCID allows you to be correctly linked to your publications, keep track of your work, and distinguish yourself from researchers with similar names. An ORCID also stays with you wherever you go (including moving institutions), makes it easier to submit a history of your work for papers and funding, and automatically integrates with manuscript and grant submission workflows. https://orcid.org/.
WEBINARS
Intro to IPUMS GeoMarker: Attach Contextual Data to User-provided Locations. IPUMS GeoMarker is a utility that attaches contextual data derived from the American Community Survey to user-provided street addresses or geographic coordinates. GeoMarker geocodes addresses, assigns each geocode a census ID, and then links contextual data to each geocode using the census ID. This webinar will demonstrate how to use the GeoMarker user interface and how to interpret the data created by GeoMarker. The webinar will be held on December 7, 2018, from 11 a.m. – noon, CST. Registration is required. Like all IPUMS data, it is free of charge!
DATA
Terra: IPUMS Terra has released the latest microdata from IPUMS International, along with associated area-level data and boundaries. This release includes microdata datasets from the April 2017 and September 2018 IPUMS International releases, along with area-level data tabulated from those samples. New geographic levels were also added for many existing datasets. IPUMS Terra now includes first- and second-level harmonized and year-specific boundaries for most microdata and area-level datasets.
NHGIS: IPUMS NHGIS has added the 2017 1-Year Summary File from the American Community Survey (ACS). This includes over 1,300 new tables, now available for geographic areas with 65,000 or more residents.
D-LAB
D-Lab offers training in Data Science this fall for students as well as pedagogical training for instructors. Visit the D-lab website for more information. 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, visithttp://dlab.berkeley.edu. You can now add D-Lab workshops to your bcalendar directly from D-Lab workshop description.
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.