Weekly News – October 9, 2017 - Population Sciences

EVENTS
Wednesday October 11, 12-1:15 PM. Demography Brown Bag: Elizabeth Ananat, Duke University, The Effect of Increased Income on Children’s Academic Achievement: Evidence from the Marcellus Shale. 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, October 10, 12:30-2 PM. A European refugee crisis or a humanity crisis? Elsadig Elsheikh, Director, Global Justice Program at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. 223 Moses Hall.

Wednesday, October 11, 10-11:30 AM. “Web tools for demographic mapping” 356 Barrows Hall. Susan Powell, Library.

SAVE THE DATE
Oct 19, 5-8 PM “In Defense of People on the Move (Latina/o Immigrants) in the Racist Era of Trump,” with Alvaro Huerta, Cal Polytechnic, Pomona. (UC Berkeley’s Dept. of City and Regional Planning or DCRP). 112 Wurster Hall. Reception from 5-5:30. https://ced.berkeley.edu/events-media/events/dcrp-lecture-alvaro-huerta.

TUESDAY, October 17, 4:10 – 5:00 PM. Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science. “Data for Social Good: Possibilities and Potential Pitfalls” with Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Professor, Political Science & Education, UC Berkeley. Location: 190 Doe Library, UC Berkeley

Wednesday, October 11, 10-11:30 AM. “Web tools for demographic mapping” 356 Barrows Hall. Susan Powell, Library.

NIH FUNDING
Short-term Mentored Career Enhancement Awards for Mid-Career Investigators to Integrate Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences (K18 Clinical Trial Required): NIH seeks applications for short-term mentored career development (K18) awards that improve synergies among researchers in basic and applied behavioral-social sciences, human subjects and model animals settings; and biomedical and behavioral-social sciences. For more information, see https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-17-486.html.

CONFERENCES
The third annual one-day workshop on Comparative Adult Mortality in Low and Middle Income Countries, Feb 23, 2018. Co-sponsored by CEDA and the USC/UCLA Center for Biodemography and Population Health. Deadline for abstract submission is November 15. Fuller details of the thematic focus and submission process can be found here: http://populationsciences.berkeley.edu/call-abstracts-comparative-workshop-adult-mortality-determinants.

Aging Workforce: Older Workers and Immigrants as New Pillars of Western Economies? in Prague on March 1 − 2, 2018. The second installment of the international conference organized in the framework of the long-term aging project will focus on work ability and work potential for older people and the impact of aging on the labor market. We are looking for papers that will contribute to a critical examination of this topic mainly in four key areas: Aging Workforce, Healthy Aging, Migration and Labor Market, Madrid International Plan of Action Aging.
Deadlines:
Abstract submission deadline: October 15, 2017
Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2017
Early bird registration deadline: December 31, 2017
Full paper submission: February 15, 2018
Regular conference registration deadline: February 15, 2018.

American Sociological Association 2018 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. The Submissions will be accepted beginning November 1, and the deadline is January 11, 2018. For more information, visit: http://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting-2018/2018-call-submissions-information.

FELLOWSHIPS
The Advanced Research Collaborative of The Graduate Center, CUNY invites applicants for Distinguished Visiting Fellowships in New York City. Applicants should have outstanding records of published research and scholarship. In addition to academic distinction, preference will be given to scholars whose interests strengthen the research priorities of ARC in the following areas: Inequality, Immigration, Multilingualism, or Global Cities. Distinguished Fellows are provided with an office, a computer, and access to the Graduate Center’s academic infrastructure. The deadline for applications is Tuesday, October 31st, 2017. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 31st, 2018.
Alcohol Research Group (ARG), in association with the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, is currently accepting applications for two-year Postdoctoral and Predoctoral Fellowships. ARG is a nationally and internationally recognized center for research on alcohol epidemiology, policy, and intervention that is located in Emeryville, CA. Fellowships are sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and offer research training in the study of alcohol and drug use and problems, including basic and applied social and epidemiological research. Although some of the research at our center considers clinical issues, fellowships are not appropriate for persons interested primarily in clinical practice. Our program focuses on alcohol-related disparities, so we are particularly interested in applicants with research interests in socially or economically disadvantaged groups (e.g., racial/ethnic minorities, sexual minorities, women, and those of low socioeconomic status), but others will also be considered. Additional information about our program and on how to apply can be found at www.arg.org/training.

WORKSHOPS
The Data Incubator is an intensive 8 week fellowship that prepares masters students, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM and social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is free for Fellows and supported by sponsorships from hundreds of employers across multiple industries. In response to the overwhelming interest in our earlier sessions, we will be holding another fellowship. Anyone who has already obtained a masters or PhD degree or who is within one year of graduating with a masters or PhD is welcome to apply. Applications from international students are welcome. Everyone else is encouraged to sign-up for a future session. Dates: All sections will be from 2018-01-02 to 2018-02-23. In addition to the below in-person locations, we will have a remote online session:

New York City
San Francisco Bay Area
Seattle
Boston
Washington, DC.

Application Link: https://www.thedataincubator.com/fellowship.html#apply?ref=wYWFhMUBjb2x1bWJpYS5lZHU= Data Science in 30 minutes: Learn how to build a data-science project in our upcoming free Data Science in 30-minutes webcast. Signup soon as space is limited. Learn More: You can learn about our fellows at The New York Times, LinkedIn, Amazon, Capital One, orPalantir. To read about our latest fellow alumni, check out our blog. To learn more about The Data Incubator, check us out on Venture Beat, The Next Web, or Harvard Business Review.

GESIS Workshop on Methodological Issues in Surveying Immigrant Populations. The meeting will be held following the “CESSDA Data Discovery Workshop: Data on Migration” on November 14, 2017, from 14:00h until 17:30h at GESIS Cologne, Conference Room Ost. If you are interested, please register by November 7, 2017 by sending an email to migration-data@gesis.org. We expect the following external guests: Anja Stichs (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees), Nina Rother (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees), Jörg Dollmann (University of Mannheim/MZES), Hanno Kruse (University of Cologne), Sabrina J. Mayer (Immigrant German Election Study (IMGES), University of Duisburg-Essen) und Johannes W. S. Kappelhof (The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP). Please find more information about the background and program at: www.gesis.org/migration-tagung.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies Graduate and Undergraduate Mini-Grant Program – 2017-18. Applications are due by 4pm on Monday, November 13, 2017. Download an application here. The Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies invites UC Berkeley graduate and undergraduate students to apply for small grants to assist with the development of student research projects on issues related to right-wing movements in the U.S. or other regions of the world.

DATA
GESIS Cologne has set up a data collection dedicated to several migration-related issues. The collection can be accessed at www.gesis.org/migration.

D-LAB
D-Lab sponsors workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses topics. This week includes Creating Maps in R, Intro to STATA, R, Tableau and Python. One-on-one consulting also available. For more information and registration, visit http://dlab.berkeley.edu.

JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/jobs. This list advertises positions of all sorts relevant for social and behavioral scientists with advanced degrees