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, 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 12, 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. Sold out–watch the livestream: https://livestream.com/berkeleyhealth/sugar-panel
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.
Thursday, Sept 14, 7-9 PM. “Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City” Steve Early, Author. 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Director’s Room
Thursday, Sept 14, 5:30-6:30 PM. BERCShop: “Fossil Fuel Companies and the Science of Climate Responsibility,” with Dr. Peter Frumhoff, the Director of Science and Policy and Chief Climate Scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists. Hearst Memorial Mining Building, Room 348. RSVP here. [Note: Peter Frumhoff is my step-brother so even though it’s not quite population sciences, I’m taking editor’s license to include it J.]
OPPORTUNITIES
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows program is an outstanding non-partisan opportunity that offers exclusive, hands-on policy experience with the most influential congressional and executive offices in our nation’s capital. Fellows participate in the policy process at the federal level and use that leadership experience to improve health, health care, and health policy while advancing their own careers. Up to six awards of up to $165,000 each will be made in 2018. The fellowship requires a minimum commitment of 12 months in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit: http://www.healthpolicyfellows.org/apply/overview/.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship competition for 2018-2019. View the flyer for general information on this coveted fellowship. It also includes information on Graduate Division’s NSF GRFP Applicant Workshop, to be held Wednesday, September 20 from 10:00 – 11:30 AM in 309 Sproul Hall. The workshop will provide valuable tips that will assist in strengthening applications. Speakers include one of UCB’s NSF fellowship coordinators, a UCB professor that served on a previous year’s NSF review panel, and current UCB NSF fellows.
D-LAB
Dlab sponsors workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses topics. Upcoming workshops include R, Stata, qualitative methods, and social science methods. 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.