Congratulations Yool Choi, Lianna Hartmour, and Jaeeun Kim!

By On May 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Yool Choi has received an American Educational Research Association (AERA) dissertation grant. More information about this program is available at: http://www.aera.net/ProfessionalOpportunitiesFunding/FundingOpportunities/AERAGrantsProgram/DissertationGrants/tabid/12812/Default.aspx

Lianna Hartmour has won a Greater Good Science Center Gratitude Dissertation Award. More information about this UC Berkeley-based program can be found at http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/expandinggratitude/dissertation_research_awards.

Recent UCLA Ph.D. Jaeeun Kim has [...]

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Congratulations to Annie Fehrenbacher!

By On May 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Annie Fehrenbacher has just won the Elizabeth Blackwell, MD Award from the Center for the Study of Women for her paper ?The Evolution of a Gendered Politics of Trauma: Challenging the Depiction of Rape: A Fate Worse Than Death?

Great Work Annie!

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New resources on Spatial Analysis

By On May 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Announcing a new journal – Spatial Demography - http://spatialdemography.org/ 

A new website on Advanced Spatial Analysis – http://gispopsci.org/. This website includes an array of resources on advanced spatial analysis in the population sciences and spatial demography, including spatial analysis tools, key websites, workshops and webinars, curricula, and much more.

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TESS – the Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences Special Competition for Young Investigators

By On May 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment

We are pleased to announce that Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) was renewed for another round of funding last fall by NSF. TESS allows researchers to submit proposals for experiments to be conducted on a nationally-representative, probability-based Internet platform, and successful proposals are fielded at no cost to investigators. More information about how [...]

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The Global Health Group: Postdoctoral Fellowships

By On May 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Private Sector Healthcare Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow – Position Description

The Global Health Group

University of California, San Francisco

The Global Health Group (GHG) at the University of California, San Francisco is an “action tank” dedicated to identifying, elaborating and translating innovative solutions to major global health challenges into large-scale action to advance health [...]

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Columbia University: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Social and Behavioral Cancer Prevention and Control

By On April 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment

University is inviting applications for tenured or tenure-track position in the Mailman School of Public Health. Research areas may be related to preventive health behaviors, obesity prevention, cancer screening and early detection, genetic counseling, and more. See attached announcement: ColumbiaJobAd

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New PhD program in Sociology at UMass Boston

By On April 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment

UMass Boston has announced a new PhD program in Sociology with concentrations in health, mental health and health care services, communities and crime, and immigration and globalization. See the attached announcement for more information: UMassBostonPhD

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Post-Doc in Environment and Heath at Rice University

By On April 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Rice University has a newly funded environment and health post-doc position starting on or around July 1, 2013 and renewable for a total of 2 years. Annual salary is $52,000 plus benefits. Deadline for application is May 15. See the following announcement: RicePostDoc

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Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research

Congrats, Jennie E. Brand and Juli Simon Thomas!

By On April 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Jennie E. Brand and Juli Simon Thomas have a chapter “Causal Effect Heterogeneity” in the volume called the Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research (Stephen L. Morgan ed., Springer Series.), which will be released sometime in May 2013.

Congratulations to Jennie and Juli!

 

The Amazon page is here:

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UCLA Research Conference on Aging: Registration and Call for Abstracts

By On April 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment

On behalf of the UCLA Academic Geriatric Resource Center (AGRC), we invite you to join us this summer for our 18th Annual Research Conference on Aging. We welcome all researchers who are currently conducting research in aging, or have an interest in learning more about the field.

Annual UCLA Research Conference on Aging June 28, [...]

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