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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everybody,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are gearing up for the fall 2014 semester, so it’s time
to introduce or reacquaint you with some of the Popcenter’s services for you.<span style> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Demography Brown Bag seminar series. beginning September
3, Wednesday at 12 noon, is shaping up to be a year of intriguing and
innovative research presentations by scholars from near and far.<span style> </span>Check out the schedule at <a href="http://demog.berkeley.edu/announcements/brownbag.shtml">http://demog.berkeley.edu/announcements/brownbag.shtml</a>.<span style> </span>Or just pay attention to this Popcenter
Weekly News where events of all sorts are announced, along with grants, calls
for papers, training, fellowships and more.<span style> <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>This
year the BacPop colloquia series will be a bit less frequent but move
to an expanded interdisciplinary panel format to discuss specific topic
areas. Two topics lined up thus far are (a) inequalities and mortality,
and (b) big data. Stay tuned for details. <br>
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate students are welcome to subscribe, too, and there
are often announcements specifically for grad students (see below!).<span style> </span>And if they are on the job market, be sure to
let them know about the jobs listserv.<span style>
</span>They can sign up by following this link, <a href="http://demog.berkeley.edu/announcements/brownbag.shtml">http://demog.berkeley.edu/announcements/brownbag.shtml</a>,
which can also be found on the Popcenter home page, <a href="http://popcenter.berkeley.edu">http://popcenter.berkeley.edu</a>.<span style> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And speaking of the website, it contains a great deal of
information about Popcenter affiliates (so you can find out who might be doing
similar research), NIH grant applications, a newly revised document about
writing Human Subjects Protocols, and the Popcenter Pilot Grant Program (the
first round of 2014-2015 applications is due November 15).<span style> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Should you be interested in seeking external grant
application, I am here to help you put it together, work with grant analysts
and SPO, read it critically and in some cases, help you write required
documents.<span style> </span>Don’t hesitate to ask. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Events and other announcements follow. Have a great weekend.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Leora</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>EVENTS</b></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thursday, August 28 | 2-3:30 p.m.<span style> </span>Labor Seminar:<span style> </span>Jesse Rothstein. 648 Evans Hall</span></p>
<p><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> The Los Angeles Family and
Neighborhood Survey Data Users' Workshop, </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">September
12-13, 2014, Location:<span style> </span>California Center
for Population Research, UCLA Campus.<span style> </span>Upgrade
your knowledge or learn to use the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey
(L.A.FANS) data for research. L.A. FANS is a tool to study stratification and
demography, determinants of educational and health outcomes, neighborhood
effects on children and adults, family dynamics, unemployment, and urban and
spatial structure. The workshop is free, but registration is required.<span style> </span>Includes breakfast and lunch both days.<span style> </span><span style> See the attached flyers for more information. </span>For registration and questions contact:
Rachel Veerman at <a href="mailto:rveerman@ucla.edu">rveerman@ucla.edu</a>, with the subject line of “L.A.FANS Data
Workshop” before 9/1/2014.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">CALL FOR PROPOSALS</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style>Conference
on Behavioral Health Economics, November 14, 2014,</span></b><span style>
sponsored by CEGA and BCRN, will be a one-day meeting will feature
presentations and discussions of 6-8 in-progress and completed papers at the
intersection of behavioral economics and health, and a keynote address from
Anna Fruttero, lead author of the World Bank's 2015 World Development Report,
Mind and Society.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style>To submit a paper</span></u><span style>: Submit your paper (or long
abstract for works in progress) at </span><a href="https://cega.submittable.com/submit/33417"><span style>https://cega.submittable.com/submit/33417</span></a><span style> by
midnight Pacific time on Sunday, October 5. Submissions should clearly indicate
the relevance of behavioral economics. Any health issues in any geographic
region will be considered.<span style> </span><u>Registration
</u>is required at </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/behealth2014"><span style>http://tinyurl.com/behealth2014</span></a><span style>. <span style> </span>Travel funds may be available for those
accepted to present papers (one author per paper). Students may attend if they
are nominated by a faculty member. Each faculty member can nominate a student
to attend by emailing </span><a href="mailto:e.turner@berkeley.edu"><span style>e.turner@berkeley.edu</span></a><span style>,
who can also be contacted with questions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style>Pacific
Sociological Association’s (PSA) Annual Meeting, April 1-4, 2015, Long Beach,
CA.</span></b><span style><span style> </span>Deadline
October 15, 2014.<span style> </span>Contact Noel Packard
at </span><a href="mailto:packardn@prodigy.net"><span style>packardn@prodigy.net</span></a><span style>,
or visit the PSA website, </span><a href="http://www.pacificsoc.org"><span style>www.pacificsoc.org</span></a><span style>.<span style> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style>Pacific
Association of Public Opinion Research Annual Conference, December 11-12, 2014
San Francisco.</span></b><span style> Call for Participation, “Measuring Public Opinion
in an Expanding Opinion Landscape.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>The 2014 PAPOR annual conference welcomes paper,
poster, and panel proposals on any topic related to public opinion research,
theory, or methodology. The conference theme – Measuring Public Opinion in an
Expanding Opinion Landscape – will focus on measurement of public opinion in
new venues, using new technologies and methodologies, and how these can compete
or be integrated with more traditional venues, technologies, and methods. We
encourage papers that engage the conference theme but we will also consider any
public opinion papers unrelated to the theme. We welcome participation from all
sectors engaged in public opinion and public policy research including
academia, government, private sector, and non-profit. <u>Proposal Submission
Process:</u> Submitted abstracts for papers and posters must be no longer than
300 words. Proposals should include complete contact information for each
author and presenter including name, mailing address, telephone number, and
e-mail address. All abstracts must be received no later than 5pm PDT on October
10, 2014. Please submit abstracts as electronic attachments via email to 2014
Conference Chair, Benjamin L. Messer at </span><a href="mailto:confchair@papor.org"><span style>confchair@papor.org</span></a><span style>. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">GRANTS</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">NIMH Request for Information:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><span style> </span>NIMH seeks input on
approaches to fostering innovation and accelerating progress in the development
and testing of disparity-reduction strategies related to mental health service
provision, access, or outcomes in the U.S.<span style>
</span>This request emerged from a report, “Closing the Gaps: Reducing
Disparities in Mental Health Treatment through Engagement” </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ml8tpje"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://tinyurl.com/ml8tpje</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">. <span style> </span>Comments are invited from
any interested parties, and this is your opportunity to shape research that
aligns with your own interests.<span style> </span>Read the
RFI at </span><a href="http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-MH-14-021.html"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-MH-14-021.html</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">AHRQ R01 Grant Announced</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">, to
support a discrete, specified health services research project<span style> </span>Topics should relate to the AHRQ mission,
that is, to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more
accessible, equitable and affordable, and to work with HHS and other partners
to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.<span style> </span>Specific priority areas of focus are:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Improve health care quality by accelerating implementation
of Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR)</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Make health care safer</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Increase accessibility by evaluating expansions of
insurance coverage</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Improve health care affordability, efficiency and cost
transparency</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Read the full
announcement: </span><a href="http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-291.html"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-291.html</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> is accepting applications for grants for research in the social
sciences. Applicants are encouraged to submit their proposals no later than
December 15, 2014, in order to permit the Foundation to confirm that the
proposal is complete and in the required format. Awards for 2014 will be
announced in June 2015. Deadline: January 31, 2015. For more information, visit
</span><a href="http://www.horowitz-foundation.org"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">www.horowitz-foundation.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">.<span style> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Sociological Initiatives Foundation </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">invites concept proposals for projects that link an explicit
research design to concrete social action strategy areas of civic
participation, community organizing, crime and law, education, health, housing,
immigration, labor organizing, and language/literacy. Projects should also have
clear social change goals. The grant amount is from $10,000 to $20,000.
Deadline: August 15, 2014. Contact: Prentice Zinn at <a href="mailto:pzinn@gmafoundation.com">pzinn@gmafoundation.com</a>.
For more information, visit </span><a href="http://www.sifoundation.org/2014/04/foundation-announces-call-for-concept-applications-for-2013/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">www.sifoundation.org/2014/04/foundation-announces-call-for-concept-applications-for-2013/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">PRIZES</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">CROP prize for international studies in poverty.<span style> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The Comparative Research
Programme on Poverty (CROP) is seeking original academic manuscripts about
poverty from all disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. The
organization especially welcomes submissions that contribute to the eradication
or prevention of poverty, and are in the themes of poverty and human rights,
gender disparity, policy innovation, the Millennium Development Goals process,
and global justice. Entries should not have been previously published. Apply
for the prize by Aug. 31. For more information, please visit: </span><a href="http://www.ncfr.org/news/apply-crop-prize-international-studies-poverty"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://www.ncfr.org/news/apply-crop-prize-international-studies-poverty</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">ON THE WEB</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Wisconsin Longitudinal Survey:<span style> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Version 13.02 of the WLS
is now available for download from the website.<span style>
</span></span><a href="http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/wlsresearch/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/wlsresearch/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">. This release includes three new 2011 modules -<span style> </span>Linguistic Functioning, Mortality Closeout,
and Interviewer Observation and Characteristics. We also added administrative
data on Voting History to the Ancillary Data. Other changes were made as well.<span style> </span>For more information please see Change Notice
#38, </span><a href="http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/wlsresearch/data/updates/change_notice/chnt_038.htm"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/wlsresearch/data/updates/change_notice/chnt_038.htm</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>American Community
Survey 2013 Data Release.<span style> </span></b>The 2013
ACS 1-year estimates will be released on Thursday, September 18, 2014. The 2013
ACS 1-year estimates will be available for the nation, all states, the District
of Columbia, Puerto Rico, every congressional district, every metropolitan
area, and all counties and places with populations of 65,000 or more.<span style> </span>The 2011-2013 ACS 3-year estimates are
scheduled for release on October 23, 2014. The statistics are derived from
three years of data collection cover all geographic areas with populations of
20,000 or more. The 2009-2013 ACS 5-year estimates are scheduled for release on
December 4, 2014. The statistics are derived from five years of data collection
cover all geographic areas regardless of size, down to the block group level.<span style> </span>The Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files
for each ACS release will be posted one to two months after each public
release.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you have questions about this survey, please call
Customer Services Center at 1 (800) 923-8282.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>PAPOR Student Paper
Competition: </b>The award for this competition is presented at the PAPOR
meeting mentioned above.<span style> </span>PAPOR seeks
original research analyzing survey data on public opinion of any sort, as well
as survey data about social or behavioral research.<span style> </span>It is open to graduate and undergraduate
students. Email your paper by midnight (PDT) on October 15, 2014 to PAPOR
Student Paper Chair, Jessica Gollaher at <a href="mailto:studentpaper@papor.org">studentpaper@papor.org</a>.
<span style> </span>Please include your name, mailing
address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Entries should not exceed 30
pages total. The first-place winner receives a cash award and some travel
expenses and the first- and second-place winners receive a one-year
complimentary PAPOR membership and a spot on the annual conference program.<span style> </span>Visit <a href="http://www.papora.org">www.papora.org</a>
for more information. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>Project Management
Institute (PMI) Doctoral Research Grant. </b><span style> </span>PMI supports doctoral research in project,
program and portfolio management.<span style>
</span>Applications are from part-time and full-time doctoral students at
accredited colleges and universities. The grant is awarded annually and the
deadline is May 15, 2015. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.pmi.org/research">www.pmi.org/research</a> or email them at <a href="mailto:pmief@pmi.org">pmief@pmi.org</a>. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>Dlab: R Boot Camp, </b>Saturday
August 23, 8:15 AM-5 PM and Sunday August 24, 9 AM-4:30 PM. This is an
intensive two-day instruction lab for those with no or little background in R. For
more information and registration, visit: <a href="http://dlab.berkeley.edu/training/r-bootcamp-0">http://dlab.berkeley.edu/training/r-bootcamp-0</a>.
</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>RANDOM TIP</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Make your PowerPoint handouts readable and still conserve
paper.<span style> </span>Print multiple slides on a page,
but instead of using the Print ‘Handouts’ option of printing 3, 4 or 6 tiny
slides, use the options in Printer Properties-Finishing-Four pages per sheet’
in landscape orientation and then each slide will fill up one-quarter of the
page.<span style> </span></p>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Leora Lawton PhD<br>Executive Director<br>Berkeley Population Center<br>350K Barrows Hall<br>(of) 510-643-1270<br>(m) 510-928-7572<br><a href="http://www.popcenter.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">www.popcenter.berkeley.edu</a><br>
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