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Current Update.PPOL Update April 13, 2007PPOL Students, Here’s the latest PPOL Update (thankfully shorter than the last one!). In this issue: 2. Summer Qualifying Exam Takers 4. Health Policy Paper Competition
I just wanted to remind everyone that PPOL will be hosting a brown bag student presentation session on Wednesday, April 18th from 12:00-1:30 in Fretwell 480-C (the Dept. of Sociology conference room). Four PPOL students will be presenting their upcoming papers they will be delivering at the Urban Affairs Association conference later in April. Faculty have been invited as well. I hope you can join us to provide feedback on the style and content of their presentations as they get ready for this conference.
2. Summer Qualifying Exam Takers Below is the list of those who have confirmed with me that they intend to take the qualifying exams in August. If you are planning to do so and have not contacted me, please do so asap. For those of you on the list, I strongly encourage you to coordinate with one another in preparation for the exams. As part of that, meeting with the professors on the committee can be a useful preparation tool. Bottia DeScisciolo Giersch Hekim Holder Mathema Sause Tsvetkova If you have questions about this process, please let me know. I will forwarding the new format and exact dates and times for the exams as soon as the committee members and I nailed down the final details.
The ICPSR has released several new data sets for public usage. UNCC is a member of this consortium, so you have access to these data sets. If you are interest in learning about the updates, follow this link. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/09942.xml
4. Health Policy Paper Competition Health Services Research Academy Student Paper Award Award for 1 Masters Student and 1 Doctoral Student. Submit an outstanding course paper or paper for publication related to health, maximum 35 pages. Co-authored papers for publication are allowed if the student is the first author and did the majority of the writing. Include information on student degrees held, program now enrolled in, current employment and contact information. Review will include: eligibility, purpose stated and met, logic, clarity, cites current literature, free of writing errors. Submit paper/information to: J. Dienemann, School of Nursing, 423 CHHS By April 16, 2007
Monetary Award will be given HRSA Annual Meeting April 26, 2007 4pm Speaker: Howell Sasser Dickson Institute, CMC
I am happy to report several bits of good news concerning our recent student and faculty happenings. First, PPOL student Huiping Li has won an internationally competitive internship with the Oak Ridge National Lab through the Oak Ridge Center for Advanced Studies (ORCAS) program. She will be working this summer on emergency response policy while at the national lab in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Congrats to Huiping for this great accomplishment. Back at the end of March, the university hosted the 7th Annual Graduate Research Fair. PPOL student Martha Bottia won second place for her paper on FARC in her division. This came with a monetary prize, so she will be buying at the next PPOL social event. Congrats to Martha for her paper. Also at the end of March, Nick Swartz successfully defended his dissertation proposal. Congrats to Nick on clearing this milestone and moving to ABD status. We have another three proposal defenses coming up in May as folks are beginning to really move into the final stages of the program on a more regular basis. In the news, you might have heard that the Urban Institute here at UNCC launched its Indicators Project. What you probably don’t know is that PPOL student Silva Mathema is one of the main driving forces behind that project for the Institute and is helping design the local and regional methodologies for this endeavor. This project will garner a lot of attention for the university in the coming years and we want to make sure that the public and university understand the important role our doctoral students like Silva are playing in these important elements of UNCC’s metropolitan outreach mission. Finally, we have wonderful news about Dr. Roz Mickelson, Professor of Sociology and faculty member in PPOL. She was just appointed to the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Research Advisory Committee for 2007-2010. The Research Advisory Committee is a standing committee of AERA that develops, refines, and disseminates standards for reporting and evaluating empirical social science research. In January 2007, she also was appointed to the Social Science Advisory Board of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC). PRRAC is a civil rights policy organization convened by major civil rights and anti-poverty groups in 1989. PRRAC's primary mission is to help connect social scientists with advocates working on race and poverty issues, and to promote a research-based advocacy strategy on issues of structural racial inequality. Congrats to Dr. Mickelson on these appointments.
Pre/Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard-MIT Data Center Since 1990, the Harvard-MIT Data Center has offered up to three pre- or post-doctoral fellowships every academic year. We are looking for scholars with a strong background in statistical methods, strong statistical computer skills, and substantive interests that would allow them to best take advantage of the research environment and the particular collection of people and projects here. We would particularly value candidates with a commitment and patience to provide statistical support to the Harvard and MIT communities. Experience with R is required and previous experience as a teaching fellow for statistic courses is desired. Directed by Professor Gary King, HMDC is the principle repository of Social Science Data at Harvard University and MIT, is involved in numerous substantive and methodological research projects in political science and related social sciences, and is closely integrated with the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, the Department of Government, the Harvard College Library Social Sciences Program, and the MIT Social Science Data Services. Appointments are available for a year (12-month year), with the possibility of extension. Fellows are expected to work about 17.5 hours per week consulting with faculty, students, and staff, assisting with the center's research projects, and maintaining the center's operations. They receive a salary ($24,204 for a 12-month year for 2006-2007 academic year), full health care benefits, office space, and access to computer and research facilities. Interested parties should send a letter of interest that summarizes your experience with political methodology, and statistical software; an academic vita; a writing sample; any teaching evaluations if available for statistic courses; and two letters of recommendation (preferably focusing on both statistical knowledge, teaching experience and the usual academic merit) by April 30th to: HMDC Research Fellowship Harvard University CGIS Knafel North Building Room N350 1737 Cambridge Street Cambridge MA 02138
Email: hmdc_fellowship@hmdc.harvard.edu
Dr.
David Swindell, Assoc. Professor & Director Previous PPOL Updates:
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