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Current Update.PPOL Update June 16, 2007PPOL Students: I hope this email finds you all doing well and getting lots of research done this summer! A few things have piled up that I wanted to share with you in an Update. As always, if any of this generates questions or concerns, please let me know. In this Update: 4. Urban Affairs Books Available 5. Student, Faculty, and Alumni News Collections and Technical Services has updated their link to New Library Resources. These listings include print, audio-visual, and electronic resources. They maintain four months of listings, with current listings of January through April 2007. http://www.library.uncc.edu/display/?dept=technical&format=open&page=1905 The 2006 General Social Survey has (finally) been released publicly through the ICSPR web site. You can also view a list of all studies added and updated in the last ninety days by visiting the ICPSR Web site at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/. When I interact with potential students, many of whom are working professionals considering a return to school for the doctorate ask about child care options. When I asked about this earlier, I received some good info from you all. However, another question has arisen and I was wondering if any of you have dealt with this. One potential student is interested in classes that meet at night and needs child care in the evening. Have any of you faced this dilemma in terms of child care in the evening hours around the university area? If you have a suggestion, please send me a note that I might share with these potential students. Thanks! (daswinde@uncc.edu) 4.Urban Affairs Books Available Several PPOL students and faculty attended the Urban Affairs Association meeting in Seattle back in April. One of the book companies that were displaying their wares have several books still available and are offering a good discount. Here’s the note they sent out. Feel free to take advantage of this. Dear Urban Affairs Attendees, We met you in last month at the Urban Affairs Association - 37th Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. We have a large selection of display copies left over from the Urban Affairs Association exhibit. If you would like to see a list of these titles, simply e-mail me and request the list (info@bookexhibit.com). We will e-mail the multi-page document to you. All books are offered at 40% off publisher’s list price, subject to availability. The sooner you order, the better chance that your title will still be available. Thank you and we hope to get some excellent books to you at 40% off publisher’s list price. Mark Trocchi Association Book Exhibit 9423 Old Mt. Vernon Road Alexandria, VA 22309 703-619-5030 phone 703-619-5035 fax 5. Student, Faculty, and Alumni News PPOL student Stephen Stemkowski had a manuscript on which he is second author, accepted for publication. The article is entitled: "Thromboprophylaxis rates in US medical centers: success or failure?", and will appear in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Authors: Alpesh Amin, MD (UC Irvine School of Medicine), Stephen Stemkowski, MHA, Jay Lin, PhD, and Guiping Yang, MS. PPOL student Olga Smirnova was a finalist for the Alma Young Emerging Urban Scholars award in the Urban Affairs Association this year. They write up an article in their latest newsletter on Olga and the other finalists that can be viewed at http://www.udel.edu/uaa/2007SpringNewsletter.pdf. In August, Dr. Maureen Brown will be joining the PPOL faculty in the Department of Political Science (coming to us from UNC-Chapel Hill). She just had a new article appear in the latest issue of the _American Review of Public Administration_. Her article is titled: “Understanding E-government Benefits: An Examination of Leading-Edge Local Governments. Dr. David Walters is a professors in the College of Architecture. He is not “technically” a member of the PPOL faculty, though he is serving on the dissertation committees of two of our PPOL students. He works in the urban policy field and has been instrumental in the development of local ordinances on land use. He has just had a new book about urban design, theory, public policy and planning released, published in the United States by the Architectural Press of Oxford, UK. Titled “Designing Community: Charrettes, Master Plans and Form-based Codes,” the book is for architects, landscape architects, planners and students of the three professions. It shows planners how urban design is pivotal to their profession, and brings architects and landscape architects up to date with the public policy and theory-based content of planning that governs their work as urban designers. In detail, the book describes how, in the context of political battles over growth and development, design charrettes, or intensive multi-day workshops, can bring people together using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development master plan. This plan then forms the basis for planning and zoning codes that are founded on the design qualities of the plan rather than abstract formulas for land uses. Finally, PPOL’s sole alum, Dr. Ashley Dunham, continues her work at Chapel Hill in her post-doc position. Last week, she presented a paper at the AcademyHealth meetings on a panel with a number of HSR heavy hitters and a poster presentation. (At this conference, oral papers are all peer-reviewed; even senior scholars usually just have poster sessions.) As noted by our own Dr. Bill Brandon, Ashley’s advisor: "It was nice to hear her introduced as ‘a recent PhD in Public Policy from UNC Charlotte, where she won the Best Dissertation in Social Sciences....’" APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR ERNEST W. WOOD FELLOWSHIP The Indiana University Center on Philanthropy and the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy are inviting applications for the 2007 Ernest W. Wood Fellowship. The fellowship provides up to $10,000 to a doctoral student in the U.S. or Canada pursuing a dissertation related to fundraising and research. http://www.afpnet.org/ka/ka-3.cfm?content_item_id=24096&folder_id=2326 Humanities and social sciences
(FELLOWSHIP) United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Unsolicited grants are offered across a broad range of relevant disciplines, skills, and approaches. Topic areas of interest to the institute include, but are not restricted to, international conflict resolution; diplomacy; negotiation theory; functionalism and "track two" diplomacy; methods of third-party dispute settlement; international law; international organizations and collective security; deterrence and balance of power; arms control; psychological theories about international conflict; the role of nonviolence and nonviolent sanctions; moral and ethical thought about conflict and conflict resolution; and theories about relationships among political institutions, human rights, and conflict. The institute sets no disciplinary restrictions. It welcomes proposals of an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary nature. http://www.usip.org/grants/unsolicited.html First, a reminder: The publicservicecareers.org web site lists numerous jobs, but also lists post-doc opportunities. Make a habit of checking that site not only for public and academic jobs, but also research positions and post-docs. Postdoctoral Position Available -- News/Blog Analysis CONTACT: skiena@cs.sunysb.edu The Lydia project builds a relational model of people, places, and other entities through natural language processing of news sources and the statistical analysis of entity frequencies and co-locations. This model can be used to identify trends and other information flows through this entity network. Please visit http://www.textmap.org/ to see our analysis of recent news and blog postings obtained from over 500 daily online news sources. Lydia gives us a way to measure the temperature of the political, economic, and cultural world. We track hundreds of thousands different entities arising in these news sources. We establish temporal and regional biases in interest, by analyzing the frequency and positive/negative sentiment of these entity references. We identify relationships between news entities, resulting in a massive network where the vertices represent news entities, with pairs of entities linked if there is a substantive relationship between them. A two-year postdoctoral position (potentially extensible to three years or beyond) is now available to join our team. I am looking for someone with a background in either: (1) natural language processing, (2) text mining or data mining, (3) graph algorithms and the science of networks, or (4) data analysis or visualization. The applicant will be expected to use their expertise to improve the quality of our analysis, and help manage a team of roughly ten graduate students as we shift our focus beyond technological issues to questions of what this data means and how we can best exploit it. Applicants *must* be U.S. citizens who will receive their Ph.D. in Computer Science, Linguistics, Economics, or a related field no later than August 2007. If interested, please send your vita and contact information electronically to skiena@cs.sunysb.edu or by mail to: Steven Skiena Department of Computer Science Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400 http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~skiena University of Cincinnati Institute for Policy Research (IPR) I wanted to call your attention to
this vacancy announcement for a Junior Research Associate or Research
Associate in policy analysis at the University of Cincinnati Institute for
Policy Research (IPR). All of the details about the position are at
www.jobsatuc.com . Potential applicants should go there to search for
Vacancy Number 27UC1948. Applications must be submitted electronically
through this website. Thank you for circulating this widely to help us
expand our pool of qualified applicants. We will begin reviewing
applications on June 15. New Mexico - Albuquerque - Assistant/Associate Professor, Masters in Public Health Program (NM, United States) http://www.h-net.org/jobs/display_job.php?jobID=33630 Wayne State University Center for Urban Studies Full-Time Research Associate - position available immediately The Center for Urban Studies, a research center located within Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, seeks an experienced Economic Development professional to serve as a Research Associate. The mission of Wayne State University's Center for Urban Studies is to improve understanding of and provide innovative responses to urban challenges and opportunities. Committed to serving Detroit and its metropolitan area, the Center pursues its mission by conducting and disseminating research, developing policies and programs, and providing training, capacity-building, and technical assistance. POSITION DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES • Conduct study of municipal best practices in Economic Development throughout Southeastern Michigan. • Work with local government officials to develop and implement Best Practices in Economic Development. • Work with local government officials to evaluate the effectiveness of current and future Economic Development practices. • Initiate a research agenda and produce grant proposals in the area of municipal economic development research. • Develop data collection instruments, manage and supervise the construction and maintenance of databases, and conduct statistical analyses and interpret findings. • Interact with a variety of people (business and governmental professionals, academic, community based organizations, etc) to generate business contacts for current and future project collaboration. • Write/edit reports, presentations, or other deliverable documents for various audiences, including municipal officials, organizations, publications, and academia. • Work with other researchers, business professionals, graduate, and undergraduate assistants. • Assist with supervision of graduate and undergraduate assistants. • Other duties as assigned. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS • A Ph.D. or Masters in relevant field (such as public administration, public policy, urban planning, or economics). • Strong knowledge of local economic development strategies, best practices, and implementation. • Experience with telephone, online, and mail survey design and development. • A strong working knowledge of social science research methods and primary data collection procedures (CATI, web-based surveys, mail surveys, in-person interviews, focus groups, etc.) and practicalities of implementation required. • Effective oral and written communication skills, problem resolution, and organizational and analytical skills. • Skilled with PC and/or Mac computers. Experience with word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, and statistical software such as MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, SAS or SPSS is required. • Supervision skills required. Annual competitive salary range is $50,000 to $65,000, based on professional experience. Benefits include health care, dental, vision, life insurance, retirement savings plan, tuition assistance, vacation and illness hours, long-term disability, long term care insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
Interested applicants should: Submit a cover letter, resume/CV, a sample of published writing, and references to http:// jobs.wayne.edu
(Posting number 033913).
To learn more about the Center for Urban Studies at Wayne State University, visit: http://
Dr. David Swindell,
Assoc. Professor & Director Previous PPOL Updates:
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