Drought in Lesotho was associated with higher HIV prevalence in girls 15–19 years old in rural areas and with lower educational attainment and riskier sexual behavior in rural females 15–24 years old. Policy-makers may consider adopting potential mechanisms to mitigate the impact of income shock from natural disasters on populations vulnerable to HIV transmission.
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002727
https://4re.referrals.selectminds.com/elsevier/jobs/scientific-editor-social-science-one-earth-20590
[One Earth, a journal designed to unite the natural, social and applied sciences in pursuit of the knowledge and solutions that will help us address the world’s most pressing socio-environmental challenges will launch in 2019.The Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment is dedicated to creating and advancing legal and policy solutions to climate change and other environmental challenges, and to training the next generation of leaders to address these issues. The program fosters informed debate and analysis to educate the public, policymakers, business leaders, and others on critical environmental issues.
The fellow will conduct research, and legal and policy analysis, relevant to the societal challenges posed by climate engineering technologies, including both large-scale atmospheric CO2 removal and interventions in the Earth’s radiation balance.] https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF04203
https://union-of-concerned-scientists.workable.com/j/4117BF443B
[Following an initial screening, top candidates will co-write a more specific fellowship proposal in coordination with UCS staff for submission to the Kendall Science Fellows Program Advisory Committee by February 1, 2019. Final decisions on the award of this competitive fellowship will be made by the end of February 2019.Deadline: January 6, 2019 or until filled. Review of applications will begin immediately.]
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[We seek a social scientist who can help the UCS Center for Science and Democracy develop a plan for sustaining our movement of scientists and science supporters. The Center helps scientists and science-based organizations engage in democratic dialogue and the public policy process. Over the past two years, our team has trained and mobilized thousands of scientists and other experts in the US to be involved in local and national policy- and decision-making. Our network has helped repel some of the most egregious recent attacks on science-based policy-making, setting the stage for a sustained movement for scientist engagement in public policy as a core element of our democracy. We wish to better understand the mechanisms that enable collective and individual advocacy in the science community, to help us create an enduring effort.
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Qualifications and Experience
Research experience, and nuanced understanding of the science of movement building
Excellent communication and collaboration skills with scientific and non-scientific audiences
Ability to foster partnerships with peer organizations
A doctoral degree in political science or a related field is preferred. A master’s degree with extensive independent research experience may be considered.]
Samantha Basile (Michigan – CLASP), Michael Lerner (Michigan – Political Science/Public Policy), and Keyon Rostamnezhad (Northeastern) have just published a comment about university participation at the UN climate change conference in this week’s issue of Nature.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07610-8
The Erb Institute is now accepting applications for two post-doctoral fellowship positions, including one in partnership with the Center for Positive Organizations. Application deadline is December 31, 2018.
https://erb.umich.edu/faculty-expertise/postdoctoral-fellows/#application
–Courtesy of Jane Vogel–
Deadline December 11
Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet
https://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/84361?src=e&_srTicket=0546aa8066cbb59691be9c16d7c88e92&_srExpires=1541808000
Awards are $25k and $100k for projects.
From Steve Skerlos (MechEng Prof at U-M): “The key to winning this award is to not just be doing routine calculations but actually solving problems nobody has solved before. A lot of BLUElab and Global Health projects could fall in that space. If a group of students needs some advice on how to do well in this program, I can help and would be glad to. Ironically this program was started by my first Ph.D. student (Julie Zimmerman) who modeled it off of the Design Expo we do in Engineering every term. We’ve had several winning teams through BLUElab over the years. The application process has gotten quite bureaucratic recently. -Steve”
He has offered to be a resource to those interested – skerlos@umich.edu
The application is open for the Women in Mathematics and Public Policy Conference until November 19th. The application is open to graduate students and researchers working in STEM and Policy.
The conference will take place from January 22-25 2019 in Los Angeles.
http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/special-events-and-conferences/women-in-mathematics-and-public-policy/?tab=overview
This year’s conference “designed to bring together women in mathematics, science, engineering, and policy to work on pressing research topics in the fields of cybersecurity and climate change.”
The conference will include on-site group projects such as:
Cybersecurity projects: differential privacy, modeling risk triage, mobile digital forensics.
Climate change projects: changing weather extremes, statistical downscaling of climate projections, decadal ocean predictions, and LA groundwater contamination.
Keynote lectures will be given by Lucy Jones (Caltech) and Kristin Lauter (Microsoft Research).
For CoE students, a funding opportunity could be the CoE Professional Co-Curricular Experience Funding Grant. https://studentaffairs.engin.umich.edu/graduate-student-co-curricular-experiences-funding/
For Rackham students, there is the Rackham Professional Development Grant.
Climate Blue and UM’s chapter of the United Nations Association will be co-hosting Mr. Reid Detchon, Senior Advisor for Climate Solutions at the United Nations Foundation as he speaks for the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Day.
All are welcome to attend the event, which will take place on Monday, October 22nd at 7:00pm at the Ford School of Public Policy’s Annenberg Auditorium (Rm. 1110).
The UM Museum of Natural History’s monthly Science Cafe provides opportunities for researchers and the public to discuss scientific topics in a casual setting. This month’s topic is citizen science and how it can benefit research and policy. The event information is here:
https://lsa.umich.edu/ummnh/adults/science-cafes.html
The event is at Conor O’Neill’s and hors d’oeuvres start at 5:30. Museum members can reserve seats, otherwise the seating is first-come, first-served.