Fwd: IPUMS Research Awards | Job Openings

If you have been using IPUMS, maybe you can win an award. If you haven't, you ought to be! They have all the big medical and social data sets available in well-curated formats.

- Ben Littenberg

IPUMS Census and Survey Data  Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear IPUMS User, We are entering our favorite season, one filled with merriment and good cheer. That's right, it's IPUMS Research Award season! We are also looking for new data analysts to join our intrepid team. Please read on for details about both. 2018 IPUMS Research Awards We are pleased to announce the 11th annual IPUMS Research Awards competition. We are looking for papers that use innovative approaches, comparative analyses, and multiple IPUMS datasets. In short, we are looking for papers that use the data to its full potential. We have two new categories this year with awards for published papers and graduate student papers in each category.  USA: Best paper using data from IPUMS USA and/or IPUMS CPS International: Best paper using data from IPUMS International and/or the North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP) Health Surveys: Best paper using data from IPUMS NHIS or IPUMS MEPS Spatial: Best paper using data from IPUMS NHGIS and/or IPUMS Terra Global Health: Best paper using data from IPUMS DHS and/or IPUMS PMA Time Use: Best paper using data from IPUMS Time Use Deadline for submission is February 13, 2018. For more information on eligibility and the submission process, visit the IPUMS Research Awards page.  se it for good! The IPUMS Team IPUMS | University of Minnesota Copyright © 2018 University of Minnesota, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: IPUMS 225 19th Ave South Minneapolis, MN 55455

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Fwd: New NSOC and NHATS Data Released

Beta data! 

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From: NHATS Data <nhatsdata@westat.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 3:21 PM
Subject: New NSOC and NHATS Data Released
To: NHATS Data <nhatsdata@westat.com>

We are pleased to announce that new data from the National Study of Caregiving (NSOC) have been released. This beta data release consists of a cross-sectional file of informal helpers identified in the round 7 National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS). New in this round of NSOC, caregivers to NHATS respondents who died are interviewed about end of life caregiving.

 

We also are re-releasing the NSOC II (2015) file with three updates:

 

·         recoding and replacing the race and ethnicity variables

·         revisions to 3 derived variables related to children of NSOC respondents (any living children; number of living children; number of living children under age 18).

·         revised weights based on removing a small number of ineligible cases from control totals

 

NSOC data are available under our sensitive data procedures; the application can be accessed at https://www.nhatsdata.org/Home/ResDataFiles. Documentation, including a user guide, annotated data collection instruments, and a crosswalk between the instruments and the codebook can be found at https://www.nhats.org.

 

Additional NSOC files, including a longitudinal file following all participants in the 2015 NSOC and a time diary file, will be released at a later date.

 

A final NHATS Round 7 file is also being released at this time and can be downloaded at https://www.nhatsdata.org.

 

Fwd: UVM Student Research Conference Announcement

                                                                Save the Date:    Wednesday, April 17^th,2019,  9:00am-5:00pm, Davis Center, University of Vermont

 

 

Faculty colleagues:

 

I would like to invite you and your students to actively participate in the UVM Student Research Conference (SRC) on April 17, 2019. The SRC is a University-wide event with about 400 students participating across all disciplines from every College  at UVM.

https://www.uvm.edu/four/student-research-conference

 

If you have any questions or if you need assistance please contact Lily Fedorko at lily.fedorko@uvm.edu.

 

Sincerely, 
 
Richard Galbraith, MD, PhD
Vice President for Research

 

 

 

Vermont State Health Assessment 2018

The Vermont State Health Assessment 2018 is a great big data book on the health of Vermonters, including many social determinants of health. It pays special attention to health inequalities. Learn more at http://www.healthvermont.gov/about/reports/state-health-assessment-2018.

-Ben Littenberg

Fwd: Computational Research at UVM: Learn about new opportunities with the Vermont Advanced Computing Core

FYI

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From: Galbraith, Richard A. <Richard.Galbraith@med.uvm.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 11:50 AM
Subject: Computational Research at UVM: Learn about new opportunities with the Vermont Advanced Computing Core
To: <UVMFACULTY@list.uvm.edu>

 

Richard A. Galbraith, MD, PhD
Vice President for Research

 

I would like to invite you to a meeting to discuss new computational research opportunities that the Vermont Advanced Computing Core (VACC) has to offer that will benefit faculty and researchers. The VACC is a University-wide research core facility offering high performance computing through massively parallel and big data computational services to UVM faculty, staff, and students. Members of the VACC Team that includes the Faculty Director and staff from both the Office of the Vice President for Research and Enterprise Technology Services will be available to provide training to faculty, students, and researchers to help them with any of their computational research needs.

 

Wednesday, November 28^th

1:00pm-2:00pm

Waterman Building, room 338 (Memorial Lounge)

 

Agenda:

 

1. Opening remarks from Simeon Ananou, UVM Chief Information Officer
2. DeepGreen: a new massively parallel cluster composed of over 70 GPUs capable of over 8 petaflops of mixed precision calculations based on the NVIDIA Tesla V100 architecture. Its hybrid design can expedite high-throughput artificial intelligence and machine learning workflows and its extreme parallelism will forge new and transformative research pipelines. This project is funded by an award from the National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation.
3. #UVMComputes: a project designed to allow anyone with a laptop to help their fellow faculty and students do research by simply pointing their browser at the #UVMComputes web page. The network of participating laptops becomes an on-campus supercomputer! This project is funded by the first ever gift from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to UVM. One of the Sloan Foundation's goals is to lower the barriers of entry into science for as many people as possible: UVM is excited to be joining the Sloan Foundation in this adventure through the #UVMComputes project.
4. Summary: a description of the current cluster, Bluemoon, and a  brief summary of the technical support and consulting services provided on a wide variety of issues ranging from data storage, software implementation and licensing, and hardware requirements. Introduction of new workshops that will be available to faculty, staff, and students that are new to high performance computing.

 

Please come and bring your students with you to learn more about the VACC.

 

Sincerely, 
 
Richard Galbraith, MD, PhD
Vice President for Research

Getting verb tenses into your manuscript correctly

 Amanda Kennedy came across a great resource for scientific writers, which explains everything including "present perfect tense" and "future perfect tense" with high clarity and low stress.  Tuck away for future use:

Right Verb Tense for Manuscript

Thanks to Anu Garg at https://wordsmith.org for the latest authoritative quote on Authority:

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. -J.B.S. Haldane, scientist (1892-1964)

See the others in the sidebar of this page.

-Ben Littenberg