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Tuition bills were mailed Sept. 22. If you have not received your tuition statement please visit our Web site at http://www.myuw.washington.edu, call STAR at 548-7827 or contact the Student Accounts Office at 543-4695. Bills paid after Oct. 13 require a late payment fee. Failure to pay will result in cancellation. Go to myuw.washington.edu and sign up for direct deposit today to pay your tuition electronically.
Academic opportunities
CSSS Seed Grants Program
The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) Seed Grants Program announces a new round of seed grants for the year 2000-1. The Seed Grants Program provides funding for promising research at the intersection of statistics and the social sciences. The goal is to stimulate scholarly initiative by encouraging faculty to explore new directions in research and scholarship that contributes at the cutting edge to the development of statistical methods for social scientific problems. Although we encourage collaborative research across disciplines-particularly between statisticians and social scientists-such collaboration is not a formal requirement of the program. We are particularly interested in projects that show a high probability of leading to extramural funding. Thus, the funds will typically be used to pursue pilot studies, feasibility studies, or preliminary research that initiates a larger line of research. A subsequent extramural grant that derives from seed grant funding would be administered through CSSS. Awards will be in the range of $10,000-20,000, and typically include one-month summary salary for a principal investigator and one quarter salary for a research assistant. We expect to make as many as 10 awards on an annual basis.
Eligibility: Only faculty holding the following ranks at the time of the award are eligible to apply: Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Research Professor, Research Associate Professor, and Research Assistant Professor. Faculty with acting appointments at the time of the award are ineligible. Faculty who have received a CSSS award as PIs are ineligible to receive another until three years following the termination of the first. A PI may submit only one proposal per round. Co-PIs may submit more than one proposal, but no more than one of the proposals will be funded. A proposal that is not funded may be resubmitted in a later round only if it is substantially revised or if resubmission is recommended by the review committee.
Research Project Requirements: Research projects must use statistical methods to address a social scientific problem. Strong proposals will use innovative statistical methods to address cutting-edge social scientific research questions. Collaborative interdisciplinary research such as between a social scientist and a statistician is encouraged but not required. All personnel funded by the grant are expected to participate regularly in the CSSS Seminar Series, both by attending and by giving at least one seminar on the project topic. The proposal should indicate which member(s) of the research team will be the primary seminar participants.
External Support: Proposals that show promise for future extramural funding will be given preference. Indeed, PIs who plan to submit an extramural grant proposal based on their Seed Grant proposed project can increase their chances of receiving a Seed Grant Award by guaranteeing that they will submit an extramural proposal through CSSS immediately after the funding period. In such cases, the review committee may grant awards conditional on the PI submitting an external grant within a year of the funding period. In general, support will not be given merely to extend or supplement existing funded research projects. Instead, proposals should seek to initiate new research ideas. An extramural proposal that derives from a project funded by the Seed Grants Program is expected to be administered through CSSS.
Application Form: A cover page and detailed instructions for preparing the four-page proposal can be found on the CSSS web site: http://www.csss.washington.edu/SeedGrants/
Deadline: The deadline for CSSS Seed Grant proposals is September 25, 2000. Awards will be announced by November 25, 2000. Submit proposals to Gayle Gray, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, B-308 Padelford Hall, University of Washington, Box 354322, Seattle, WA 98195.
Questions: Questions on preparing a proposal should be addressed to: Professor Ross L. Matsueda, Associate Director of CSSS, Department of Sociology, Box 353340, 616-2432, matsueda@u.washington.edu.
Institute for Ethnic Studies
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from University of Washington faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the United States. Deadline for applications is November 15th. To request a copy of application guidelines send a message to iesus@u.washington.edu or call Joel Martell at 685-9333.
Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute
The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards. Proposed research must be in alcohol or drug abuse-related fields. The maximum amount considered for funding is $20,000. The next application deadline is 5:00 p.m., October 16,
2000. Questions concerning the application process or suitability of a potential project should be directed to the Institute at 543-0937. Application guidelines are available on the ADAI website at http://depts.washington.edu/adai or by calling ADAI at 543-0937.
Other News
Increased policing of high traffic areas
In the interest of public safety, and with the support of the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, the University of Washington Police Department will be conducting an emphasis patrol during the first two weeks of the fall quarter. Officers will be issuing infractions for vehicle and pedestrian violations in the high traffic areas around campus. The emphasis will run from Sept. 25 through Oct. 6. The key areas of concern will be the entrance areas of 17th NE & NE 45th, 15th NE & NE 40th, and the area at the western end of the Health Sciences Complex where Columbia Road meets 15th NE. Anyone who has additional areas of concern should contact Sgt. Ray Wittmier at 543-9337 (rcop@u.washington.edu).
Health Sciences Express Route Changes
The following changes to the University of Washington Health Sciences Express shuttle bus route will take effect on Oct. 2:
Revised bus schedules will be available on HSE buses, UW transportation commuter centers, Harborview information desk, and on the Web at http://www.washington.edu/admin/hsexpress/. For more information or to request schedule information, please contact the Property and Transport Services office at 685-1522 or via email at hse@u.washington.edu.
Study Participants Sought
If you are between the ages of 18 and 60 and have felt depressed in the last month and/or lost interest in most daily activities you may be eligible to participate in this research study evaluating intensive treatments for depression. Study participants receive:
To be eligible you cannot currently be taking an antidepressant medication and you must be willing to be randomly assigned to a treatment group (either psychotherapy or medication). For more information call the University of Washington Department of Psychology Center for Clinical Research, (206) 685-8500 (confidential phone line).
Surplus Equipment
The following are available for interdepartmental transfer:
Degree Exams
Members of the graduate faculty are invited to attend the following examinations. Chairpersons are denoted in parentheses.
General Examinations
Final Examinations