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• Rapid Response Data Briefing: Medicare Data

  • When
    September 03, 2025
  •  
    2:30 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

  "Did you know that there are changes proposed for the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)? Join us to learn:

  • What's in the MCBS?
  • Why is MCBS important?
  • What are the risks facing its continued collection and publication?
  • What can you do to help support this essential data resource?

  "This Rapid Response Data Briefing is brought to you by Association of Public Data Users, dataindex.us, and Population Reference Bureau."

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• Navigating Stigma and Ambiguous Loss: A Qualitative Study of Adult Children of Incarcerated Parents

  • When
    September 08, 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    UMD-College Park and hybrid

  From the Maryland Population Research Center

  Melissa Noel, Temple University

  "Navigating Stigma and Ambiguous Loss: A Qualitative Study of Adult Children of Incarcerated Parents"

  September 8, 2025
  from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM
  Where: 2208 LeFrak Hall / Online 

  "The removal of a parent through incarceration is associated with ambiguous loss for children. These children must navigate the physical absence of their parents with no sense of closure or certainty of their return. In addition, children are left with the stigma attached to their parent’s criminality. Utilizing a qualitative approach, I examined how adult children of incarcerated parents navigate ambiguous loss and stigma. My findings indicate that stigma is associated with having an incarcerated parent and can extend into adulthood. However, my presentation will highlight that the emerging adulthood stage sparked new strategies and management techniques to alleviate the effects of ambiguous loss and stigma."

  Melissa E. Noel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University. 

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• Public Screening of Film BBC Refused to Air: “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack”

  • When
    September 09, 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM
  • Location
    Georgetown U, ICC Auditorium

  The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, in partnership with Zeteo, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and Georgetown University Qatar, is screening the documentary “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack”, followed by a public discussion with Mehdi Hasan and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon who recently volunteered in Gaza. The event will take place on September 9 at 6PM in the ICC Auditorium.

  "In June 2025, the BBC controversially refused to air the documentary “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack,” produced for the BBC by the award-winning Basement Films. The ground-breaking documentary is the first forensic investigation into the Israeli military’s systematic and repeated targeting of Gaza’s hospitals. It furthermore examines allegations of the targeting and abuse of doctors and healthcare workers serving in Gaza.

  "Join ACMCU and Zeteo on September 9 at 6pm, in DC,for the first public screening of “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack,” to be followed by a public conversation with famed journalist and Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon who recently volunteered in Gaza."

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• Meeting of the Washington Demographic Society

  • When
    September 11, 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    PRB, Suite 400, 1111 19th Street NW, Washington DC

  Meeting of the Washington Demographic Society

  September 11, 2025 (5:00 pm)

  Location: PRB, Suite 400, 1111 19th Street NW, Washington DC     

  "You are invited to the initial meeting of a new local group for people in the Washington metropolitan area working in, or just interested in the population sciences. 
  
  "Please join us Thursday, Sept 11, 2025, at 5:00 PM, at the office of the Population Reference Bureau, suite 400, 1111 19th Street NW, Washington DC, for a presentation by Prof. Liana Sayer (University of Maryland) on changes in time use since the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by a lively discussion.
  
  "We will also have a brief discussion about future plans for monthly meetings and other events."

  See more information and register on this form. Contact: John Haaga (JGHaaga@gmail.com)
  
  

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• Opportunities for Doing Social-Environmental Research with Little to No Funding

  • When
    September 22, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

  "The webinar “Opportunities for doing social-environmental research with limited to no funding” is an effort initiated by the Board on Environment Change and Society (BECS) at the National Academy of Sciences.

  "Graduate students, post-docs, and early-career faculty engaged in social-environmental research face an unprecedented research landscape. Decreased federal research funding will constrain their ability to continue their personal research programs, from dissertations to faculty research plans. Low-cost primary data collection, re-analysis of secondary data, creative use of available datasets, meta-analysis of existing studies, and localized field work can all be potential solutions. The Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN), the Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS), and the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will host a webinar that showcases practical, low-cost methods to sustain meaningful environmental and societal research during times of limited financial support. The webinar is aimed at supporting graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career faculty in environmental, social science, and associated disciplines."

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• Creating Moves to Opportunity: Mixed Methods Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice

  • When
    September 25, 2025
  •  
    3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

  From the Social Science Research Council

  Creating Moves to Opportunity:
  Mixed Methods Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice

  A talk by:
  Stefanie DeLuca
  Johns Hopkins University

  Thursday, September 25, 2025
  3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Eastern, via Zoom

  "Low-income families often live in neighborhoods with fewer opportunities to get ahead, even when they have housing vouchers that would allow them to move to neighborhoods with more potential for upward mobility. In this SSRC lecture, Johns Hopkins sociologist Stefanie DeLuca will explore why through two randomized interventions. In these experiments, housing voucher recipients were given varying levels of information, financial support, and customized search assistance to move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods. The treatment increased the share of those moving to high-upward-mobility areas from 15% to 53%. Qualitative interviews with participants in the program showed that the intervention increased families' optimism about new neighborhoods and housing, eased demands on families’ time and attention and addressed their specific needs. The combination of the two experiments and the qualitative data reveal that the customized support and search assistance provided by the program navigator staff was the necessary driver of the experimental impacts, not financial assistance or information alone. These findings imply that many low-income families do not necessarily prefer to stay in low-opportunity areas and that barriers to housing searches significantly increase residential segregation by income."

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