SSRI Announcements, Week of 2/23/09
Dear colleagues:
Here are the announcements of events, initiatives, funding opportunities, and other news for the week of February 23-27, 2009, from the Social Science Research Institute and its units: the Children, Youth, and Families Consortium, Population Research Institute, Survey Research Center, SLIC, and Smart Spaces Center.
To be included in this weekly announcement, items must be received by 5 p.m. on Friday; distribution will occur the following Monday. Please send items to Terry Noll (tmg3@psu.edu). Thank you!
These weekly announcements may also be found on both the SSRI and CYFC websites, under Latest News.
Funding Opportunities
Familial Responses to Financial Instability (.pdf document)
Pilot Data Collection RFP
The National Center for Marriage Research, Bowling Green State University
Application deadline: April 6, 2009
Aim: To field test new items using a large, web-based household survey
(Knowledge Networks Panel) to facilitate new measurement development
that will lead to innovative research contributing to theoretical,
conceptual, methodological, or empirical advances about family responses
to financial strain.
Events
February 27, 2009, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., 201 Osmond
Center for Health Care Policy and Research Methods Workshop
Title: Qualitative & Mixed Methods Research in Health Services and Health Policy Research
Presenter: Dr. Shoshanna Sofaer, Baruch College/City University of New York
Registration and agenda
March 4, 2009, 4:00 p.m., 108 Wartik, University Park and CG623 Hershey
The Child Study Center Speaker Series and the Neuroscience Institute Seminar Series
Title: Development of a Dual-Networks Architecture of Top-Down Control: Insights from Functional Connectivity MRI
Presenter: Bradley Schlagger, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology, Radiology, Anatomy and Neurobiology Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University
For further information please contact the Child Study Center at 814-863-5656.
Courses
Summer 2009
ADTED551: Qualitative Data Analysis (.rtf)
Schedule #: 326932
Instructor: Dr. Ian Baptiste
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