SSRI Announcements, Week of 3/2/09
Dear colleagues:
Here are the announcements of events, initiatives, funding opportunities, and other news for the week of March 2-6, 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.
Events
March 16, 2009, 11:30 a.m., 113 IST, Cybertorium
Presenter: Duncan Watts, Columbia University and Yahoo! Research
Title: Using the Web to do Social Science
Sponsor: The Distinguished Lecture Series on Network Science and Research
Broadcast live via media site
PDF flyer
Seminar series page
March 26, 2009, 12:00-1:30 p.m., 118 Lewis Katz Building, Dickinson School of Law
Presenter: John Reilly, MIT Joint Program on Science & Policy of Global Change
Title: The Economic Challenges of Addressing Climate Change
Sponsor: The Climate Risk Management Initiative, Dickinson School of
Law, the Environment & Natural Resources Institute, Penn State
Institutes of Energy & the Environment, and The Rock Ethics Institute
Courses
First Summer Session Semester, 2009
Course Title: Academic Writing: Getting it Doing and Doing it Well
Course Number: EDTHP 597A
Room: 303 Rackley
Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 7:05 - 9:35 p.m., and online
Instructor: Dana Mitra, dmitra@psu.edu
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