SSRI Announcements, Week of 3/16/09
Dear colleagues:
Here are the announcements of events, initiatives, funding opportunities, and other news for the week of March 16-20, 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 19, 2009, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 301D Life Sciences
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Inside the Scientists Studio
Monthly Seminar Series presents:
Interactive Interviews with Drs.
Mercedes Richards and Wen-Ching Li, Eberly College of Science, Penn State
March 20, 2009, 12:15-1:15 p.m., The Living Center, 110 Henderson
The Center for Family Research in Diverse Contexts, Friday Teas with
FRDC presents:
Dr. Linda Caldwell, RPTM, and Melissa Tibbits, HDFS
"What Have we Learned about the Role Leisure Plays in Prevention in
South Africa HealthWise Trial?"
View Flyer (.pdf document)
March 25, 2009, noon, 502 Keller
The Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge and the
Leisure, Health and Well-being and Culture and Diversity Labs present:
Yoshitaka Iwasaki, Temple University, "Cultural Activities and Health
among Urban-Dwelling Indigenous Peoples"
View Flyer (.pdf document)
March 26, 2009, 12:00-1:30 p.m., 118 Lewis Katz Building, Dickinson
School of Law
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 present:
John Reilly, MIT Joint Program on Science & Policy of Global Change, "The
Economic Challenges of Addressing Climate Change"
March 31, 2009, 3:35 p.m., 100 Life Sciences (Berg Auditorium)
The Distinguished Lecture Series on Network Science and Research
present:
Ignacio Rodriquez-Iturbe, Princeton University, "River Networks
as Ecological Corridors: A Complex System Perspective for Understanding
the Environment and Response to Change"
Courses
The Use of NVivo 8 in Qualitative Analysis, June 12-14, 2009 (1 credit),
HIED 597B, Schedule # 343693
Instructors: Drs. Kai Schafft and Dorie
Evensen
View Flyer (.docx)
Other
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is
pleased to announce the launch of the Integrated Fertility Survey Series.
The IFSS
project seeks to produce a harmonized dataset of U.S. family and
fertility surveys spanning the 1955-2002 period, including the 1955 and
1960 Growth of American Families (GAF); the 1965 and 1970 National
Fertility Surveys (NFS); and the 1973, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1995, and 2002
National Surveys of Family Growth (NSFG). Penn State University pays
access fees for membership. For questions, comments, or suggestions,
email netmail@icpsr.umich.edu
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