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SSRI Announcements, Week of 3/23/09

Dear colleagues:

Here are the announcements of events, initiatives, funding opportunities, and other news for the week of March 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

The NIH has published an announcement updating and expanding the NIH Director's Bridge Award (NDBA). The NDBA provides continued but limited bridge funding for meritorious investigators who just miss the funding cutoff and have minimal support from other sources. The continued funding is intended to permit the Principal Investigator additional time to strengthen a resubmission application. An NDBA recipient receives an R56 award for a single year. NIH received $91.3 million in the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 to support vulnerable research programs.

Events

March 27, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Assembly Room, Nittany Lion Inn
Daryl G. Smith, Professor of Education and Psychology, Claremont Graduate University
"The Imperative of Diversity for Institutional Viability: Building Capacity for a Pluralistic Society"
Sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Educational Equity
For more information, please contact Mike Blanco, mhb4@psu.edu, or Barbara Welshofer, blw7@psu.edu.
No registration required

March 31, 2009, Network Science and Research presentation by Professor Rodriquez-Iturbe (see March 16-20 announcement) will also be broadcast live via media site.

April 6, 2009, 4:00 p.m., 102 Weaver Building
Dr. Paula Fass, University of California Berkeley
"The Child-Centered Family? New Rules in a Post World War II America"
Partial funding provided by The Children, Youth, and Families Consortium
Contact Gary Cross for further information: gsc2@psu.edu

April 7, 2009, 3:35 p.m., 112 Kern Building
Benedetto Piccoli, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone"
"Macroscopic Models for Networked Intelligent Groups"
Part of the Distinguished Lecture Series on Network Science and Research

April 7, 2009, 12:00-1:30 p.m., Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library
Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego
"Is Consensus the Goal of Science (and should it be)?"
Part of 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

Other

Summer Institute on Social/Personality Psychology and Health
July 21-23, 2009
Hilton Rockville Hotel and Executive Meeting Center, Rockville, MD
This National Cancer Institute event is a 3-day, invitation only workshop designed to introduce promising social/personality psychologists to health research.
Application due date: March 31, 2009
Application details, submission form, and agenda
For further information, please contact Wendy Nelson, nelsonw@mail.nih.gov

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