SSRI Announcements, Week of 3/30/09
Dear colleagues:
Here are the announcements of events, initiatives, funding opportunities, and other news for the week of March 30-April 3, 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
April 6, 2009, 8:00-9:30 p.m., 112 Kern Graduate Center
Title: "The Black Bourgeoisie Meets the Truly Disadvantaged"
Presenter: Dr. Mary Pattillo, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University
Sponsors: Francis M. Sim Memorial Endowment, Department of Sociology, Population Research Institute, Department of African and African American Studies, College of the Liberal Arts, Paul Robeson Cultural Center, and Office of the Vice Provost for Educational Equity
April 7, 2009, 12:00-1:00 p.m., 302 Pond Lab
Title: "Transforming Public Housing: The Mixed Blessings of Mixed-Income Communities"
Presenter: Dr. Mary Pattillo, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University
Sponsors: Francis M. Sim Memorial Endowment, Department of Sociology, Population Research Institute, Department of African and African American Studies, College of the Liberal Arts, Paul Robeson Cultural Center, and Office of the Vice Provost for Educational Equity
Cognitive Neuroscience Talks:
March 27, 2009, 10:00 a.m., 453 Moore
Center for Language Science (CLS) Friday Talk
Title: "Bilingual Aphasia: Perspectives from fMRI, Behavioral Error Analysis and Rehabilitation"
Presenter: Swathi Kiran, Boston University
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April 10, 2009, 12:00-1:00 p.m., 110C Chandlee
Neural and Behavioral Systems (NSB) Group Friday Talk
Title: "Developmental Differences in Neuro-Cognitive Networks for Phonological and Orthographic Processing of Chinese Words"
Presenter: Fan Cao, Northwestern University
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April 13, 2009, 5:00 p.m., 160 Willard
A Combined SCAN-Cognitive Brownbag Talk in Celebration of the Official Opening of the Penn State Social and Life Science Imaging Center (SLIC)
Title: "Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Attention"
Presenter: Zhong-Lin Lu, University of Southern California
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