SSRI Announcements, Week of 4/6/09
Dear colleagues:
Here are the announcements of events, initiatives, funding opportunities, and other news for the week of April 6-10, 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
Postdoctoral Funding Opportunity:
Two-year interdisciplinary postdoctoral Fellow program
The MacArthur Foundation Network on Transitions to Adulthood
Application deadline: May 1, 2009
Information and application
Funding Resource:
Diabetes Registry -- Patient Recruitment Support for Research
The Diabetes and Obesity Institute is willing to facilitate human
subject recruitment for diabetes research through the Penn State
Diabetes Registry. A description of the registry's use as a potential
research resource is available (.pdf document). Registry users
should feel free to use this text for grant applications.
Contact: Lorraine Mulfinger, Associate Director for Research, PSIDO,
lxm14@psu.edu
Events
April 20, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m., Nittany Lion Inn
SSRI Workshop: Grant Writing and Review Process (NSF Focus)
Continental breakfast beginning at 8:30 a.m.
Event registration
Event description
April 22, 2009, 7:00 p.m., 100 Life Sciences
Title: "What Americans Really Think about Climate Change--Attitude Formation and Change in Response to a Raging Scientific Controversy"
Presenter: Jon Krosnick, University of Michigan
Sponsors: The Climate Risk Management Initiative, Communication Arts &
Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, Schreyer Institute for Teaching
Excellence, and the Social Science Research Institute
PDF Flyer
Other Social Science Events at Penn State:
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
April 14, 2009, noon-1:00 p.m., 101 E. HHD
Title: "Extraction and Storage of DNA from Cheek Swabs and Genotyping Services Available at the Genome Core Facility (formerly the Nucleic Acid Facility)"
Presenter: Deborah Grove, Huck Institutes for Life Sciences at Penn State
Sponsor: College of Health and Human Development
Contact: Amy Mitchell, alb1@psu.edu
April 16, 2009, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., Ballroom D, Nittany Lion Inn
Title: "Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE)"
Presenters: J. Wayne Jones and Katherine Spindler, University of Michigan
The University of Michigan NSF ADVANCE Program
View Flyer (.pdf document)
Registration: Dawn Nelson, dmn3@psu.edu or Stacy Smith, sis60@psu.edu
April 16, 2009, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., 301D Life Sciences
Inside the Scientists Studio Interactive Interviews
Drs. Sue Brantley and Cathy Lyons, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State
Sponsor: The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State
Refreshments will be served
April 17, 2009, 12:15 - 1:15 p.m., The Living Center, 110 Henderson
Title: "Extending the Boundaries of Place: The Connections between Families and Residential Neighborhoods in Diverse Contexts"
Presenter: Stephen Matthews, Sociology, Anthropology, and Demography at Penn State
Sponsor: Friday Teas with FRDC
April 22, 2009, noon - 1:00 p.m., 502 Keller
Title: "Tourism, Wildlife and Indigenous Beliefs in Namibian Communal Conservancies"
Presenters: Duarte Morais and Harry Zinn, Recreation Park and Tourism Management at Penn State
Sponsor: Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge
View Flyer (.pdf document)
April 23, 2009, 4:30 p.m., The Living Center, 110 Henderson
Title: "Dimensional Analysis of Interactions using SASB: Looking beyond the Cross-sectional Lamppost for the Keys to Psychopathology"
Presenter: Lorna Smith Benjamin, The University of Utah
Sponsor: The Child Study Center Speaker Series
April 24, 2009, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. The Psychological Clinic, 453 Moore
Title: "Engaging the Will to Change"
Presenter: Lorna Smith Benjamin, The University of Utah
Sponsor: The Psychological Clinic, Department of Psychology at Penn State
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