SSRI Announcements, Week of 4/13/09
Dear colleagues:
Here are the announcements of events, initiatives, funding opportunities, and other news for the week of April 13-17, 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 Opportunities
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Office of Behavioral and
Social Science Research (OBSSR): (R01)
Title: Community Participation in Research (PAR-08-075)
Training opportunity for applicants proposing research on health
promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities that is jointly
conducted by communities and researchers and targets medically
underserved areas (MUAs) and medically underserved populations (MUPs).
The National Institute on Aging (NIA): (K01)
Title: Promoting Careers in Aging and Health Disparities Research (PAR-09-136)
This FOA is designed for career development in support of health
disparities related to aging. It is part of the overall goal of
NIH-supported career development programs to help ensure that a diverse
pool of highly trained scientists are available in adequate numbers and
in appropriate research areas to address the Nation's biomedical,
behavioral, and clinical research needs.
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 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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