SSRI Announcements, Week of 8/17/09
Dear colleagues:
Here are the announcements of events, initiatives, funding opportunities, and other news for the week of August 17-21, 2009, from the Social Science Research Institute and its units: the Children, Youth, and Families Consortium, Population Research Institute, Survey Research Center, SLEIC, 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.
Upcoming Events
SSRI Events:
August 26, 2009, 12:00-1:00 p.m., 110C Chandlee
The Social, Life, & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC) Imaging Reading/Discussion Group
Dr. Susan Lemieux, MR Physicist at the SLEIC, will lead a discussion
about resting state fMRI and sleep. Two readings may be found on the Center's wiki.
If you do not have access to the wiki, please contact Anna Engels
(ase1@psu.edu) to be added to the list of
authorized users.
Open to all members of the Penn State Community
This group will meet weekly on Wednesdays during fall semester from
12:00-1:00 p.m. in 110C Chandlee. If you have a topic you would like to
discuss, please contact Rick Gilmore (rogilmore@psu.edu).
October 8-9, 2009, Penn State University Park Campus
Penn State's 17th Annual Symposium on Family Issues
Title: Biosocial Research Contributions to Understanding Family Processes and Problems
Speakers: Alison Fleming, University of Toronto at Mississauga; Jenae
Neiderhiser, Penn State; Steven Gangestad, University of New Mexico; and
Guang Guo, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Registration
Sponsor: Grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for
Child Health and Human Development
Other Social Science Events at Penn State:
August 26, 2009, 12:00-1:00 p.m., 208 Chambers
ICIK Seminar
Title: "Oral Tradition: A Sustainable Format for Information Provision in Rural Africa"
Presenter: Sylvia A. Nyana, Social Sciences Librarian, Pattee Library
The seminar will consider whether library collections and services
patterned after those in the West are relevant to rural communities in
Africa.
View Flyer (.pdf document)
September 25, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Hershey Lodge
Title: Addressing Cancer Health Disparities in Appalachia
Presenters: Eugene Lengerich, V.M.D., M.S.; Brenda Kluhsman, Ph.D.,
M.S.S.; Roxanne Parrott, Ph.D.; Oralia Garcia Dominic, Ph.D., M.S.,
M.A.; Betsy Aumiller, D.Ed.; and Northern Appalachia Cancer Network
Coalitions
Registration deadline: August 23, 2009
Other
2009 CTSI Pilot Project Awards
View Announcement (.pdf document)
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