SSRI Announcements, Week of 8/24/09
Dear colleagues:
Here are the announcements of events, initiatives, funding opportunities, and other news for the week of August 24-28, 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:
The Social, Life, & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC) Imaging Reading/Discussion Group
Wednesdays during fall semester 2009: 12:00-1:00 p.m., 110 C Chandlee
Open to all members of the Penn State Community
August 26: Dr. Susan Lemieux, MR Physicist at the SLEIC
Topic: Resting State fMRI and Sleep; two readings may be found on the Center's wiki
September 9: Thomas Neuberger, HUCK Institutes of the Life Sciences
September 16: Rick Gilmore, Director, SLEIC--joint session with Developmental Psychology Proseminar
September 23: Amishi Jha, University of Pennsylvania
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.
To suggest topics for discussion, contact Rick Gilmore,
(rogilmore@psu.edu)
October 5, 2009, 8:45-10:45 a.m., The Living Center, 110 Henderson
SSRI Workshop 1: SSRI Proposal Development: Services & Supports
Speakers: SSRI Directors
In this workshop, presenters will talk about the supports, resources,
and services that the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) offers to
faculty who are developing interdisciplinary research endeavors.
Cost: Free
Refreshments: Continental breakfast beginning at 8:30 a.m.
Registration
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
November 3, 2009
De Jong Lecture in Social Demography
Topic: "Gender and the Reallocation of Time Later in Life"
Discussants include: Frances Goldscheider, University of Maryland, and
Valarie King, The Pennsylvania State University
Sponsors: Gordon F. and Caroline M. De Jong Lectureship in Social
Demography Endowment and supplemented by the Department of Sociology and
the Population Research Institute at Penn State.
Registration
Conference Coordinator: Carolyn Scott, css7@psu.edu
Conference is free
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
Reader Poll:
The SSRI would like your assistance in making our weekly announcements most useful. Please respond to me tmg3@psu.edu.
1. How frequently do you read the SSRI weekly announcement?
2. Does the format make the announcement easy to review? If no, please
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Events, and Other. If there are other topics that should be covered,
please specify:
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resources on the SSRI website? If no, please specify difficulty:
5. Fliers with details about particular announcements are made available
via a link on our website. Would you like to have those fliers attached
to the weekly announcement as well?
6. Would you read an additional section of the announcements that
included abstracts of PSU research?
Thank you for your time in assisting the SSRI to create a good weekly source of information for PSU social scientists.
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