SSRI Announcements, Week of 8/31/09
Dear colleagues:
Here are the announcements of events, initiatives, funding opportunities, and other news for the week of August 31-September 4, 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 or Tuesday. 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.
We thank those of you who have responded to our reader poll and would like to encourage others to do so. Our reader poll is again included in this week's announcement.
Upcoming Events
SSRI Events:
SLEIC Imaging Reading/Discussion Group
Wednesdays, fall 2009, 12:00-1:00 p.m., 110 C Chandlee
Open to all members of the Penn State Community
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
Articles related to discussion topics 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.
To suggest topics for discussion, contact Rick Gilmore,
(rogilmore@psu.edu)
SSRI Workshop 1: SSRI Proposal Development: Services & Supports
October 5, 2009, 8:45-10:45 a.m., The Living Center, 110 Henderson
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
Penn State's 17th Annual Symposium on Family Issues
"Biosocial Research Contributions to Understanding Family Processes and
Problems"
October 8-9, 2009, Nittany Lion Inn
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
De Jong Lecture in Social Demography
"Gender and the Reallocation of Time Later in Life"
November 3, 2009, 8:45 am - 11:30, Nittany Lion Inn, Ballroom AB
Discussants include: Frances Goldscheider, University of Maryland and
Valarie King, The Pennsylvania State University
Sponsors: Gordon F. and Caroline M. DeJohn 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:
Health Services Research Colloquium
Mondays, fall 2009, 11:30-12:45 p.m., 208 Ford Building
September 14, 2009, Daniel E. Polsky, PhD,* *Professor and Senior
Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Division of
General Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
September 21, 2009, S. Diane Brannon, PhD, Professor, Pennsylvania
State University, Health Policy & Administration
September 28 , 2009, Jeffrey S. McCullough, PhD, Assistant Professor,
University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN
Sponsor: Department of Health Policy & Administration and the Center for
Health Care and Policy Research
Addressing Cancer Health Disparities in Appalachia
September 25, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Hershey Lodge
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
Neuroscience Research Day
November 22-23, 2009, The Penn Stater
22nd : 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. -faculty discussion - graduate education
6:00-9:00 p.m. - faculty dinner
23rd : 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. - data blitz sessions and poster session
Please RSVP to Tina Keller, ckeller4@hmc.psu.edu
Sponsor: Penn State Institute of the Neurosciences in conjunction with
the Central PA Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
View Flyer
Other
Graduate Minor in Computational Science:
The Graduate Minor in Computational Science provides an opportunity for
graduate students in all colleges and majors to pursue a focused set of
courses that emphasize all aspects of computational science. Additional
core courses are now offered. This Minor would be a valuable program for
almost any graduate student at Penn State.
Tutorials Available through Information Technology Services (ITS)
Penn State faculty, staff, and students may avail themselves of video
tutorials through a University-wide ITS site license. Topics include
Microsoft Office applications, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, SQL,
Drupal, audio and video editing applications, ColdFusion, operating
systems, and hundreds more. These tutorials are taught by industry
experts and available 24/7 for convenient, self-paced learning. In order
to access the tutorials, at no cost, go to
http://its.psu.edu/training/lynda/, where other service requirements, as
well as the dedicated link for the Penn State community, are posted.
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
specify concern:
3. Current topics for the announcements are Funding, Initiatives,
Events, and Other. If there are other topics that should be covered,
please specify:
4. Are you able to locate the announcements, calendars, and funding
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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