SSRI Announcements, Week of 9/28/09
Dear colleagues:
Here are the announcements of events, initiatives, funding opportunities, and other news for the week of September 28-October 2, 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.
Funding
NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
The office of the Associate Vice President for Research is conducting a
downselect for the 2010 NSF IGERT program. Penn State is limited to four
pre-proposals.
Internal Deadlines:
Notice-of-Intent: October 16, 2009; access the form
Pre-Proposal Application to OSVPR: November 2, 2009, 9:00AM;
complete the pre-proposal application
Pre-Proposals Due to NSF: March 2010
Full Proposals Due to NSF: September 2010
Any questions may be directed to
View Announcement from Associate Vice President for Research
NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program
Instrumentation Development and Acquisition
The next solicitation for the NSF MRI program is pending the approval of
a budget by Congress. The office of the Associate Vice President for
Research is therefore delaying the usual internal downselect for this
program since there is a possibility that the program will not be
accepting proposals for the usual annual deadline of January 2010. This
memo is to encourage faculty to begin to consider the program and to be
prepared for the internal downselect since the timeline for the
downselect will possibly be somewhat shorter than usual.
View updates
The most recent information is contained in NSF 09-502
View Announcement from Associate Vice President for Research
Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) (R01)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Recovery Act Limited Competition: Building Sustainable Community-Linked Infrastructure to Enable Health Science Research (RC4)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellows
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Funding opportunity for Ph.D. students conducting research in Latin America or the Caribbean
Information session about the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) Grassroots Development Fellowship
September 30, 2009, 6:00 p.m., 110 Thomas
Upcoming Events -- within the next week
Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)
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
Health Services Research Colloquium
Mondays, fall 2009, 11:30-12:45 p.m., 208 Ford Building
October 5, 2009, Peter Kemper, HPA, PSU
Sponsor: Department of Health Policy & Administration and the Center for
Health Care and Policy Research
View semester schedule
Learning Sciences
Learning Sciences Group Methodology Sessions
Wednesdays, 5:30 -- 6:30 p.m., 121 Chambers
Assessing Learning Performances
September 30, 2009
Presenter: Jonna Kulikowich
The Methodology Center at Penn State
Brown Bag Seminar Series
Thursdays, fall 2009, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., 204 E. Calder Way, Suite 400
October 1, 2009: Michael Cleveland, Methodology Center, Penn State
View semester schedule
NEW EVENT LISTINGS
Center for Population Health and Aging Conference
Cognition, Health & Aging: Integrating Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
October 30-31, 2009, Penn Stater Conference Center, University Park, PA
Session 1: The Challenge: Integrating Cognition and Healthspan
Session 2: Measurement and Design Issues
Session 3: Biosocial Perspectives on Cognition and Health
Session 4: Early Life Course Events and Exposures and Later-life Aging
Session 5: Midlife Events and Exposures and Later life Aging
Session 6: Population Processes, Health and Cognition
View Flyer
To register contact: Alyson Otto, Staff Assistant, Center on Population Health & Aging, (814) 863-6436, aotto@pop.psu.edu
Funding sources: National Institute on Aging / Center on Population Health & Aging (D.F. Alwin, PI); National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (S.M. Hofer, PI); and host institutions (Penn State University, University of Texas-Austin, and University of Victoria, Canada)
Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine
An Overview of the National Survey of Children's Health, with a Look at Pennsylvania's Children
September 30, 2009, Public Health Sciences, ABS Building, Suite 2200, Hershey
Presenter: Stephen Blumberg, Senior Scientist, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Contact: Roger Anderson, rta11@psu.edu
Qualitative Interest Group (QUIG) Brown Bag
Meaning Making through Narrative and Creative Expression: A Qualitative Action Research Study with Type I Diabetes Participants
October 14, 2009, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 502 Keller
Presenter: Heather Stuckey, Penn State College of Medicine
Sponsored by the Penn State Qualitative Interest Group and the
Department of Communications Arts & Sciences
Contact: Michelle Miller-Day, mam32@psu.edu
View Flyer
*UPCOMING EVENT REMINDERS*
Child Study Center at Penn State
Lois Bloom Lecture
ADHD: Endophenotypes, Environmental Risk Factors, and Causal Models
October 8, 2009, 4:15 p.m., Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom
Presenter: Joel Nigg, Oregon Health and Science University
International Center for the Study of Terrorism (ICST) at Penn State
International Speaker Series
Rebuilding Weak and Failed States: Challenges, Problems, and Strategies
October 7, 2009, 4:00 p.m., Nittany Lion Inn, Assembly Room
Presenter: Michael Baranick, National Defense University
View flyer
Frontiers in Motor Control Conference celebrates the inauguration of
Penn State's newly formed Center for Motor Control
October 30, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., The Living Center, 110 Henderson
Presenters: W. Zev Rymer, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago; Michael
Turvey, University of Connecticut; Marjorie Woollacott, University of
Oregon; James Ashton-Miller, University of Michigan
Cost: Free
Lunch and refreshments provided
RSVP requested by September 25, 2009 to Donna Panasiti, dlp18@psu.edu, 814-865-1528
View event description
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, by November 1, 2009
Sponsor: Penn State Institute of the Neurosciences in conjunction with the Central PA Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
View flyer
Symposium on Family Issues at Penn State
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 and several organizations at Penn State
For further information, visit the Symposium home page
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
Presenter: Suzanne Bianchi, University of Maryland
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
Conference Coordinator: Carolyn Scott, css7@psu.edu
Conference is free
Notes
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