SSRI Announcements, Week of 10/13/08
Dear colleagues:
Here are the announcements of events, initiatives, funding opportunities, and other news for the week of October 13-17, 2008, 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!
Also, please note that many other notices of events, recent research news, recent awards received by social science faculty, and the like, are placed on the SSRI and CYFC websites every day, so please check them regularly!
These weekly announcements may also be found on both the SSRI and CYFC websites, under Latest News.
Funding Opportunities
Doctoral Fellowships and Post-Doctoral Scholarships in Human Behavior and Social and Economic Change (focusing on the disciplines of psychology, economics, sociology, and applied ethics) at the Jena Graduate School. More information... Applications are due by November 21.
Africana Research Center Fall 2008 Funding Opportunities for faculty and student research proposals. Submission deadline is October 15.
Events
October 14, 2008, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, will talk about the environment, 8 p.m., Recreation Building. More information...
Inside the Scientists' Studio, a new initiative of the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium. View Full Schedule
October 15, 2008, Stress and Health Research Day, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Heritage Hall, HUB. More information...
October 17, 2008, Jeffrey Jacquet, natural gas socioeconomic impact analyst, 2:30-4 p.m., 215 Armsby. Part of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Seminar Series.
Other Announcements
NIH Resubmission Policy Change (important!)--One resubmission now rather than two, taking effect January 25, 2009. More information...
Bookmark This Site: The new address for the Social and Life Sciences Imaging Center (SLIC) is: http://www.imaging.psu.edu. If you bookmarked this site earlier, please be sure to adjust your bookmark to this new address. Thank you.
Call for Abstracts, Neuroscience Research Day at Penn State. Deadline for all poster and paper submissions is November 8, 2008. For more information please contact Christina Keller at ckeller4@hmc.psu.edu. More information...
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