SSRI Announcements, Week of 10/20/08
Dear colleagues:
We are aware that many of you receive duplicate emails of our announcements. We ask that you bear with us until we get this issue resolved.
Here are the announcements of events, initiatives, funding opportunities, and other news for the week of October 20-24, 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
A new NSF funding mechanism, EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER), will begin January 2009. This new mechanism replaces SGER grants. Please see pages 11-19 or page 47 of this document for details. (.pdf document)
Events
October 22, 2008, Khanjan Mehta will present a talk, "Social Entrepreneurship and Indigenous Knowledge," noon-1:00 p.m., 502 Keller Building. The talk is sponsored by the ICIK Seminar Series and will focus on the basics of social entrepreneurship and lessons learned working on such ventures in East Africa. One such venture is the Mashavu: Networked Health Solutions for the Developing World. There will be discussion following the presentation.
October 28, 2008, the ARC Nelson Mandela Lecture Series presents, Myriam J.A. Chancy, who will speak about, "Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism and Identity: Cross-diasporic Representations of the Rwandan Genocide." This event occurs at 7:00 p.m., The Nittany Lion Inn, Ballroom A-B.
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