The NIH has announced two Regional Seminars in Program Funding and Grants Administration to be held in 2006:

March 30 - 31, 2006 - Boston, Massachusetts, co-hosted by Harvard University and Mass General Hospital
May 31 - June 1, 2006 – Riverside, California, hosted by University of California, Riverside

For more information, see notice NOT-OD-05-053.

The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.

Funding for Faculty Investigators

AIDS International Training and Research Program
- Fogarty International Center (FIC)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)
- Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)

Biobehavioral Methods to Improve Outcomes Research
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)

Developing Centers for Innovation in Services and Intervention Research (DCISIR)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Health Services Research on the Prevention and Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Howard Temin Award [expiration date extended]
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)

International Science and Education Competitive Grants Program
- Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)

Male Reproductive Health Research Career Development Program
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Funding for Students (Pre-Doctoral or Dissertation)

Spencer Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education
- Spencer Foundation

Post-Doctoral Opportunities

Environmental Leadership Program Fellowship
- Environmental Leadership Program

The Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement (AHAA) Study provides an opportunity to examine the effects of education on adolescent behavior, academic achievement, and cognitive and psychosocial development in the 1990s. It expands the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to include detailed measures of academic progress and high school curriculum. While Add Health is a rich source of data on social contexts and adolescent development, Add Health has limited information on the academic trajectories of youth. Thus, the AHAA study contributes to the Add Health by providing the high school transcripts of Add Health Wave III sample members.

For more information, please see the AHAA Website.

The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics released its annual report, America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2005. The National Center for Education Statistics participates with 19 other federal agencies in Forum activities and contributed education indicators for the report. The report presents a comprehensive look at critical areas of child well-being, including statistical indicators of trends in education, health status, behavior and social environment, and economic security.

For more information please see: http://childstats.gov/americaschildren

The 1985-2003 Family Supplement files - Childbirth & Adoption History and Marriage History - have been added to the PSID SodaPop collection. Please see the PRI PSID SodaPop Web Page for access.

The Population Research Institute has received a job announcement from Addhealth for a project manager.

The announcement is posted on PRI’s jobs page at

http://athens.pop.psu.edu/allen/JobAnn.cfm?JobID=89

For a complete listing of job postings we have received, see

http://athens.pop.psu.edu/allen/JobAnnList.cfm

The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.

Funding for Faculty Investigators

Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Awards
- Humboldt Foundation

Fulbright European Union Scholar-in-Residence Program
- Council for the International Exchange of Scholars

Howard Foundation Fellowships
- Howard Foundation

Humboldt Research Awards
- Humboldt Foundation

Immigration Program RFP
- Russell Sage Foundation

International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)

Project Awards
- Russell Sage Foundation

Sofia Kovalevskaja Award for Outstanding Young Scientists and Scholars
- Humboldt Foundation

TransCoop Programme
- Humboldt Foundation

Trust Program RFP
- Russell Sage Foundation

Visiting Scholars Program
- Russell Sage Foundation

Funding for Students (Pre-Doctoral or Dissertation)

Fall 2006 EPA Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowships For Graduate Environmental Study
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Post-Doctoral Opportunities

Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program
- Radcliffe Institute

Funding Opportunities Open to Faculty and Students

German Chancellor Scholarships
- Humboldt Foundation

Results from the 2004 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) long-term trend assessment were just released. This unique source of data reports on national trends in reading since 1971 and in mathematics since 1973.

Some results…

Nine-year-old students scored higher on average in both subjects in 2004 than in any previous assessment year.

Thirteen-year-old students scored higher in mathematics in 2004 than in any previous assessment year. Reading scores remain statisticallyunchanged from the last assessment in 1999.

Overall performance of 17-year-old students in both subjects remainedstatistically unchanged; however, Black and Hispanic student groups made progress in comparison to the first assessment year.

Many of the differences in achievement between Black or Hispanic students and their White counterparts have narrowed, as the average scores for minority student groups have increased over time.

For full results please visit the NCES NAEP Website

Jen will be attending a GIS workshop in Harrisburg on July 21, 2005. This is an all-day workshop, therefore Jen will not be in the office.

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2000, Examination Files: The Exam component of the 1999-2000 NHANES has been augmented with one new file (Tuberculosis) and with updates of previously released files (Audiometry, Balance). All data and documentation have been added to PopNet and added/updated in SodaPop. Files released by NCHS 7/5/2005.

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2000, Laboratory Files: The Lab component of the 1999-2000 NHANES has been augmented with updates of the previously released files - Lab13AM (Triglycerides) and PHPYPA (Urinary Phthalates). The variable list for the lab component was also updated to reflect these changes. All data and documentation (including the new variable list) has been added to PopNet and updated in SodaPop. Files released by NCHS 7/5/2005.

For the above, please see the NHANES 1999-2000 SodaPop Web Page

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001-2002, Examination Files: The Exam component of the 2001-2002 NHANES has been augmented with new files (Oral Health, Periodontal/Lower, Oral Health, Periodontal/Upper) and with updates of previously released files (Audiometry, Body Measurements). The variable list for the Exam component was also updated to reflect these changes. All data and documentation (including the new variable list) have been added to PopNet and added/updated in SodaPop. Files released by NCHS 7/5/2005.

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001-2002, Laboratory Files: The Lab component of the 2001-2002 NHANES has been augmented with one new file (Lab 40FE_B, Iron and TIBC) and with updates to two files previously released (Lab13AM-Triglycerides, PHPYPA-Urinary Phthalates). The variable list for the Lab component was also updated to reflect these changes. All data and documentation (including the new variable list) have been added to PopNet and added/updated in SodaPop. Files released by NCHS 7/5/2005.

For the above, please see the NHANES 2001-2002 SodaPop Web Page