The BYU Family Studies Center is sponsoring a three-day research conference on Families and Work from March 20-22, 2006.

The conference is posted on PRI’s conference announcements site at:

http://athens.pop.psu.edu/allen/Conference.cfm?EventID=120

For a complete list of conference announcements see:

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

The Population Research Institute has received a job announcement from the Boston College Center for Retirement Research for a Research Economist.

The announcement is posted on PRI’s jobs page at

http://athens.pop.psu.edu/allen/JobAnn.cfm?JobID=96

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

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

You can now access the NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts via RSS. For more information, including an explanation of RSS and how to use it, see the NIH notice.

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

Funding for Faculty Investigators

AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research
- American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

AACR-American Cancer Society Award for Research Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention
- American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award
- American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research-Jane Cook Wright Lectureship
- American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

AACR-Women in Cancer Research-Charlotte Friend Memorial Lectureship
- American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Charles A. Black Award
- Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST)

Global Research Training in Population Health
- Fogarty International Center (FIC)
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

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

Paul B. Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging
- Atlantic Philanthropies
- John A. Hartford Foundation
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)
- Starr Foundation

Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research
- American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

The bulletin boards outside of the Data Archive Office (706 Oswald) have been updated with new information. The bulletin board next to the PRI Library (707 Oswald) includes introductory information about the PRI Data Archive and an invite to our introductory seminar. We highly recommend this session for new demography students.

The bulletin board in between 705 and 706 has information about the Penn State Office for Research Protections (ORP) and IRB review at Penn State. Including an FAQ!

The HRS Rand Version E files announced previously have been added to the PRI HRS SodaPop Collection .

The American prospect, Vol. 16 No. 9, September 2005

Asian and pacific migration journal, Vol. 14 No. 1-2, 2005

Backgrounder: Births to immigrants in America, 1970 to 2002, July 2005

Cityscape, Vol. 8 No. 1, 2005

Center for Applied Social Surveys (CASS) Newsletter, No. 11, September 2004

East-west center Observer, Spring 2005

The Journal of human resources, Vol. 40 No. 3, Summer 2005

Monthly labor review, Vol. 128 No. 6, June 2005

NLS News, No. 05-120, 2005

Research on aging, Vol. 27 No. 5, September 2005

Upjohn Institute employment research: Urban welfare and work experience, Vol. 12 No. 3, July 2005

A recent online edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes an article on the IRB review process, and how to “Play it Safe” - ensuring that valuable research contributions are not blocked from entering professional communication channels (journals, books, presentations, etc.). This article also addresses common complaints (often heard here at Penn State) regarding the IRB process - such as the issue of regulatory overkill in the case of secondary data usage. However, please be advised that while the process can be at times both cumbersome and seemingly unnecessary - rules are indeed, still rules.

Excerpt: “Whatever your thoughts on the wisdom of current practices, be aware that these boards are powerful. They can prevent you from publishing data gathered for a project that was not submitted for consideration. They cannot grant retroactive approval for a project already under way. You might have to forfeit all data collected during your preapproval activities.”

Full text of the article available here.

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

Funding for Faculty Investigators

International Policy Fellowships
- Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation Network)

School of Social Science Visiting Scholars
- Institute for Advanced Study

Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) in Human Cancer for Year 2006
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Training for a New Interdisciplinary Research Workforce [will be reissued in September]
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Funding for Students (Pre-Doctoral or Dissertation)

International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships (IDRF)
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows (F30)
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
- 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 Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Post-Doctoral Opportunities

NAE/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
- National Academy of Education
- Spencer Foundation

Funding Opportunities Open to Faculty and Students

Individual Advanced Research Opportunities
- International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX)

This is the latest release of the RAND HRS files. The RAND HRS Data file is a cleaned and easy-to-use version of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) with derived variables covering a broad range of measures and named consistently across waves. This version contains core data through 2002, corrects known problems, and also includes additional variables for early waves. For more information, see the full HRS release notice. Files are currently available on PopNet, and will be available in SodaPop in the near future.