The latest edition of the ORP Newsletter, Issue 8 is now available online.

The NIH has produced a list of Frequently Asked Questions for investigators affected by Hurricane Katrina. The NIH also has a Katrina resource page for investigators and institutions.

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

Funding for Faculty Investigators

Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities [expanded]
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Rapid Assessment Post-Impact of Disaster
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Funding for Students (Pre-Doctoral or Dissertation)

East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students
- National Science Foundation (NSF)

The PRI Library has received a conference announcement for the Lehigh University
Area Conference on Scientific Publishing.

The conference is posted on PRI’s conferences website at:

http://athens.pop.psu.edu/allen/Conference.cfm?EventID=124

for a complete list of conferences see:

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

Call for papers for Fourth conference of European Network for the sociological and demographic Study of Divorce, 23-25 June 2006, in Florence, Italy. The topic of the conference will be Family Dynamics and Family structures in a comparative perspective.

Keynote speaker Sara McLanahan (Princeton University).

Proposals for papers to be presented at this conference should be send to the organizer, Jaap Dronkers (jaap.dronkers@iue.it) , before February 1, 2006. Papers with a comparative perspective (cross-national, cross-generational) or with an emphasis on family dynamics are specially welcome. A completed version of the paper should be available early June 2006, two weeks before the conference to promote the discussion.

The Grants Resources Center has received a contract from the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI) to organize 2 one-day conferences on research integrity targeting non-medical institutions and faculty in the social and behavioral sciences. The first conference will be held at the University of Texas San Antonio on October 7, 2005 and the second will be held at the University of Illinois, Chicago on February 17, 2006. For more information, see the GrantWeek article.
(Note: Access to the GRC requires a subscription. Penn State users can get login information from the Office of Sponsored Programs.)

The NIH has issued notices pertaining to grant applications delayed by Hurricane Katrina (NOT-OD-05-072) and NIH grantees whose research has been affected by Hurricane Katrina (NOT-OD-05-073 and NOT-OD-05-074). Delayed receipt dates may also be available for principal investigators involved in relief and recovery efforts (NOT-OD-05-076).

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

Funding for Faculty Investigators

Research on Gender in Science and Engineering FY 2006 (GSE)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)

Data on retail food purchases to support analytical intelligence
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Data Resources Program 2005: Funding for the Analysis of Existing Data
- National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Geographically and Demographically representative sample of U.S. household-based data
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Funding for Students (Pre-Doctoral or Dissertation)

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies
- Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Post-Doctoral Opportunities

Scholars in Health Policy Research Program 2005-2006
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Funding Opportunities Open to Faculty and Students

Page Legacy Scholar Grants
- Pennsylvania State University