The PRI Library has received a conference announcement from the National Council on the Aging for their 2006 joint conference with the American Society on Aging.

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

http://athens.pop.psu.edu/allen/Conference.cfm?EventID=132

for a complete list of conference announcements see:

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

The PRI Library has received a job annoucement from the University of Wisconin Milwaukee Center on Age & Community for a two year post-doctoral fellowship in aging research.

The announcement is posted on PRI’s jobs website at:

http://athens.pop.psu.edu/allen/JobAnn.cfm?JobID=103

for a complete list of job announcements see:

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

The Nov. 7 issue of GrantWeek includes an update on NSF budget and policies from a presentation to the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA).

Access to Grants Resource Center publications is limited to subscribers; Penn State users can get login information from the Office of Sponsored Programs.

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

Funding for Faculty Investigators

2006 Julie Martin Mid-Career Award in Aging Research
- American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)

Arthur H. Cole Grants in Aid
- Economic History Association

Charlotte Geyer Foundation Grants
- Charlotte Geyer Foundation

Developing Methodologies to Determine the Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Early Childhood and Young Adult Populations
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Justice Responses to Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking
- National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Mini-Grants
- Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

NIDA Announces Availability of Special Funds for Selected Program Announcements Related to Health Disparities Research
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Outcome Evaluations of Violence Prevention Programs
- National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Research Grants
- Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Research on Civic Education at the High School Level
- Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE)

Research on Sexual Violence and Violent Behavior in Corrections
- National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Sepmeyer Research Grant Program
- International Education Research Foundation

Sexual Violence from Adolescence to Late Adulthood: Research, Evaluation, and the Criminal Justice Response
- National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Short-Term Travel Grants Program
- International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX)

Social Neuroscience
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Transnational Crime
- National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Funding for Students (Pre-Doctoral Or Dissertation)

2006 AAFCS Fellowships Program
- American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS)

2006 Summer Program in Research for Graduate Students
- Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research Division

Exploratory Travel and Data Grants
- Economic History Association

Graduate Dissertation Fellowships
- Economic History Association

Post-Doctoral Opportunities

Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Program
- Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research Division

Sylvia Taylor Johnson Minority Fellowship in Educational Measurement
- Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research Division

A new version (2.0) of the HRS Cross-Wave Tracker File was released in late October 2005. The documentation, data, and input files were obtained and added to PopNet UNIX, and have been added to SodaPop (replacing version 1.0).

PRI Library New Acquisitions List

Annie E. Casey Foundation. Center for the Study of Social Policy (Washington,
Kids Count Data Book 2005
HQ792.U5K53 2005
[8143]

Dey, A.N., Bloom, B.
Summary health statistics for U.S. children : National Health Interview Survey,
RA407.3.S847 no. 223
[8146]

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
America’s children: key national indicators of well-being, 2005
HQ792.U5A535 2005
[8147]

Kishor, Sunita (editor)
Focus on gender : collected papers on gender using DHS data
HQ1870.9.F59 2005
[8139]

Nierenberg, Danielle
Happier meals : rethinking the global meat industry
AS36.W6 V.171 2005
[8141]

Ostini, Remo, Nering, Michael L.
Polytomous item response theory models
H61.25.O86 2006
[8142]

Ozden, Caglar, Schiff, Maurice W. (editors)
International migration, remittances, and the brain drain
JV6035.I525 2005
[8138]

Pennsylvania State Health Data Center
Health profile 2005 : Pennsylvania counties
RA407.4.P4G86 2005
[8140]

Poston, Dudley L., Micklin, Michael (editors)
Handbook of population
HB871.H336 2005
[8145]

World Health Organization
World health report : 2005 : make every mother and child count
RA8.A265 2005
[8144]

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

Funding for Faculty Investigators

National Research Initiative: Agricultural Prosperity for Small and Medium-Sized Farms
- Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)

Centers for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education and Prevention (U50)
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

Children’s Environmental Health Awards
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- 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 Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
- Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Grants for Violence-Related Injury Prevention Research: Youth Violence, Suicidal Behavior, Child Maltreatment, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Interdisciplinary Developmental Science Centers for Mental Health (IDSC): Formative Centers (P20)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Interdisciplinary Developmental Science Centers for Mental Health (IDSC): Mature Centers (P50)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

International Research Collaboration on Drug Addiction (R01)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

International Research Ethics Education And Curriculum Development Award (R25)
- Fogarty International Center (FIC)
- National Human Genome Research Institute
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

National Research Initiative: Human Nutrition and Obesity
- Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)

National Research Initiative: Rural Development
- Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)

NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (R13/U13)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Non-injection Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS (R01)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

The NLSY97 Mainfile Rounds 1-7 (1997-2003) Dataset was re-released in October 2005. This release supercedes the June 2005 release. The files were dowloaded from the Center for Human Resource Research and burned to CD-ROM. The files have already been processed and are available via SodaPop. The CD-ROM will be cataloged. The downloaded file had to remain zipped on the CD-ROM due to its large size.

The NCES State Education Data Profiles dynamic Web site provides access to statewide information in elementary/secondary education, postsecondary education, public libraries and selected demographics for all states in the U.S. You can select up to 4 states for comparison. In addition to the statewide data, U.S. averages are also given. Results can graphed on-the-fly. The data used for this data tool comes from many NCES sources and was recently updated with 2004-05 postsecondary education information.

A Vision of Britain Through Time Web site provides a historical view of Britain between 1801 and 2001, including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions. This site was created by the Great Britain Historical GIS Project based in the Department of Geography of the University of Portsmouth. The mission of the Great Britain Historical GIS Project is to provide a spatial framework for historical information about Britain…see “About Historical GIS” for more information.