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

Funding for Faculty Investigators

Cancer Prevention, Control, Behavioral and Population Sciences Career Development Award [deadline extended to March 2, 2006]
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Child Health Research Career Development Award (K12)
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Education Research: Unsolicited Applications
- U.S. Department of Education (ED)

Family Planning Service Delivery Improvement Research
- Office of Population Affairs (OPA)

HIV-Cancer Data Linkage Project
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Intervention Research Grants to Promote the Health of People with Disabilities (R01)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Post-Doctoral Opportunities

NCI Transition Career Development Award (K22) [deadline extended to March 2, 2006]
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Funding Opportunities Open To Faculty And Students

Grants-in-Aid Program
- Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

Survivorship Research Grant
- Lance Armstrong Foundation

From the NBER, a working paper. Between 1898 and 1948, English was the language of instruction for most post-primary grades in Puerto Rican public schools. Since 1949, the language of instruction in all grades has been Spanish.

From NBER, a working paper using data from three waves of Add Health, find that being very attractive reduces a young adult’s (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs.

Committee on the Support for the Thinking Spatially: The Incorporation of Geographic Information Science Across the K-12 Curriculum, Committee on Geography, National Research Council presents “Learning to Think Spatially“. This publication examines how spatial thinking might be incorporated into existing standards-based instruction across the school curriculum. Spatial thinking must be recognized as a fundamental part of K 12 education and as an integrator and a facilitator for problem solving across the curriculum.

BJS presents data collected from a representative sample of felony cases filed in the Nation’s 75 largest counties during May 2002.

MCDF data and documentation for 1983-1988, 2001 and 2002 have been added to the PRI MCDF SodaPop collection (files for 1989-2000 were available previously). NCHS provided 2000-2002 data to PRI prior to “official” release. As a result, the documentation for the 2000-2002 data is incomplete. Complete documentation will be made available with the official release of the data (likely on CD-ROM). PRI will obtain this official version when it becomes available, and will replace the files on PopNet UNIX and SodaPop.

MCDF files for 2000-2002 are available on PopNet UNIX and CD-ROM. The CD-ROM with the 2000-2002 data could be difficult for new MCDF users - the data is ASCII text (no program syntax available) and the documentation is confusing. It is recommended that users wanting to work with these files use SodaPop.

The 2003-2004 Local Education Agency (School District) Universe Survey version 1b files added to PopNet UNIX earlier this week have been prepared and added to the PRI CCD SodaPop collection, replacing the previous version (1a).

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol. 14 No. 2, 2005

Asia Pacific Issues: China and the Depreciating U.S. Dollar, No. 79, January 2006

Backgrounder: Immigrants at Mid-Decade: A Snapshot of America’s Foreign-Born Population in 2005, December 2005

Cityscape: Studies in Assisted Housing, Vol. 8 No. 2, 2005

Current Population Reports: Computer and Internet Use in the United States: 2003, P23-208, October 2005

Current Population Reports: Fertility of American Women: June 2004, P20-555, December 2005

Internati0nal Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 31 No. 4, December 2005

National Data Archive on Child Neglect UPDATA, Vol. 16, Fall 2005

National Longitudinal Survey News, No. 06-123, 2006

National Vital Statistics Reports: Births: Preliminary Data for 2004, Vol. 54 No. 8, December 29, 2005

Population and Development Review, Vol. 31 No. 4, December 2005

Population Briefs: Reports on Population Council Research, Vol. 12 No. 1, January 2006

Population Bulletin: Global Demographic Divide, Vol. 60 No. 4, December 2005

PSU Office of Research Protection Newsletter, Issue 10, January- March 2006

Research Works: High-Performance House Maximizes Green Design, Vol. 3 No. 2, Febryary 2005

UNCRD Newsletter, No. 59, January- June 2005

UpJohn Institute Employment Research, Vol. 13 No. 1, January 2006

The cover story in February 20 issue of Newsweek, Sex and the Single Baby Boomer, reports on the increasing population of middle-aged singles.

The United Nations Population Division has published a new report compiling recommendations related to international migration from UN conferences and summits: Compendium of Recommendations on International Migration and Development: The United Nations Development Agenda and the Global Commission on International Migration Compared (PDF).