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

Funding for Faculty Investigators

Beginning Grant-in-Aid (Pennsylvania Delaware Affiliate Program) - American Heart Association

Crime and Justice Research - National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Environmental Health Sciences Core Center Grants - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research via Methodological and Technological Innovation in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R21) - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Grant-in-Aid (Pennsylvania Delaware Affiliate Program) - American Heart Association

Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking: Research for Policy and Practice - National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

National Scientist Development Grant - American Heart Association

The Criminal Justice Response to Sexual Violence: From Adolescence to Late Adulthood - National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Transnational Crime - National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) are soliciting input from the scientific community on innovative and cross-cutting initiatives as part of its “Roadmap” strategic initiatives for 2008. Input must be submitted by November 17, 2006; see the Request for Information for details.

The BJS presents data from 1994-2003 in this report that summarizes the activities of agencies at each stage of the Federal criminal case process.

Data, from the 1999-2000 school year, are available for the SSOCS data (table format). The survey is completed by the school principal.

An ICPSR description of the Wave III data is available. You can also download the data.

I am pleased to announce that Kiet Bang, formerly PRI’s library assistant, will be our new data archivist.

Kiet brings a great deal of experience to the data archive. He has gained familiarity with demographic data and population research during his 5 years at PRI. Prior to coming to Penn State, Kiet worked with serials and government document collections at the University of California, Davis.

While Kiet becomes familiar with the data archive, Lisa Broniszewski, data archive assistant, will be in the office 2 days a week. In order to get the fastest and best response, PRI faculty and graduate students should send data questions to library@pop.psu.edu.

David Weir, Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan and Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research, will be giving a presentation this afternoon at the Center on Population Health and Aging seminar series on Life Course, Health and Aging. Dr. Weir, who is co-director of the Health and Retirement Study will speak on the topic of “Putting more Health in the Health and Retirement Study”. The talk is at 3:00 pm in 302 Pond Lab. Everyone is welcome.

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

Funding for Faculty Investigators

AACR Career Development Awards - American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

AACR-Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award - American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

Biobehavioral Methods to Improve Outcomes Research (R21) - 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)

Developmental and Learning Sciences (DLS) - National Science Foundation (NSF)

Geography and Regional Science - National Science Foundation (NSF)

Geospatial Technology - National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Political Science - National Science Foundation (NSF)

Research for Preventing Violence and Violence-Related Injury (R01) - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Social Science Research on Terrorism - National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure - National Science Foundation (NSF)

Post-Doctoral Opportunities

AACR Research Fellowships - American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

Funding Opportunities Open To Faculty And Students

Cultural Anthropology - National Science Foundation (NSF)

The National Science Foundation has made its new 5-year strategic plan available. The document outlines NSF’s mission, values, and investment priorities.

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