The PRI Library has received a position announcement from the CDC Foundation for a senior statistician in demography.

The PRI Library has received announcements from the Census Bureau for its 2007 Summer Internship Program and multiple openings in the Population Division.

The PRI Library has received announcements for two positions with ORC MACRO: Research Associate, Demographic and Health Research and DHS Fellows in Population and Reproductive Health.

Hispanic students must overcome language, cultural, and socioeconomic barriers to succeed in school, according to A Report on the Status of Hispanics in Education: Overcoming a History of Neglect, recently published by the National Education Association (NEA).

Kiet Bang and Tara Murray will be away March 26-30 attending the APLIC-I and PAA meetings. PRI affiliates should send any requests to library@pop.psu.edu and be advised that some requests may take longer than usual to fill.

A new study of trends in the black-white life expectancy gap, published in JAMA, finds that the gap has declined since 1993, but the authors say that further improvements will require more public health efforts. (Reuters via CNN)

New research suggests that African American children may be affected differently than their white counterparts by exposure to tobacco smoke. The research is published in the March issue of Chest. (BBC News)

Summary tables and data from World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision are now available online from the United Nations Population Division. According to the press release, the data show that the population continues to age, and that global population will reach 9 billion by 2050. In addition, the 2006 revision includes improved modeling on HIV/AIDS.

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

Funding for Faculty Investigators

Assessment of Proposed Revisions to the Youth Tobacco Survey: Impact on Measures of Youth Tobacco Use (U1A) - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Integrative Prevention Research for Alcohol Users At-Risk for HIV/AIDS (R01) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Integrative Prevention Research for Alcohol Users At-Risk for HIV/AIDS (R21) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grants (T35) [NICHD added as participating center] - National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) - National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) - National Eye Institute - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) - National Institute on Aging (NIA) - 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)

Women and Sex/Gender Differences in Drug and Alcohol Abuse/Dependence (R01) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Women and Sex/Gender Differences in Drug and Alcohol Abuse/Dependence (R03) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Women and Sex/Gender Differences in Drug and Alcohol Abuse/Dependence (R21) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced the NIH Director’s Bridge Award (NDBA), which will provide limited continued funding to grantees submitting a competing renewal application in order to strengthen a revised application. Read more in the Federal Register notice.