I’ll be conducting a workshop on research poster design for PRI on Feb. 20. In the workshop, I’ll go over the elements of successful posters and demonstrate some techniques in Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft PowerPoint.
Please visit our workshops page for information and to sign up.
The January 27 Washington Post featured a 3-part series on aging. (Free registration is required to view the WP articles.)
In No Country for Old People? Marc Freedman discusses “encore careers” for baby boomers. Freedman has also written a book, Encore: Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life.
In The New Alone, Elizabeth Marquardt discusses how family configurations (divorce, remarriage, “re-divorce”, single-parent childbearing) affect care in old age. Also see Divorce Foretells Child’s Future Care For Elderly Parent (a news story about Adam Davey’s work) and Marquardt’s book about her work with sociologist Norval Glenn, Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce.
In A Hidden Crime, Marie Therese-Connelly sheds light on elder abuse and our lengthening life spans.
The University of Michigan has announced the National Center for Institutional Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
The following grant announcement is new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.
Social/Behavioral Research: Public health implications of mistrust of evidence-based medicine - amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
The Insider’s Guide to Peer Review for Applicants (PDF) provides insight on the grant review process from current and former study section chairs at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Review.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Review has announced the creation of a new Division of Healthcare, Population and Behavioral Sciences. The new division replaces the Division of Clinical and Population-based Studies. The change is intended to realign review in the areas of Behavioral, Social and Population Sciences and AIDS research.
Within the division, the current Health of the Population Integrated Review Group will be split into Epidemiological and Population Sciences and Healthcare Delivery and Methodologies in order to keep the groups at an ideal size.
For details, see the January issue of Peer Review Notes.
Advance Data, number 394, January 22, 2008: Health characteristics of the Asian adult population: United States, 2004-2006
Family Relations, volume 57 number 1, January 2008
Ford Reports, volume number two, 2007: The public square in the a digital age
The Journal of Human Resources, volume 43 number 1, Winter 2008
Monthly Labor Review, volume 130 number 10, October 2007
National Vital Statistics Reports, volume 56 number 5, November 20, 2007 :Deaths: Leading causes for 2004
National Vital Statistics Reports, volume 56 number 6, December 5, 2007 : Births: Data for 2005
National Vital Statistics Reports, volume 56 number 9, December 28, 2007: United States life tables, 2004
NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health, issue number 20, Fall 2007: The economics of “Pay-or-Play” mandates
Office of Research Protection Newsletter, issue 18, January – March 2008
Population Bulletin, volume 62 number 4, December 2007: Immigration and America’s Black Population
Population Headliners, number 320, September-October 2007
Social Forces, volume 86 number 2, December 2007
U.S. Housing Market Conditions, 3rd quarter 2007, November 2007
Wider Angle, No.2/2007: Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it
World Bank Research Digest, volume 2 number 1, Fall 2007: “Fiscal Space” —or fiscal policy under constraints?
The PRI Library has received announcement of an analyst position with the US Census Bureau.
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