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

Academic Career Award (K07) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) - National Institute on Aging (NIA) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Broad Agency Announcement for Conferences, Workshops, and/or Meetings - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program Award (D43) - Fogarty International Center (FIC)

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

Regional Small Grants Program - University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Young Investigator Development Grants Program - University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR)

The PRI Library has received announcement of a call for papers for the Epidemiologic Reviews 2009 issue. The theme for 2009 is health disparities.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a Dear Colleague letter reminding investigators to include “broader impacts activities” in their proposals (Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog).

The PRI Library has received notice of a position for a research project manager with the National Children’s Study at the University of Utah with the Department of Pediatrics.

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

AERA Research Fellowship in Education and Adolescent Health - American Educational Research Association (AERA) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Gender, Youth and HIV Risk (R21) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Gender, Youth and HIV Risk (R01) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

International Research in Infectious Diseases including AIDS (IRIDA) Program (R01) - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

NIA Administrative Supplements for Translational Research Leading to New Interventions, Health Practices and Policies - National Institute on Aging (NIA)

NIMH Administrative Supplements to Extend Neurobiological and Behavioral Methods, Approaches and Findings to Studies in Late Postnatal Development - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Open Society Fellowship - Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation Network)

NCHS has released the following new and updated NHANES data:

2005-2006 Data (New)
- Questionnaires: Acculturation, Alcohol Use, Drug Use, Sexual Behavior, Sleep Disorders
- Labs: Hepatitis A Antibody; Herpes Simplex Virus I and II; Standard Biochemistry Profile: Creatinine; Triglyceride, LDL, Apo B; Vitamin B12

2003-2004 Data
- Lab: Surplus Sera: Antibody to Cytomegalovirus IgC; Surplus Sera: Antibody to MUMPS; Lab 02 Hepatitis A Antibody (New)
- Questionnaire: Physical Functioning (Updated)

2001-2002 Data (New)
- Lab: Surplus Sera: Antibody to Cytomegalovirus IgG; Surplus Sera: Antibody to MUMPS; Lab 02 Hepatitis A Antibody

1999-2000 Data (New)
- Lab: Surplus Sera: Antibody to Cytomegalovirus IgG; Surplus Sera: Antibody to MUMPS; Lab 02 Hepatitis A Antibody

NHANES I and NHANES II Web Tutorials are now available.

PRI researchers may request the above data from the Data Archivist.

SIPP 2004 Panel, Wave 4-6 Core data files are now available to the PSU community on SodaPop and PopNet.

Topical Modules are also available.

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

AERA Research Fellowship in Education and Adolescent Health - American Educational Research Association (AERA) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Epidemiology of Drug Abuse (R01) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Epidemiology Of Drug Abuse (R03) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Epidemiology Of Drug Abuse (R21) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Gender, Youth and HIV Risk (R21) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Gender, Youth and HIV Risk (R01) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

International Research in Infectious Diseases including AIDS (IRIDA) Program (R01) - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Prevention Research with HIV Positive Individuals (R21) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

Retirement Research Consortium Request for Applications (RFA) - Social Security Administration (SSA)

William T. Grant Scholars Program - William T. Grant Foundation

For a brief period, anyone who searched POPLINE using the search term “abortion” would get 0 results. Inquiries by concerned librarians revealed that POPLINE administrators at Johns Hopkins had made “abortion” a stop word after USAID, the reproductive health database’s funder, expressed concern about a few articles in the database. “Abortion” was quickly restored as a search term after numerous complaints.

For more, see articles at NPR and the Baltimore Sun.

The National Institute on Aging has issued a Request for Information Related to Planned Funding Opportunities for Cognitive Aging Research. Comments are due by April 30.