The PRI Library has received announcement of an assistant professor position with the University of Minnesota.

The PRI Library has received announcement of the following positions:

• assistant professor position at the University of Southern California.
• researchers positions (2) at Stockholm University.

The PRI Library  has received announcement of the 107th Meeting of the Committee on National Statistics. Public seminar and reception to be held October 31, 2008 in Washington, DC.

The PRI Library has received announcement for a call for papers for the 67th Midwest Political Science Association to be held April 2-5, 2009 in Chicago, IL.

On Thursday, October 9, a training session will examine copyright issues leading to the Open Access movement and the NIH Public Access Mandate as well as provide an explanation of the manuscript submission process and an overview of the copyright addendum, approved by University counsel, to be used with a manuscript submission.

Thursday, October 9
10-11:30 am
Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library

The presentation will also be broadcast on Media Site Live and accessible for 30 days.

Presenters include Marie FitzSimmons, reference librarian, and Esther Dell, reference and interlibrary loan librarian, from the George T. Harrell Library, Penn State Hershey.

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

AERA Minority Fellowships in Education Research – American Educational Research Association (AERA)

AFAR Research Grants – American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)

ASA/NCHS Research Fellowship Program – American Statistical Association (ASA)

ASA/NSF/BLS Research Program – American Statistical Association (ASA) – National Science Foundation (NSF)

Congressional Fellowships in Child Development 2008-2009 – Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)

Ellison Medical Foundation/AFAR Postdoctoral Fellows in Aging Research Program – American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) – Ellison Medical Foundation

Executive Branch Policy Fellowships in Child Development 2008-2009 – Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)

Grand Challenges in Global Health (Round 2) – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – Foundation for the National Institutes of Health – Wellcome Trust

James R. Millar Graduate Student Prize – National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER)

Research on Emergency Medical Services for Children (R01) – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) – National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

Roadmap Transformative R01 Program (R01) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)

The Interaction of HIV, Drug Use, and the Criminal Justice System (R01) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Title VIII Ed Hewett Policy – National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER)

Title VIII National Research Competition – National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER)

Title VIII Short-Term Travel Grants – National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER)

Translating Basic Behavioral and Social Science Discoveries into Interventions to Reduce Obesity: Centers for Behavioral Intervention Development (U01) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) – Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)

The PRI Library has received announcement of assistant professor positions in the sociology departments with the University of Wyoming and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The PRI Library has received announcement for a call for papers for a special demography issue of Marriage and Family Review.

The Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research is accepting nominations for global health ambassadors. The ambassadors are US leaders in global health research who are committed to advocacy for global health research.

Nominations must be submitted by September 15, 2008. For details, see the call for nominations.

The PRI Information Core is offering 2 workshops as part of the PRI Workshop Series this semester:

Locating Demographic Literature will introduce you to the bibliographic databases commonly used in demography and how to locate full text of papers.

Finding Demographic Data will show you how to locate and access secondary data for your research.

For details on these and other PRI workshops, go to help.pop.psu.edu/workshops.

More workshops coming in spring 2009: Research Poster Design and EndNote: Advanced Training

See also: Penn State ITS workshops (includes basic EndNote and RefWorks training)