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

2009 NIDA Avant-Garde Award Program for HIV/AIDS Research (DP1) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Academic Career Award (K07) – 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)

Biosocial Approaches to Infertility Research (R21) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Fichter Research Grant Competition 2009 – Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR)

Immigration Program RFP – Russell Sage Foundation

Independent Scientist Award (K02) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) – National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) – National Institute on Aging (NIA) – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) – National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) – Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) – National Science Foundation (NSF)

Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute – National Human Genome Research Institute – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) – National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) – National Institute of General Medical Sciences – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) – National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) – National Institute on Aging (NIA) – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) – National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) – Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) – National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) – National Human Genome Research Institute – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) – National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) – National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) – National Institute on Aging (NIA) – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) – National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) – Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Preterm Birth in Nulliparous Women: An Understudied Population at Great Risk (U10) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Small Grants Competition, 2009 Families and Financial Instability – National Center for Marriage Research

Social Inequality Request for Proposals: The Politics of Inequality – Russell Sage Foundation

Researchers at Virginia Tech have created a synthetic US population based on Census data, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus.

The model runs on a supercomputer and assigns demographic characteristics to fake individuals based on real data, as reported in IEEE Spectrum. The model could be used to study any number of social science problems, and researchers are currently using it to study flu transmission.

For more, included selected publications, see the EpiSims project web page.

Penn State Live writes about the role of the Office of Research Protections in research conducted at Penn State.

All research conducted at Penn State, including secondary data analysis, must be reviewed by the ORP. See our page on IRB review of secondary data projects for more information.

The PRI LIbrary has received announcement of the 2009 annual meeting of the Population Association of America to be held April 30 to May 2, 2009 in Detroit, Michigan.

The PRI Library has received announcement of a call for papers for the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting to be held August 8-11, 2009 in San Francisco, California.

The PRI Library has receiveed announcement of the XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference to be held September 27 to October 2, 2009 in Marrakech, Morocco.

The PRI LIbrary has received announcement of the 42nd Annual APLIC Conference, to be held  April 27-29, 2009 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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

Follow-up Public Consultation to Inform the Design of a Possible Longitudinal Cohort Study of the Role of Genes and Environment in Health and Disease: Limited Competition (U01) – National Human Genome Research Institute

MCH Research Network Programs – Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (G13) – National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Partnering Awards to Support Collaborative Research on the Biology of Aging (R01) – National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Preventing Sexual Violence Perpetration: Targeting Modifiable Risk Factors (U01) – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Rapid Response to Requests for Data Analysis – Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Salud America! The RWJF Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Social and Behavioral Interventions to Increase Solid Organ and Tissue Donation – Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Youth Violence Prevention through Economic, Environmental, and Policy Change (U01) – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

The PRI Library has received announcement of postdoctoral fellowship positions with the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education has released Measuring Up 2008: The National Report Card on Higher Education. The report presents indicators on higher education nationally and for all 50 states. The data used to create the indicators can also be downloaded in Excel format.