From the Chronicle of Higher Education, advice about writing successful grant proposals. According to the author, it’s not the best ideas, but the best-positioned ideas that get funded.

Penn State University Libraries has trial access to Elsevier’s Scopus database, a competitor to ISI’s Web of Science, through the middle of August.

You are invited to try out the database and let your librarian know what you think. For more information, see the Penn State Life Sciences Library blog post.

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

Behavioral Science Track Award for Rapid Transition (B/START) (R03) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (K12) [deadline extended] – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) – National Institute on Aging (NIA) – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) – Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) – Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)

HIV/AIDS, Drug Use, and Vulnerable Populations in the US (R01) – National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Limited Competition: Addressing Health Disparities in Maternal and Child Health through Community-Based Participatory Research (R03) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Research Associateship Programs – National Academies

Okano, K. (2009). Young women in Japan: Transitions to adulthood. ASAA women in Asia series. London: Routledge.

Fu, T.-h., & Hughes, R. (2009). Ageing in East Asia: Challenges and policies for the twenty-first century. Comparative development and policy in Asia series. London: Routledge.

Sokolovsky, J. (2009). The Cultural Context of Aging. New York: Praeger.

Kluchin, R. M. (2009). Fit to be tied: Sterilization and reproductive rights in America, 1950-1980. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.

Smith, J. A. (2009). The daddy shift: How stay-at-home dads, breadwinning moms, and shared parenting are transforming the American family. Boston: Beacon Press.

The PRI Library has received a position announcement with the Graduate Institute for an Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in Global/International Migration Studies .

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

AHRQ Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation Program (R36) – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (K12) – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) – National Institute on Aging (NIA) – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) – Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) – Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)

Diet, Epigenetic Events, and Cancer Prevention (R01) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) – Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Diet, Epigenetic Events, and Cancer Prevention (R21) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) – Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R21) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) – National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) – National Institute on Aging (NIA) – Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Integrating Biobehavioral and Sociocultural Research to Prevent HIV Transmission and Infection (R01) [NICHD added] – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) – National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

The Senate has approved the nomination of University of Michigan survey researcher Robert Groves as director of the US Census Bureau. For more, see the New York Times article.

The PRI Library has received announcements from RAND for sociologist/demographer positions with their Behavioral and Social Sciences Group.

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

Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R01) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) – National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) – National Institute on Aging (NIA) – Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Mechanisms Underlying the Links between Psychosocial Stress, Aging, the Brain and the Body (R01) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) – National Institute on Aging (NIA)

President Obama has nominated geneticist Francis S. Collins to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH). See the New York Times article for more about Collins’ work and reactions to his nomination.