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

2010 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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

Africana Research Center Fall 2009 Research Funding – Pennsylvania State University

AHRQ Grant Program for Large or Recurring Conferences (R13) – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

AHRQ Small Grant Program for Conference Support (R13) – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Effects of Gene-Social Environment Interplay on Health and Behavior in Later Life (R01) – National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Exploratory Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R21) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Fellowships at the Davis Center – Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) – National Science Foundation (NSF)

Healthy Aging through Behavioral Economic Analyses of Situations (R01) – National Institute on Aging (NIA)

National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Education and Career Development Program (R25) [deadline extended to Jan. 8, 2010] – National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Network Infrastructure Support for Emerging Behavioral and Social Research Areas in Aging (R24) – National Institute on Aging (NIA)

NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Studying Community Programs to Reduce Childhood Obesity (BAA) – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

University Libraries seminar offerings this fall include seminars on RefWorks and EndNote citation managers.

The PRI Library has received job announcements from:

• Wheaton College has a sociology professor position;
• Rice University has two tenure-track faculty positions in sociology

The PRI Library has received a position announcement from Ohio State University for a senior research associate.

Asia and Pacific Migration Journal; Volume 18 Number 2, 2009.

Asia Pacific Issues; Number 88, May 2009. Are Farmers Always Right? Rethinking Assumptions Guiding Agricultural and Environmental Research in Southeast Asia.

Backgrounder; June 2009. The Environmental Argument for Reducing Immigration to the United States.

Family Relations; Volume 58 Number 3, July 2009.

International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health; Volume 35 Number 2, June 2009.

Journal of Human Resources; Volume 44 Number 3, Summer 2009.

NCHS Data Brief; Number 19, June 2009. Who Marries and When? Age at First Marriage in t United States: 2002.

National Health Statistics Reports; Number 16, July 8, 2009. Health Characteristics Adults Aged 55 Years and Over: United States, 2004-2007.

National Health Statistics Reports; Number 17, July 1, 2009. Health Insurance Coverage Trends, 1959-2007: Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey.

Population Reference Bureau Policy Brief; June 2009. Expanding Contraceptive Choice: Five Promising Innovations.

Reproductive Health Matters; Volume 17 Number 33, May 2009. Task Shifting.

The PRI library has received announcements from:

• Texas Tech University for a project director
• The City University of New York for an assistant/associate professor – Political Economy of Children: Research and Analysis
• Northwestern University for a faculty position in population and health
• Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of NICHD for a health scientist administrator

The PRI library has received announcement of a call for papers for the PAA Annual Meeting to be held April 15-17, 2010 in Dallas, Texas.

The latest issue (volume 9, number 2) of The Stata Journal is now available online to PRI affiliates. To access the journal, log in with your PopNet (UNIX) username and password.

Contents of this issue:

Articles and Columns

• Methods for estimating adjusted risk ratios (P. Cummings)
• Updated tests for small–study effects in meta–analyses (R. M. Harbord, R. J. Harris, and J. A. C. Sterne)
• metandi: Meta–analysis of diagnostic accuracy using hierarchical logistic regression (R. M. Harbord and P. Whiting)
• Two techniques for investigating interactions between treatment and continuous covariates in clinical trials (P. Royston and W. Sauerbrei)
• Multiple imputation of missing values: New features for mim (P. Royston, J. B. Carlin, and I. R. White)
• Further development of flexible parametric models for survival analysis (P. C. Lambert and P. Royston)
• Implementing Horn’s parallel analysis for principal component analysis and factor analysis (A. Dinno)
• The Skillings–Mack test (Friedman test when there are missing data) (M. Chatfield and A. Mander)
• Speaking Stata: I. J. Good and quasi–Bayes smoothing of categorical frequencies (N. J. Cox)
• A statistician’s perspective on “Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist’s Companion”, by Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn–Steffen Pischke (A. Gelman)

Notes and Comments

• Stata tip 76: Separating seasonal time series (N. J. Cox)

Software Updates

Myron Gutmann, the University of Michigan historian who has directed the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) since 2001, has been appointed to head the National Science Foundation’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate.

Gutmann’s research interests include historical population studies, especially relating population to agriculture, the environment, and health; digital preservation; and protecting the confidentiality of research subjects when data about them is made available for secondary use.

Gutmann’s appointment with NSF will begin November 2, 2009.  ICPSR will appoint an interim director and has been a search for permanent director.

See: ICPSR announcement; NSF announcement

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

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans – Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation Network)

Research to Understand and Inform Interventions that Promote the Research Careers of Students in Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences (R01) – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

The Role of Human-Animal Interaction in Child Health and Development (R01) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

The Role of Human-Animal Interaction in Child Health and Development (R03) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)