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

Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging: Training and Demonstration Projects - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Coverage Ideas From the Field - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Drug Abuse Epidemiology and Services Research in Cooperation with the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium (R01) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) (R21) - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Leadership in Aging Fellowship - Brookdale Foundation

New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming (Junior Investigators Program) - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Small Research Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) (R03) - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Utilizing Health Information Technology (IT) to Improve Health Care Quality (R18) - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced that it is modifying its new investigator policy to identify early stage investigators (within 10 years of receiving a terminal degree or completing medical residency).

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a reminder about the Public Access Policy, how investigators should demonstrate compliance, and how the NIH will monitor compliance.

Penn State University Libraries is offering training on the Public Access mandate this Thurs., Oct. 9.

The Population Research Institute also offers a guide to the policy for researchers.

The PRI LIbrary has received announcement of the NDACAN 2009 Summer Research Institute to be held June 8-12 at Cornell University.

The PRI Library has received announcement of the NCES Winter Forum and 22nd Annual Management Information Systems (MIS) Conference to be held in Seattle, Washington from February 16 -20, 2009.

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

In these days of shrinking federal research budgets, a Chronicle of Higher Education article suggests looking to federal contracts in addition to grants for research funding.

The article includes tips on finding opportunities and negotiating contracts.

The University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center and Department of Psychology are seeking applicants for an assistant professor position.

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

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program - U.S. Department of Education (ED)

Page and Johnson Legacy Scholar Grants - Pennsylvania State University

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Elias Zerhouni will step down in October. Zerhouni has been in his position for 6 years, the typical tenure of an NIH director, according to the Chronicle.