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RAND Summer Institute Announces Two Conferences on Aging
RAND announces its two annual RAND Summer Institute conferences that address issues facing our aging population: The Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists on July 10–11, and the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging conference on July 12–13, 2017. The conferences will convene at the RAND Corporation headquarters in Santa Monica, California and are sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Scientists Research. Qualified Institute applicants must hold a PhD or have completed two years of a PhD program and be actively working on a dissertation.
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SRCD Call for Letters of Intent for Two New Programs Focusing on State Early Childhood Policy
The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) is seeking letters of intent for two new State Policy Programs that it will be piloting in 2017–2018: the Pre-doctoral State Policy Scholars Program in Early Learning, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Post-doctoral State Policy Fellowship in Early Childhood, funded by the Heising-Simons Foundation. The deadline to submit letters of intent is December 19, 2016. More information about the pilot State Policy Programs is available online. For questions, please email [email protected].
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AAAS Minority Science Writers Internship
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Pitts Family Foundation Minority Science Writers Internship Program is now accepting applications from undergraduates who are interested in journalism as a career and who want to learn about science writing. The internship takes place each summer at the DC headquarters of the AAAS’s Science magazine. Interns spend ten weeks at Science under the guidance of award-winning reporters and editors practicing what science writers do for a living. They have a chance to meet leading scientists, attend conferences and hearings, and cover breaking news.
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Grants Announced for Child Care, Head Start, Family Strengthening, and Behavioral Intervention
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is excited to announce that the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) has forecasted their intent to fund Child Care, Head Start, Family Strengthening, and Behavioral Interventions graduate student dissertation grants in 2017. Please visit grants.gov for the Child Care, Head Start, Family Strengthening, and Behavioral Intervention Scholars forecasts to view the estimated application due dates, sign up for email notifications regarding these grant opportunities, and for links to the expired funding opportunity announcements for the prior fiscal year (if previously funded).
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Prague Summer Schools Call for Applications
SCHOLA EMPIRICA invites applications for the 2017 Prague Summer Schools on the topics below. Prague Summer Schools are seven-day academic programs designed to bring together undergraduate and graduate students of various nationalities and academic backgrounds in a unique academic and cultural environment. Summer School on Crime, Law and Psychology Summer School on European Politics: Interests versus Culture Summer School on China: A World Superpower - Myth or Reality?
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NSF Seeks Grant Proposals for Research Program
The National Science Foundation is seeking grant proposals for its Smart & Connected Communities program. Applicants for funding are expected to pursue research activities studying how inhabitants of communities are increasingly connected by smart technologies. Proposals must meaningfully integrate across both behavioral science and technological research dimensions. Preliminary proposals are due November 30, 2016. For more information, see the program solicitation here.
