April 2, 2012
Volume 1, No. 3
On the web at:
www.prevention.psu.edu
Welcome to PR-eViews, our new source of internal news for the PRC community. This newsletter will
be distributed on a bi-weekly basis to share news, information, upcoming events, and other items with
PRC staff, faculty and research teams. Please send news or announcements to prevention@psu.edu.
New Grants
NIH News
Society for Prevention
Research
Grant Opportunities
New Publications
TIES Spring 2012
Proseminar Series
Congratulations to Tish Jennings on receiving
new U.S. Department of Education/IES
funding for her CARE project (and having a
new website!), and to Sarah Chilenski, who
has been notified that she will receive funding
Tish
Sarah
from the Annie E. Casey Foundation for the
Jennings
Chilenski
Evidence2Success project.
• NSF-NIH Interagency Initiative: Core Techniques and Technologies for
Advancing Big Data Science (BIGDATA) (incl. NIDA) (NOT-GM-12-109)
• Senior Scientist Research Award (K05) (PA-12-048)
• Health Services and Economic Research on the Prevention and Treatment of
Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Abuse (R01) (PA-12-127)—also R03 and R21
Travel grants to attend 2012 SPR Annual Meeting; due April 9.
2012 SPR Minority Annual Meeting Travel Award Program; due April 6.
Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Child Care Research Scholars
grants for dissertation research on child care policy issues. Grant announcement.
‖ ACF, Head Start Graduate Student research grants. Grant announcement. ‖
OJJDP FY 2012 National Juvenile Court Data Archive—collect and maintain the
nation’s primary source of detailed information on delinquency and status
offense cases processed in juvenile courts. ‖ OJJDP FY 2012 Field-Initiated
Research and Evaluation Program—research and evaluation initiatives to
develop effective school programs, policies, and strategies to foster positive youth
development and reduce the risk of victimization and delinquency. ‖
“A Real Education,” Greenberg interview, Shambhala Sun [PDF]
Finlay, Ram, Maggs, & Caldwell, Leisure activities, the social weekend, and
alcohol use: Evidence from a daily study of first-year college students. Journal of
Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (March 2012)
The Training Interdisciplinary Educational Scientists (TIES) program’s spring
proseminar series on evidence-based classroom management training, socialemotional interventions that bridge the research-practice gap, and the
development of psycho-social competence among young Black and Latino boys.
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