July 31, 2013
Volume 2, No. 12
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.
Mark Your
Calendars!
Fall Seminar
Schedule
Monthly Center
Meetings
New
Publications on
Display at PRC
New Grants
NIH Grant
Opportunities
NIH
Announcements
NIH Budget
News
2013 KIDS
COUNT Data
Book
►Wednesday, August 21, 8:30 a.m.–3 p.m.: Annual PRC retreat, Caldwell/Smith farm
►Thursday, September 12, 2:30–7 p.m.: Biobehavioral Health Building Dedication and Open
House
The Fall 2013 seminar schedule has been posted on the PRC website
(http://www.prevention.psu.edu/events.index.html); the spring 2013 seminar webpage contains PDF
files of abstracts and presentations for that semester’s speakers.
Join us once again for monthly brown bag meetings of Center researchers and staff, discussing an
array of subjects and hosting several speakers. If you have suggestions for discussion topics, please
contact Ed. A calendar for the fall meetings has been posted on the PRC website
(http://www.prevention.psu.edu/events.index.html
On display in our hallway case: recent articles by Broderick, Jennings, Cleveland, Mallett, Feinberg,
Jones, Caldwell, Greenberg, Bumbarger, Maggs, Small, Turrisi, and many more. If you did not receive
the recent list of publications currently on display, send an email to: prevention@psu.edu.
Among the researchers receiving new grants at the PRC: Damon Jones (NoVo Foundation; Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation) and Mark Feinberg (NIH R21 on Military Family Foundations).
NICHD Program Project Grant (P01) (PAR-13-257) NICHD / NIDA Program Project Grant
Applications (P01) (PAR-13-259) NIDA / Implications of New Digital Media Use for Underage
Drinking, Drinking-Related Behaviors, and Prevention Research (R01/R21) (PA-13-262) NIAAA /
NIMHD Social, Behavioral, Health Services, and Policy Research on Minority Health and Health
Disparities (R01) (RFA-MD-13-006) National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities/
NIH Transformative Research Awards (R01) (RFA-RM-13-008) NIH Roadmap Initiatives The
Common Fund/Office of Strategic Coordination
Now Available: PHS 398 Application Forms and Instructions for Application Due Dates on or after
September 25, 2013 and Updated Application Guides for Electronic Application Forms
(NOT-OD-13-091) NIH / Modifications to NIH’s Planned and Cumulative Inclusion Enrollment
Forms (NOT-OD-13-092) NIH / NIH Encourages Institutions to Develop Individual Development
Plans for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Researchers (NOT-OD-13-093) NIH
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education
and Related Agencies bill currently proposes to provide $31 billion to the National Institutes of
Health, an increase of $307 million from last year, to fund biomedical research. The funding would
allow the NIH to allocate $40 million for the new Brain Research through Application of Innovative
Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Read more: http://tinyurl.com/llzqd9s
The Annie E. Casey Foundation recently released the 2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book, which
provides state and national data on 16 key indicators of child well-being across four domains—
economics, education, health, and family and community—and state rankings. It’s available online at:
http://datacenter.kidscount.org/files/2013KIDSCOUNTDataBook.pdf
CTSI Community Engagement
and Research
Core: RFA
A new RFA has been distributed by Penn State CTSI’s Community Engagement and Research Core
(CERC). Funding is available for pilot projects that address health topics and include community
engagement. Note that Letters of Intent are required by September 1. A copy of the RFA
accompanies this newsletter.
PRC Community
News
BRIAN BUMBARGER provided testimony to the Pennsylvania House on youth violence as a public
health epidemic, and at a briefing on the cost-effectiveness of youth violence and intervention; Brian
was also invited to join the University Council on Engaged Scholarship, a Penn State committee that
seeks to enhance undergraduate experiences by connecting students with community partners to gain
real-world experiences and develop leadership skills—see the EPISCenter website for more
information. MEG SMALL has been accepted into an Executive Education program offered through
Stanford University’s Design School; while there, she will learn more about the school’s
methodologies and techniques and explore ways in which these tools may be applied to prevention
science problems. KELLY CONFER will be honored on November 7 as a recipient of the Carol Clark
Ford Staff Achievement Award (4 p.m., Living Center). Congratulations all! And a PRC welcome to
new EPIS hires Heather Perry, Shawn Peck, Lisa Freese and Kris Glunt!
AND, PRC in the
News
Brothers and Sisters Learn to Build Positive Relationships in SIBS Program (Feinberg, McHale,
Hostetler)
Save the Date
The Centre County United Way Day of Caring has been scheduled for Thursday, October 3. The
PRC is a regular participant—as we receive more information, we’ll share it with you!
Alcohol Abuse
Symposium
Alcohol, Campuses, and Communities: Partnering for Solutions, Monday, Oct. 7, at The Penn Stater
Conference Center Hotel—Jenn Maggs and Meg Small will be among the speakers.
Well, the newsletter took a break this summer, arriving in your email once/month rather than every
Returning to
two weeks . . . and look where that left us! We’ll resume our regular bi-weekly schedule in August.
Regular Schedule
And there will be at least one photo in the next one—promise!!
Send news about awards, new and forthcoming publications and reports, presentations, grants, and other information of interest to
the PRC community to: prevention@psu.edu
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