August 31, 2013
Volume 2, No. 14
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.
Reminder!
First Seminar,
Fall 2013 Series
Thank you!
Feinberg to
White House
NIH Grant
Opportunities
SSRI/CYFC
Faculty Fellows
Program
W.K. Kellogg
Foundation
Announcement
IdentityFinder
Reminder
Special News!
►Thursday, September 12, 2:30–7 p.m.: Biobehavioral Health Building Dedication and Open
House—2:30–4 p.m., Presentations in 022 BBH; 4:30–5 p.m., Dedication; 5–7 p.m., Open House
September 11, 4 p.m., 022 BBH—Lorah Dorn, Ph.D., Professor of Nursing, Penn State, “The Impact
of Depressive Symptoms and Smoking on Bone Health in Adolescent Girls: Recent Findings and New
Directions in Research”
To Ed and Linda, for again providing a wonderful setting for this year’s retreat, and to everyone who
participated in the strategic planning-related exercises! We’ll be sharing information and ideas
gathered there and working together on the strategic plan over the next several months.
Mark Feinberg has been invited to participate in the White House Champions of Change event for
Prevention and Public Health Leaders on Tuesday, September 10. This is one in a series of White
House events featuring Americans who empower and inspire their communities. Congratulations!
Neuroscience Research on Drug Abuse (R01; also R03, R21) (PA-13-338) NIDA/ Mechanisms of
Alcohol and Stimulant Co-Addiction (R01; also R21) (PA-13-339) NIAAA, NIDA/Bridges to the
Doctorate (R25) (PAR-13-341) National Institute of General Medical Sciences
The SSRI call for proposals for its 2014–2015 SSRI/CYFC Faculty Fellows Program is out—The FFP
supports social science faculty members who wish to develop new expertise that would extend their
research into new domains that align with SSRI priority areas: promoting behavior, health, and
development in children, youth, and families; biological bases of behavior, health, and development;
social and demographic change; and innovative methods. For more information, click here.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has announced a new $5 million initiative to identify and cultivate
innovative programs that promote children's educational success from birth to age 8. The
foundation, which defines family engagement as a shared responsibility of families, schools, and
communities, will award grants of up to $500,000 over a period of one to three years to help support
and expand on-the-ground family engagement efforts, including program design and
implementation, service delivery, and policy development and implementation. Organizations that
have developed effective family engagement models that address obstacles faced by low-income
families — especially those that outline effective teaching strategies, work to align childhood systems
in their communities, and focus on building family economic security — are encouraged to apply.
Reminder: please review files listed by IdentityFinder after each week’s run on your computer and
take steps necessary to handle any concerns/issues. Several college faculty have recently had their
computers breached due to noncompliance and the cost of remediation is expensive.
As of September 13, we will be known as the Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center. More on
this to follow . . . .
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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