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Request for Information: NIH Strategic Roadmap Initiatives
The NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives (OPASI) requests input from the scientific community about innovative initiatives for the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, funded through the NIH Common Fund. Initiatives suggested should be transformative, relevant to multiple diseases and address common challenges that are faced by a wide-variety of investigators. This RFI invites ideas on ways to (1) address specific barriers to basic, translational, or clinical research through development of novel tools, technologies, services, etc. and (2) fill specific knowledge gaps that impede research across a broad spectrum of health science. Details about how to submit information are available online at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-RM-08-014.html. Reponses are due by June 2, 2008.
Request for Information: NIH Public Access Policy
The NIH is seeking comments from the community regarding the NIH Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting From NIH-Funded Research (NIH Public Access Policy). Stemming from language included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008, those receiving NIH funding are now required to deposit their peer reviewed manuscripts into the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central. The NIH is particularly interested in responses to the following questions: (1) Do you have recommendations for alternative implementation approaches to those already reflected in the NIH Public Access Policy? (2) In light of the change in law that makes NIH’s public access policy mandatory, do you have recommendations for monitoring and ensuring compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy? (3) In addition to the information already posted at http://publicaccess.nih.gov/communications.htm, what additional information, training or communications related to the NIH Public Access Policy would be helpful to you? Comments are due by May 31. Following this request for information, the NIH will post analysis and results from this RFI for public view onto http://publicaccess.nih.gov by September 30, 2008. Further detail about this information request is available at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-060.html.
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2009 SRCD Biennial Meeting
Denver, Colorado, USA
April 2-4, 2009
The SRCD Governing Council and Program Committee strongly support the interdisciplinary and international character of the Society through the Biennial Meetings. Empirical, theoretical, historical, and methodological submissions are welcome from investigators around the globe in all disciplines related to the field of child development. Submissions by graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged. Special characteristics highly valued in symposia submissions are:
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Policy and communication topics
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Multi- and interdisciplinary representation
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International data presentation and comparison
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All areas of diversity
Coming Soon – 2009 Submission Website: Watch your mailbox and email inbox for the announcement of what’s available.
- Everything you need to know about submitting—view/print a copy of the 2009 Call for Submissions.
- The “Symposium Assistant” website, a new tool to help you organize and/or join a symposium and incorporate the characteristics mentioned above.
- Submitting for the 2009 Biennial Meeting program begins July 1, 2008. Deadlines:
Posters – August 22, 2008
All other formats – August 29, 2008
Registration for the SRCD Biennial Meeting in Denver begins October 1, 2007. Registration deadlines and rates are available at www.srcd.org/2009_registration.html.
Further information about the 2009 SRCD Biennial Meeting is available at www.srcd.org/biennial.html. Questions? Contact (734) 926-0610 or biennialmeeting@srcd.org.
See you in Denver!
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Announcements
*SRCD Launches New Online Career Center*
Introducing SRCD’s new, interactive, online job board, SRCD Career Center. With its focus on employers and professionals in the field of child development, the SRCD Career Center offers its members—and the industry at large—an easy-to-use and highly targeted resource for online employment connections.
Both members and non-members can use the SRCD Career Center to reach qualified candidates . Employers can post jobs online, search for qualified candidates based on specific job criteria, and create an online resume agent to email qualified candidates daily. They also benefit from online reporting that provides job activity statistics.
For job seekers, SRCD Career Center is a free service that provides access to employers and jobs in child development. In addition to posting their resumes, job seekers can browse and view available jobs based on their criteria and save those jobs for later review if they choose. Job seekers can also create a search agent to provide email notifications of jobs that match their criteria.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to search jobs and post your resume online today at http://careers.srcd.org!
Notice to all Members:
To view the all announcements posted on the SRCD website click here.
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SRCD Members
Members: Please remind your colleagues to renew their 2008 membership. SRCD will continue to offer a two year membership rate as well as tiered international rates. SRCD will offer the same benefits you have come to expect with your membership. The first issue of Child Development Perspectives is out this fall. Please check out all member benefits and announcements online at www.srcd.org.
SRCD is now offering additional membership options:
International Member Rates
(Appropriate rate determined by your mailing address)
Resident of Developed Country - $150
Resident of Developing Country - $75
Resident of Emerging Economy - Fee Waived
Recruit an International Member
Recruit a new International Member and receive one year of free membership! The new member must join before you may receive your free membership. To refer a new international member or for more information please email the SRCD membership office.
Join a Caucus
(Membership to SRCD is required & Fee covers a 2-year membership)
To join simply follow the instructions after completing your online membership selection.
Latino Caucus |
Asian Caucus |
Professional member.......................$60 |
Professional member....................$30 |
Student or Early Career member..........$20
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Early Career member...........................$20 Student or International member...Fee waived |
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JSTOR New Features
As part of JSTOR’s continuing efforts to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in technology, we have been pleased to develop several exciting new features that enhance the researcher’s experience while searching and browsing scholarly content within the archive.
As described in our recent newsletter (http://www.jstor.org/news/2007.11/newfeatures.html), these features include enhanced PDFs (a new format that allows users to copy and paste portions of text within full-text PDF articles files), search term highlighting within the article’s pages images, and the JSTOR Sandbox (http://sandbox.jstor.org), a site designed for researchers to preview website innovations and new features in their early stages, which currently hosts our new faceted (category-type) search.
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SRCD Communities of Common Interest (CCI) – Open to the public!
The SRCD Communities of Common Interest were created to help SRCD attain its goals of disseminating research-based knowledge, reflecting multiple disciplines, incorporating cultural and contextual diversity, and maintaining an international focus. The communities are now open to the public! Encourage your nonmember colleagues to sign up for the SRCD Communities of Common Interest (CCI) at http://www.srcd.org.
Subscribing is simple. Visit http://www.srcd.org/listserv.html, where you’ll find a list of communities and an option to subscribe.
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Editorial Transition at Child Development
July 1, 2007 marked the date when the new Incoming Editor and Associate Editors assumed the helm at Child Development. Incoming Associate Editors Margaret Burchinal, John Colombo, Michael Cunningham, Mary Dozier, Andrew Fuligni, Mary Gauvain, Roberta Golinkoff, Nancy G. Guerra, D. Geoffrey Hall, Betsy Hoza, Melanie Killen, Louis J. Moses and Cynthia Stifter, and I now have the privilege of processing new submissions to the journal. (Current CD Editor Lynn Liben and her editorial team are continuing to handle revisions of papers that were initially processed by them.)
Are there any changes in store for Child Development? That is the question that I have received most often since being named Incoming Editor of the journal. Child Development will of course continue to publish the best and most forward-looking research in the developmental sciences. But look for an addition to our existing paper formats: Empirical articles, Reviews, Essays, Child Development and…, From another perspective. The new format is entitled Empirical reports. This format will feature shorter cutting-edge empirical papers that are no longer than 4000 words in length (including text, tables, footnotes, appendices, but excluding abstract and references), which advance research and knowledge in an area through noteworthy findings and/or new methods. For manuscripts that require longer descriptions of methods and results, authors should use the Empirical Article format, which will continue to serve as the main vehicle of publication for papers that appear in CD. (Please note that manuscripts that have been rejected at CD in one of the empirical formats cannot be resubmitted to CD in the other empirical format.) Some other changes are in store for CD as well. Look for these changes when the first issue under our editorship appears in January, 2009.
The Incoming Associate Editors and I have already begun discussing a number of special initiatives for the journal including ideas for Special Sections and Issues. Some special sections are already underway. Kevin Pelphrey and Rebecca Saxe will be co-editing a special section on Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience. Nathan Fox and Sir Michael Rutter will be co-editing a special section on the Effects of Early Experience on Cognitive/Socioemotional Development. Calls for contributions to these and future special sections have been posted on the CD website and will appear in upcoming issues of SRCD Monthly E-news, which is sent electronically to all SRCD members. Contributions to Special Sections and Issues are welcome from all investigators.
Finally, I would like to remind all readers of Child Development that we welcome your participation as a reviewer for the journal. We are proud of the constructive feedback that authors receive from our reviewers and invite you to contribute to the process. Professionals from all disciplines in the developmental sciences are encouraged to become involved. If you have not already registered in our reviewer database and would like to be considered as a potential reviewer for the journal, you may sign up at www.srcd.org/CDsubmit/. And if you have already registered, please take this opportunity to update your information by visiting the same website.
On behalf of the entire team at Child Development, we look forward to working with you during the new editorial term.
Jeffrey J. Lockman
Incoming Editor, Child Development
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« Attention SRCD Members «
NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO REACH NEW AND BROADER AUDIENCES
Share your innovative and exciting information—
Submit to Child Development Perspectives today!
Child Development Perspectives (CDP), edited by Nancy Eisenberg, is currently accepting submissions.Please submit all manuscripts electronically to the SRCD CDP Online Submissions and Review Site at www.srcd.org/CDPsubmit/. Because the goal of the journal is to provide accessible articles that are easily assimilated, articles will be short and, when accepted, will undergo copyediting procedures designed to enhance the degree to which articles communicate to individuals who are not specialists on the targeted topic. Most manuscripts, including author-initiated ones, should be a maximum of 3000 words, not including the cover page, abstract, tables, figures, or references. Although there is no set limit on references, they should not be excessive. On occasion, somewhat longer papers will be invited for submission, with the goal of obtaining short accompanying commentaries. Invited commentary typically will be approximately 1000 words. Commentaries are expected to be stimulating, informative, and to be constructive in their tone. Please contact the CDP Office with any questions at cdp@srcd.org.
CDP ’s mission is to provide accessible, synthetic reports that summarize emerging trends or conclusions within various domains of developmental research and to encourage multidisciplinary and international dialogue on a variety of topics in the developmental sciences.
The journal is designed to serve multiple audiences. The main audience is expected to be SRCD members and other developmental scientists who try to stay abreast of our field’s progress in areas outside their specialties. A second anticipated audience is consumers of research, including policymakers, instructors, and professionals who work with children in clinical or intervention settings who need access to succinct and accessible scientific summaries of developmental research. In recognition of the multidisciplinary and international scope of SRCD, contributors from a variety of disciplines and countries will be included. In addition, our goal is to include articles reflecting SRCD’s commitment to cultural and contextual diversity and application of science to policy.
Articles in the journal will include reviews, commentary, policy- or research-related essays, and groups of papers on a targeted issue. Manuscripts presenting new empirical data are not appropriate for this journal (although a line of published research can be reviewed). Potential contributors who have ideas about a set of three or four papers written from very different perspectives (e.g., a set of papers on a topic that includes authors from different disciplines and countries) may contact the editor with their ideas for feedback. All manuscripts will undergo a review process, although this process may be more abbreviated for some types of submissions (e.g., commentary) than others (e.g., author-initiated submissions).
Please contact Nancy Eisenberg ( nancy.eisenberg@asu.edu) with specific questions regarding your submission.
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Guidelines for Submitting Manuscripts to SRCD Monographs
Effective January 1, 2006, all manuscripts submitted to SRCD Monographs should be submitted electronically to the SRCD Monographs Online Submissions and Review Site at www.srcd.org/monosubmit. In addition, please send 4 hard copies, double-spaced throughout, to Monographs, 2950 S. State Street, Suite 401, Ann Arbor, MI 48108. A copy of every submission and associated correspondence is deposited in the archives of the SRCD. Please contact the Monographs Office with any questions at monographs@srcd.org.
Monographs publishes major reports of developmental research that generates authoritative new findings and uses these to foster a fresh perspective on, or integration of, conceptually significant issues. Manuscripts reporting interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary research on significant developmental questions and those including evidence from diverse cultural, racial, ethnic, national, or other contexts are of particular interest. Interested persons may consult the SRCD website for further details.
The incoming Editor, W. Andrew Collins, strongly encourages potential authors to contact him regarding ideas for Monograph submissions and to submit an informal prospectus before preparing and submitting manuscripts. This can be done by sending e-mail to wcollins@umn.edu .
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JRA Call for Submissions
We invite submissions to the Journal of Research on Adolescence (JRA). The JRA presents empirical and theoretical papers focused on development during adolescence and early adulthood. Studies are featured that use diverse methods including multivariate, longitudinal, demographic, clinical, ethnographic, and experimental analyses. Cross-national, cross-cultural, and studies of gender, ethnic, and racial diversity are of particular interest. We are committed to expanding the presence of qualitative and multi-method research reports, practice-based, policy-oriented research evaluations and reports, and studies related to biological processes. We are now accepting three new paper formats: (a) Brief reports (no more than 12-15 manuscript pages including all references, tables and figures). These reports should be modeled after research reports in journals like Science and should focus on the methods and results. Such reports are particularly appropriate for basic descriptive studies that extend prior work to new populations. This format is also appropriate for cross sectional, correlational studies that test well defined theoretical models. (b) Comprehensive reports of longitudinal studies which can be up to 80-90 manuscript pages. (c) Theoretical papers and comprehensive reviews of the literature similar to papers published in Psychological Review and Psychological Bulletin.
Questions concerning the submission process should be directed to the Managing Editor at jradol@umich.edu.
Editors: Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Bonnie Barbor, Linda Burton, Christy Buchanan, Sumru Erkut, Margaret Kerr, Stephen Russell
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The William T. Grant Foundation is pleased to announce the release of the 2008–2009 William T. Grant Scholars Program Brochure.
The Scholars Program funds promising early-career researchers from diverse disciplines. It supports the professional development of early-career scholars who have demonstrated success in conducting high-quality research and who are seeking to further develop their skills and research. Studies from William T. Grant Scholars contribute to theory, policy, and practice on the settings of young people ages 8 to 25.
The new Brochure contains a description of the program, application guidelines, and a list of current William T. Grant Scholars. The Foundation is particularly interested in reaching applicants of color.
The Scholars Brochure and additional information about the Scholars Program are available on our website at: http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/info-url_nocat3042/info-url_nocat_show.htm?doc_id=76878&attrib_id=4398. Questions about the program should be sent to info@wtgrantfdn.org.
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WT Grant & Spencer Foundation: Request for Proposals
The William T. Grant Foundation and the Spencer Foundation are pleased to announce their joint 2008 Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Development and Improvement of the Measurement of Classroom Quality.
This RFP is one element in our broader effort to build theory and evidence about how classrooms affect youth and how to improve those effects.
To download the RFP visit the William T. Grant Foundation website at: http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/usr_doc/2008_Classroom_Measurement_RFP.doc.
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Editorial Submission Opportunities: Kenzie-Atlanta
Thank You for your interest in submitting editorial for Kenzie - Atlanta. Kenzie - Atlanta is a new publication in Atlanta for children.
We Welcome Your Editorial Submissions!
Below are the submission guidelines and deadlines:
• Word length: 350 words or less
• Include your photo (high resolution tiff or JPEG format)
• Include headline, author’s name and byline information
• Include at end of article a phone number, e-mail address (and website) for readers to
contact for additional information.
• Advertorials will not be accepted.
E-mail editorial submissions to editorial@kenzieatlanta.com
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Upcoming Programs & Conferences
Head Start National Research Conference
June 23-25, 2008
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
Head Start's National Research Conference is a biennial event, which provides practitioners, researchers, administrators, and policy makers involved in Head Start, early childhood, childcare, health care, and administration programs the opportunity to share research that promotes positive development in young children.
Registration Deadlines: You must register for the Conference on or before Friday, June 6, 2008.
Conference Website: www.headstartresearchconf.net
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Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop 2008
June 30 - July 2, 2008
Columbia University School of Social Work
The Columbia University Population Center is currently accepting applications for the Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop. The workshop is designed to familiarize participants with the data available in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, especially the 5 year follow-up data which will become publicly available in summer 2008. The national study follows a birth cohort of (mostly) unmarried parents and their children, providing information about the capabilities, circumstances, and relationships of unwed parents, the wellbeing of their children, and the role of public policy in family formation and parent and child wellbeing.
The workshop is targeted toward young scholars from various social science disciplines, including advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty. Applicants must possess basic quantitative data analysis skills. Ethnic minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. About 25-30 applicants will be selected. Travel costs for out-of-town participants will be reimbursed up to $750.00. (Rooms will be available at $95 and $190 per night).
Additional information about the Fragile Families study and application forms for the Summer Data Workshop are available at: http://www.fragilefamilies.princeton.edu/index.asp. The deadline for applications is March 3, 2008.
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Archives Jean Piaget
18th Advanced Training Course
Cognitive Development, Mechanisms and Constraints
July 3-5, 2008
The Archives Jean Piaget organize July 3-5, 2008 their18th Advanced Course. The aim of this biannualconference is to group the best specialists of a domain around a topic that has a particular relevance for Jean Piaget’s theory and developmental psychology. One of the most important aspects of Piaget’s legacy in the domain of developmental psychology has probably been the theories known as the “neo-piagetian” theories. Among the new proposals and ideas these theories put forward, the idea that cognitive development is underpinned by some increase in cognitive resources, mental power or attentional capacity is of particular relevance when considering the importance of the concept of cognitivere sources and working memory capacity in the contemporary psychology. Thus, the next Advanced Course is entitled Cognitive development, mechanisms and constraints. Its objective is to gather prominent theorists in the field of cognitive development within a neo-piagetian perspective with specialists of the development of working memory, attention and executive functions.
The Advanced Course is open to any scholar, researcher or student interested in cognitive development, working memory and executive functions who are invited to submit posters related to these topics.
Please visit our website www.archivespiaget.ch for inscriptions and submission details or contact Marylene.Bennour@pse.unige.ch.
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20th Biennial ISSBD Meeting
Würzburg, Germany
July 13-17, 2008
We would like to draw your attention to the abstract submission and the 2nd Announcement, which you will find on our website www.issbd2008.com.
We are pleased to inform you that the deadline for the abstract submission has been extended to November 7th, 2007. Please take this opportunity to submit your academic paper and contribute actively to the congress programme.
All relevant information can be found online on www.issbd2008.com. If you wish to receive further programmes or posters, we gladly send them to you upon request.
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Society for Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics (SDBP) - Request for Proposals
Cincinnati, OH
October 16-20, 2008
Hyatt Regency
The SDBP Abstract Submission Program is now open for the Paper, Poster and Concurrent sessions to be presented during our 2008 Annual Meeting.
The deadline for proposals is May 15, 2008.
This year’s lectureship presenter: Thomas H. Wassink, M.D., will discuss the genetics of autism and other developmental disorders.
To submit your abstract online please visit:
http://www.sdbp.org/ws_submission/workshops/main_abstract_menu.cfm
SDBP National Headquarters
6728 Old McLean Village Drive
McLean, VA 22101-3906 USA
Phone: 703-556-9222; Fax: 703-556-8729
email: info@sdbp.org
website: www.sdbp.org
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ASA: Children & Youth Section #31
The Children and Youth section of the American Sociological Association encourages the development and dissemination of sociological perspectives on children. The term "children" broadly includes every human being from infancy to the legal majority.
The Children and Youth Section offers many benefits, including:
- Distinguished Contribution and Student Awards
- Section reception at ASA
- Section sessions and roundtables; graduate students are encouraged to attend and present!
- Child News Newsletter, which includes funding announcements, book reviews, and research reports pertaining to research on children and youth
- Section listserv access
Remember to renew or join section #31 when you register for the 2008 ASA conference! Please also consider supporting graduate students by buying their membership (only $6).
https://www.e-noah.net/ASA/Login.asp
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