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Theodore Schurr was the focus of an article in the Penn Arts & Sciences Magazine (Fall/Winter 2008).
The Demography of Aging Centers Program, which includes PARC, has received the Heidelberg Club International Award for significant contributions to the field of gerontology.
Francesco Billari, Visiting Professor supported by the Penn Distinguished International Scholars Program, had his research on fertilty in Italy featured in an article on 11/4/08 in the French newspaper Le Monde entitled: "Retraites en baisse, naissances en hausse, par Annie Kahn (Retirements Fall, Births Rise by Annie Kahn)."
Jason Schnittker's research was featured in the SAS frontiers newsletter (October 2008)
The Fall 2008 Information Services Newsletter is now online.
Jere Behrman is the recipient of LACEA’S Carlos Díaz-Alejandro Prize 2008 (PDF, 10/18/08)
Camille Zubrinsky Charles has been named the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences (Almanac, 10/7/08)
Latest PSC Working Paper: Greenwood, Jeremy and Nezih Guner. 2008. "Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households." PSC Working Paper Series PSC 08-01.
Hans-Peter Kohler's research on lowest-low fertility was highlighted in a New York Times article (NYT, 6/29/2008)
Samuel Preston's research was highlighted in an Associated Press article, "U.S. Life Expectancy passes 78 as top diseases decline," posted on the CNN website on Health for 6/11/2008.
Virginia Chang has received the Robert Austrian Faculty Award for Health Evaluation Research from the Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (5/28/08)
Samuel Preston was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Almanac, 5/13/08)
Diana Mutz has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (5/2/08)
Mathew Creighton was a PAA 2008 Annual Meeting Poster Session Winner for the poster titled "Moving up or moving on: the role of single-motherhood, household structure, and migration in children's education in Mexico," and an International Sociological Association, Research Committee 28 (Social Stratification and Mobility), Travel Award for the paper "Migrations and generations: single motherhood due to migration and the role of grandparents in children's education in Mexico" (4/30/08)
Olivia Mitchell has been awarded the 2008 Roger F. Murray Prize from the from The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance for her paper, “Demographics and Finances of Baby Boomers.” (Almanac, 4/29/08)
Virginia Chang has been named Junior Investigator of the Year by the Society of General Internal Medicine (Almanac, 4/29/08)
Julie Sochalski has received the Dean's Award for Teaching (Almanac, 4/29/08)
Andrew Fenelon has recieved a Presidential Prize Summer Fellowship (4/28/08)
Neil Mehta has received a Dissertation Competion Fellowship (4/28/08)
Mikko Myrskylä has received a Teece Research Fellowship (4/28/08)
Virginia Chang has been selected as the SGIM Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year. (3/17/08)
Linda Aiken was recognized by NINR for her work examining the impact of nurse staffing on patient outcomes. NINR emphasizes that this research is helping to predict factors involved in hospital nursing care and patient safety; personalize methods to promote safe hospital environments and nurse job satisfaction; and preempt adverse patient outcomes by promoting safe nurse working conditions and staffing levels. (NINR, 3/15/08)
Aureo DePaula has received a University Research Foundation Conference Support Award for the Greater New York Metropolitan Area Econometrics Colloquium. (Almanac, 2/19/08)
Dennis Culhane talks about the need to prevent homelessness. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2/7/08)
Samuel H. Preston’s research on “Intrinsic growth rates and net reproduction rates in the presence of migration,” that appeared in the journal Population and Development Review, was highlighted in Science Letter via NewsRx.com discussing “Population Research: New population research study findings recently were published by researchers at University of Pennsylvania.” (2/5/08)
An article written by John Hoddinott, John A. Maluccio, Jere R. Behrman, Rafael Flores and Reynaldo Martorell titled, “The Impact of Nutrition During Early Childhood on Income, Hours Worked, and Wages of Guatemalan Adults," and published in Number 371 of the Lancet, has been mentioned in several articles. (Reuters, Press Trust India, IRIN News, and BBC News, 2/1/08)Virginia Chang discusses her study on the link between obesity and the location of fast food restaurants vs. full service restaurants. (Washington Post, 1/25/08)
Olivia Mitchell has been awarded the Fidelity Research Institute Pyramid Prize. (Almanac, 1/22/08)
Eduardo Fernandez-Duque and Claudia Valeggia have been awarded National Geographic Society Grants. (Almanac, 1/22/08)
Diana Mutz's article, “Effects of ‘in-your-face’ Television Discourse on Perceptions of Legitimate Opposition,” was published in the November issue of the American Political Science Review. (Almanac, 1/22/08)
Dawn Alley's research on obesity has been published in the November 7, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. (Almanac, 1/22/08)Mark Pauly comments on health insurers' use of clinical evidence to deny payment. (Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/13/08)
Irma Elo has been named Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Health Statistics (Office of Univeristy Communications, 8/30/07). Also see the article titled, "Stats on a Healthier Nation," on page 8 of the Penn Arts & Sciences Magazine for Fall/Winter 2007.
PSC Events
March 17, 2008 PSC Information Services Staff, "Sharing Resources and Bookmarks Online," CITID Workshops, UDAL, McNeil 108-9, 10:30 - 11:30 AM
March 17, 2008 Robert Seyfarth, Professor of Psychology & Dorothy Cheney Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, "Stress, Social Relations, and Reproductive Success in Wild Baboons," PSC Spring 2008 Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pmMarch 19, 2008 Kristen Harknett, "The Relationship between Childbearing and Social Support," Family and Gender Workshop, Sociology Conference Room 113, 8:30 am - 9:45 am
March 24, 2008 John Marcotte, Social Sciences Computing, "Using Technology to Collaborate," CITID Workshops, UDAL, McNeil 108-9, 10:30 - 11:30 AM
March 24, 2008 Robert Mare, Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles, "Educational Assortative Mating in Two Generations," PSC Spring 2008 Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
March 25, 2007 Philip Martin, professor of agricultural economics at the University of California, Davis, Population Reference Bureau’s upcoming Discuss Online: "Managing Unauthorized Migration," http://discuss.prb.org, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
March 28, 2008 Grace Kao, Director, Asian American Studies Program, and Associate Professor of Sociology, and Asian American Studies, Take your Sociology Professor to Lunch, Inn at Penn, Noon (Space is limited--please RSVP in advance to woofs@sas.upenn.edu)Cancelled: March 31, 2008 Nykia M. Perez, PSC Information Services, "Using Adobe Acrobat Professional," PSC Workshops, UDAL, McNeil 108-9, 10:30 - 11:30 am
March 31, 2008 Stephen Shore, Assistant Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, "Changes in the Distribution of Income Volatility," PSC Spring 2008 Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pmApril 2, 2008 Janice Madden, Chair, Graduate Group in Demography, and Professor of Sociology, Real Estate, and Fels Center of Government, "Performance-based Pay and Gender Discrimination in Compensation: The Case of Commissions for Stockbrokers," Family/Gender Workshop, Sociology Conference Room, 8:30 - 9:45 am
April 7, 2008 Kathleen Beegle, Senior Economist Development Research Group, The World Bank, "Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracking Survey," PSC Spring 2008 Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
April 9, 2008 PSC French Breakfast - Petit dejeuner francais, Practice your French and drink some coffee, McNeil Atrium, 9 am
April 14, 2008 PAA Presentations, List of Presenters, PSC Spring 2008 Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
April 16, 2008 Wisconsin Longitudinal Study Training Workshop at PAA in New Orleans, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel Bayside B 4th Floor, 3:30 - 5:30 pm
To RSVP or for more information about the training workshop please contact Carol Roan by email (roan@wisc.edu) or telephone (608 265-6196).Cancelled: April 21, 2008 Library Staff Presentation, "Web Authoring with Google Pages," UDAL, McNeil 108-9, 10:30 - 11:30 AM
April 21, 2008 Sara Curran, Associate Professor of International Studies and Public Affairs, University of Washington, "Migration, Economic Growth & Recession: Do Migrant Networks & Prior Experiences Mitigate Thailand's 1997 Economic Crisis and Post-Crisis Migration Responses?," PSC Spring 2008 Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
April 22, 2008 Dr. Nicole Bates, Director of government relations at the Global Health Council, "Combating Malaria: What More Can We Do Now?" PRB Discuss Online, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
April 24, 2008 Antoinette Tshefu, University of Kinshasa School of Public Health, Democratic Republic of the Congo, "Combating Malaria: A First-Hand Account From Congo," PRB Discuss Online, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
April 28, 2008 Robert Hummer, Professor of Sociology and Director, Population Research Center, University of Texas, "Eliminating Disparities?: Educational Differences in U.S. Adult Mortality in the 21st Century," PSC Spring 2008 Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
May 5, 2008 John Marcotte, Social Sciences Computing, "State of Computing," McNeil Atrium, 10:30 am
June 5, 2008 Erica Soler-Hampejsek, "Early childhood nutrition, age of entry into first grade, and schooling outcomes: Evidence from a longitudinal study in Guatemala," McNeil 167-8, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
June 25, 2008 Discussion: Preparing for the Academic Job Market, McNeil Sociology Conference Room, 12:30 - 2:00 pm.
September 2, 2008 Demography Graduate Student Orientation, McNeil Atrium, 9:00 am
September 8, 2008 Getting Acquainted Meeting with Population Studies Center Researchers, PSC Fall Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
September 11, 2008 PSC Spanish Language Chat, Mcneil Atrium, 3 pm
September 15, 2008 Julien Teitler, Associate Professor of Social Work and Sociology, Columbia University, "Effects of TANF Participation on Marriage," PSC Fall Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
September 15, 2008 "The NIH Public Access Policy & You," PSC Tech Tips, 103 McNeil, 1:10 - 1:25 pm
September 17, 2008 Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania, “Working with Epstein-Zin Preferences: Computation and Likelihood Estimation of DSGE Models with Recursive Utility,” Money Macro Workshop, 395 McNeil, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
September 19, 2008 Wharton Conference on Governance, Leadership and Networks, Center for Leadership and Management Change at the Wharton School, Organized by Mauro F. Guillén and Valery Yakubovich, Hunstman Hall Room 255, 8:30am to 5:30pm
September 22, 2008 Francesco Billari, Distinguished International Research Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, "Why Kids Today? Evidence on the Old-Age Security Motive from the Italian Pension Reform," PSC Fall Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
September 22, 2008 "How to launch the GUI version of Stata on Linux," PSC Tech Tips, 103 McNeil, 1:10 - 1:25 pm
September 24, 2008 Hans-Peter Kohler, Professor of Sociology,"Children - the Pursuit of Happiness?" SAS 60-Second Lectures, Plaza at Locust Walk and 37th Street, (Rain location: Houston Hall Bistro), 11:55am
September 25, 2008 Michael Handel, Northeastern University, "What Do People Do at Work? Results from a New Survey," Labor Lunch Seminar, Steinberg-Dietrich Hall 2034, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
September 25, 2008 PSC Spanish Language Chat, McNeil Atrium, 3:00 pm
September 29, 2008 Janet C. Gornick, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, The City University of New York, "Income Distribution, Weekly Hours of Work, and Time for Child Rearing: The U.S. Experience in a Cross-National Context," PSC Fall Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
September 29, 2008 "Online Resources for Demographers via the Penn Libraries website," PSC Tech Tips, 103 McNeil, 1:10 - 1:25 pm
October 6, 2008 Pekka Martikainen, Senior Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, "Linked population registration data of the Finnish population: Socio-demographic differences in mortality and long-term institutional care," PSC Fall Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
October 6, 2008 "How to copy files via SSH," PSC Tech Tips, 103 McNeil, 1:10 - 1:25 pm (Download the Handout)
October 7, 2008 Exploring the Dynamic Links between Social and Environmental Conditions and Population Health, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street and 22 Plympton Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm Program Includes a lecture by Samuel H. Preston on "Recent Portraits of American Mortality"
October 7, 2008 Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University, Department of Economics, "The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments," International Development Workshop, 122 College Hall, 4:30pm
October 15, 2008 Michael Katz, "The Death of Shorty," Inaugural Breakfast of the Urban Studies Colloquium, College Hall, Room 209, 9:15 am
October 20, 2008 Becky Pettit, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, "The Demographic Implications of the Prison Boom", PSC Fall Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
October 20, 2008 "Copying and Pasting from PDFs," PSC Tech Tips, 103 McNeil, 1:10 - 1:25 pm
October 23, 2008 Roberto Fernandez, MIT, "What Do Employers Do?" Labor Lunch Seminar, Coordinated by Valery Yakubovich, SHDH 2034, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
October 24, 2008 Jerry Jacobs, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, "Interdisciplinarity: A Critical Assessment," The Culture & Interaction Workshop, 103 McNeil Building, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
October 27, 2008 Charles Hirschman, Professor of Sociology, University of Washington "Loosening the Bonds of Ascription: An Evaluation of the Gates Foundation Washington State Achiever Program," PSC Fall Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
October 27, 2008 "How to Create PDFs for free plus a few other PDF tips," PSC Tech Tips, 103 McNeil, 1:10 - 1:25 pm Handout
November 10, 2008 Quincy Thomas Stewart, Department of Sociology, Indiana University,"Labeling Death: The Link between Race, Hypertension Prevalence, and Hypertension Related Death," PSC Fall Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
November 10, 2008 "How to read RSS feeds in Firefox and Thunderbird," PSC Tech Tips, 103 McNeil, 1:10 - 1:25 pm Handout
November 11, 2008 French Breakfast, McNeil Atrium, 9:00 am
November 17, 2008 Stephane Helleringer, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, "Do Sexual Behavior Surveys Underestimate the Impact of Multiple Concurrent Partnerships on HIV Spread? Some Evidence From a Sexual Network Survey Conducted on Likoma Island (Malawi)," PSC Fall Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
November 17, 2008 "Using Google Reader to get tailored News," PSC Tech Tips, 103 McNeil, 1:10 - 1:25 pm
November 18, 2008 Tukufu Zuberi, "Human Equality and Respect: Ending Racism, Discrimination and Hate," Huntsman Program, Huntsman Hall 270, 5:00 pm
November 20, 2008 Doug Massey, Princeton Univeristy, "The Racialization of Latinos in the United States," Guest Speaker at the Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Workshop, Africana Studies seminar room, 3rd floor, 3401 Walnut St, Wing A, 2:30 - 4:30 pm
November 24, 2008 Martin Kohli, Professor of Sociology, European University Institute,"Transfers of money and time among adult family generations: Patterns across Europe", PSC Fall Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
November 24, 2008 "A Couple of Useful Firefox Add-Ons," PSC Tech Tips, 103 McNeil, 1:10 - 1:25 pm
December 1, 2008 John MacDonald, Department of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania, “Family and Neighborhood Effects on Youth Violence: The Role of Business Improvement Districts in Los Angeles,” PSC Fall Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
December 1, 2008 "Store & Share Bookmarks Online with del.icio.us," PSC Tech Tips, 103 McNeil, 1:10 - 1:25 pm
PSC Announcements
2008 Annual Workshop on Crime and Population Dynamics, June 2-3, 2008, Maryland Population Research Center, Near Baltimore, Maryland. Application deadline is 11:59pm (U.S. Eastern Time) on May 1, 2008. PSC Research Associates and students interested in attending should contact Julia Crane, Herb Smith or Janice Madden.
Other Events
March 7, 2008 Ivan Chase, Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook, "The Origins of Social Organization: Evidence from Animal Dominance Hierarchies," Culture & Interaction Workshop, McNeil 167-8, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
March 17, 2008 Serena Ng, Columbia University, "Instrumental Variable Estimation in a Data Rich Envirornment," Econometrics Workshop, Mcneil 410, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
March 18, 2008 Federico Echenique, California Institute of Technology, "On Behavior Complementarity and Its Implications," Applied Micro Theory Workshop, McNeil 309, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
March 19, 2008 Philip Gorski, Yale University, "Religious America? Secular Europe? Understanding Religious Change in the Modern West," Sociology Spring 2008 Colloquium Series, McNeil 103, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
March 20, 2008 Denise Hallfors, Senior Research Scientist, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, "Sexual & Drug Behavior Patterns and HIV/STD Racial Disparities: The Need for New Directions," Penn Center for AIDS Research Seminar Series, Auditorium/Lobby, Biomedical Research Building, 421 Curie Blvd, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
March 20, 2008 Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, "Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?" Penn Provost International Development Workshop, 122 College Hall, 4:30 pmMarch 21, 2008 Nicole P. Marwell, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latina/o Studies, Columbia University, "Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City," Penn Urban Ethnography Workshop, 167-8 McNeil Building, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
March 26, 2008 Marcia J. Carlson, Columbia University, "Patterns and Implications of Multi-Partnered Fertility among Urban U.S. Parents," Sociology Spring 2008 Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
March 28, 2008 David B. Coplan, Head of Social Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, African Studies Center 2008 Scholar for a Day, Arch Crest Room, The Arch, Locust Walk at 36th Street, 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
March 28, 2008 Grace Kao, Director, Asian American Studies Program, and Associate Professor of Sociology, and Asian American Studies, Take your Sociology Professor to Lunch, Inn at Penn, Noon (Space is limited--please RSVP in advance to woofs@sas.upenn.edu)March 29, 2008 Nina G. Jablonski, Head of Department of Anthropology, Penn State University, "The Evolution of Human Skin Color," Westbrook Lecture, Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 W. Montgomery Ave., Philadelphia, 1:00 pm
March 29, 2008 Dan McAdams, Northwestern University Department of Psychology, "Narrative Identity and the Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By," Penn/Yale Workshop on Narrative and the Construction of the Self, G-17 Logan Hall, 5:30 pm
March 30, 2008 A Television Writing and Performance Panel, Presented by the Asian American Studies Program, with Daniel Chun (Writer, The Simpsons), Vali Chandrasekara (Writer, My Name is Earl), Peter Jacobson (Actor, House), Moderated by Kalpen Modi (5-6pm) Adjunct Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania (Actor, House), Terrace Room, Logan Hall, 5:00 - 6:00 pm.
April 1, 2008 Sven Beckert, Harvard University, "The Empire of Cotton: A Global History," Stephen Allen Kaplan Memorial Lecture, Logan Hall 17, 5:00 pm
April 2, 2008 Michael Kearns, Computer and Information Science, “Behavioral Games on Networks,” Social Networks Workshop, Room 2034 of the Management Department from 1:30 – 3:00 pm.
April 2, 2008 Michael Kremer, Harvard University, Department of Economics, "Estimating the Impact of the Hajj:
Religion and Tolerance in Islam’s Global Gathering," Penn Provost International Development Workshop, 122 College Hall, 4:30 pmApril 3, 2008 Grzegorz Ekiert, "Civil Society and Democratization: Postcommunist Europe in Comparative Perspective," Penn-Temple European Studies Colloquium and Penn Comparative Politics Workshop, Stiteler Hall Forum, 12:00-2:00 pm
April 7, 2008 Robert Klitzman, Columbia University, "Double Lives: When Doctors Become Patients," Public lecture and book signing at the Penn Bookstore, 36th & Walnut St., 7:30 pm
April 8, 2008 Robert Klitzman, Columbia University, "Our Guinea Pigs Abroad?: IRBs, Ethics and Experimentation in the Developing World," Joint program with Center for AIDS Research & Penn AIDS Awareness, Dunlop Auditorium, 9:00 am
April 8, 2008 Robert Klitzman, Columbia University, "Burnout and mental health among providers and patients," Workshop for Professionals in Behavioral Health, Center for Bioethics, RSVP
required, 1:30 - 3:00 pmApril 8, 2008 Thalia Dragonas and Anna Frangoudaki, University of Athens, "Educating the 'Other': The Case of the Muslim Minority in Western Thrace, Greece," Sponsored by Penn School of Social Policy & Practice, Annenberg 110, 6:00 - 7:15 pm
April 10-11, 2008 Second Annual GDI Forum: Higher Education and International Development, Register Here.
April 11, 2008 Rachel Sherman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, New School University, "The Production of Consumption: Taste and Work in the Lifestyle Management Industry," Penn Urban Ethnography Workshop, 167-8 McNeil Building, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
April 12, 2008 "Schools and the New Inequality," A public conversation held in conjunction with Politics, Activism, and the History of America’s Public Schools: A Conference for Young Scholars, Speakers: James D. Anderson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Michael B. Katz, University of Pennsylvania; Ira Katznelson, Columbia University; David Labaree, Stanford University; James Leloudis, University of North Carolina; Elaine Simon, University of Pennsylvania (moderator), Logan Hall G-17, 4:30 pm
April 14, 2008 Russ Cole, "Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications," IES Lecture, Graduate School of Education Room 007, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
April 16, 2008 Adam Gamoran, University of Wisconsin, "Expansion through diversion in higher education: The case of Scotland's 'new universities,'" Sociology Spring 2008 Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
April 16, 2008 Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, "Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions," Penn Provost International Development Workshop, 122 College Hall, 4:30 pm
April 16, 2008 Wisconsin Longitudinal Study Training Workshop at PAA in New Orleans, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel Bayside B 4th Floor, 3:30 - 5:30 pm
To RSVP or for more information about the training workshop please contact Carol Roan by email (roan@wisc.edu) or telephone (608 265-6196).April 17, 2008 Discussion, "Sociology and Obama," Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Workshop, Africana Seminar room in 3401 Walnut A, third floor, 1:00 pm
April 17, 2008 "Workshop on the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)" at PAA, in New Orleans, from 6:30 to 8 pm.
April 21, 2008 John Fantuzzo, and Whitney LeBoeuf, "What's Behind Being Behind?: The Use of Integrated Administrative Data for Educational Policy Research," IES Lecture, Graduate School of Education Room 007, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
April 22, 2008 Michael Trebilcock, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, "Property Rights and Development," Penn Provost International Development Workshop, 122 College Hall, 4:30 pm
April 23, 2008 Karen Cerulo, Rutgers University, "Never Saw it Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst," Sociology Spring 2008 Colloquium Series, McNeil 103, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
April 23, 2008 Sarah Kaplan, Presentation of Work, Family/Gender Workshop, McNeil Sociology Conference Room, 8:30 - 9:45 am
April 24, 2008 Richard Blundell, University College London, "Consumption Inequality and Partial Insurance," PIER Lecture Series, 309 McNeil, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
April 24, 2008 John Carlos, Harry Edwards and Tommy Smith, "The Race and Sports Lecture," Center for Africana Studies, The Auditorium (G06) Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 5:30 pm
April 25, 2008 John A. Rich, Chair and Professor, Dept. of Health Management & Policy, Drexel University School of Public Health, "Trauma-Informed Approach to Urban Violence: Practice & Policy," LDI Health Policy Seminar, Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
April 25, 2008 Jonas Tallberg, Associate Professor of Political Science, Stockholm University, "The Power of the Chair: Formal Leadership in International Cooperation," Fox Speakers Forum, Stiteler Forum, 2:00 p.m.
April 28, 2008 Laura Perna, Rachel Fester, Erin Walsh, "Understanding the Ways that Pre-College Outreach and State Grant Programs Shape College Opportunity for the Parents of Participating Students," IES Lecture Series, GSE Room 007, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
April 29, 2008 Menggang Yu, Indiana University, "Semiparametric Accelerated Failure Time Model with Covariate Missing Data," CCEB-DBE Seminars, Biomedical Research Building - II/III - Room 253, 3:30 - 4:30 pm
April 30, 2008 Youngdal Cho, Dean, College of Education, Seoul National University, "Multiculturalism and Education in South Korea," Center for East Asian Studies Korean Lecture Series, Logan Hall 402, 4:30 pm
May 1, 2008 Frank B. Hu, Assoc. Prof. Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Assoc Prof Medicine, Harvard Medical School, "The Global Epidemics of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Environmental and Genetic Causes," CCEB-DBE Seminars, 701 Blockley Hall, 9:00 - 10:00 am
May 2, 2008 Janet Currie, Chair and Professor of Economics Department of Economics, Colombia University, "Child Health and Academic Succeess: Is There a Connection?" LDI Research Seminar, Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
May 7, 2008 Ayako Kano, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, "Presentation of Work," Family/Gender Workshop, Sociology Conference Room, 8:30 am -9:45 am
May 7, 2008 Brian K. Kennedy, Washington University, Seattle, "Conserved Pathways Modulating Longevity: Aging and Nutrients," Wistar Institute Events, Grossman Auditorium, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
May 8, 2008 Linda Kao, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, "Genetic Determinants of Sudden Cardiac Death," CCEB-DBE Seminars, 701 Blockley Hall, 9:00 - 10:00 am
May 9, 2008 Sara Rosenbaum, Harold & Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy, The George Washington University Medical Center, "Is There a Role in National Health Reform for a Policy Response to Health Inequality?" Charles C. Leighton, MD, Memorial Lecture, John Morgan Building Class of 62 Auditorium, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
May 9, 2008 Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism, "Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs," Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall, 8:30 am - 7:00 pm
May 14, 2008 David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology, "MicroRNA's and Inflammation," 6th Annual Neal Nathanson Lecture, Microbiology Department Seminar Series, Auditorium, BRB II/III (Center for AIDS Research), 1:00 pm
May 15, 2008 Edward Ruiz-Narvaez, Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition, "Genetic variation in the PPARG, APOC3, and APOA5 genes and the risk of myocardial infarction," CCEB-DBE Seminars, 701 Blockley Hall, 9:00 - 10:00 am
May 15, 2008 Jonathan Ellen, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, "Adolescent HIV in the United States," Penn CFAR Seminar Series, Biomedical Research Building 2 Auditorium, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
May 15, 2008 Maggie Little, Georgetown University, "Intimate Assistance: Re-thinking Abortion in Law and Morality," Center for Bioethics Colloquium Series, Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium, 4:00 pm. To assure seating, please RSVP to clinksca@mail.med.upenn.edu or call the Center for Bioethics at (215) 898-7136.
May 16, 2008 LDI Alumni Faculty Exchange, "Urban Health: Issues and Actions," Panelists: Amy Hillier, David Grande, Therese Richmond, Ira Harkavy, Jon Huntsman Hall Rm. 260, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
May 20, 2008 Elizabeth Winzeler, The Scripps Research Institute, "Industrialization of Malaria Research: Using System-based Approaches to Studying Parasite Biology," PGFI Research Seminar Series, John Morgan Building, Class of '62 Auditorium, 3:00 - 4:00 pm
May 21, 2008 Caleb B. Kallen, Emory University, "Chipping at the Human Genome to Characterize Functional Estrogen Response Elements," Center for Research on Reproduction and Women's Health Seminar Series, Location TBA, 12:00 -1:00 pm
May 29, 2008 Eric Davidson, California Technical Institute, "Genes Development," Penn Chemistry Seminar Series, John C. Makris Memorial Lecture, Carolyn Hoff Lynch Auditorium, Chemistry Building, 4:00 pm
June 5, 2008 Mark Connors, Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Immunoregulation National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, "Qualitative features of an effective immune response to HIV," Penn CFAR Seminar Series, Biomedical Research Building 2 Auditorium, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
June 20-22, 2008 Childhood & Migration: Interdisciplinary Conference 2008, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
August 1-4, 2008 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting: "Worlds of Work," Boston, Massachusetts
August 22, 2008 Using Selected Works and the Scholarly Commons, Penn Libraries WICShops, Van Pelt Library Seminar Room, 12:00 - 1:00 pm. Registration opens 8/8/2008.
September 10, 2008 Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University, visiting Penn, "Intertemporal Distortions in the Second Best," Money Macro Workshop, 395 McNeil, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
September 12, 2008 Elizabeth A. Wissinger, Assistant Professor of Sociology, BMCC, CUNY, "Stalking the Fashion Model in New York City: Fashion Models, Affect, and Effervescent Value," Penn Urban Ethnography Workshop, 103 McNeil, 2 - 4 pm
September 16, 2008 Matt Swartz, Economics Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania,“Marriage, Dating, and Information,” Applied Micro Theory Workshop, 309 McNeil, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
September 17, 2008 Beth Linker, University of Pennsylvania, History and Sociology of Science Department, "Brains and Brawn: the Birth of Physical Therapy as an Allied Health Profession," Sociology Fall Colloquium Series, McNeil 103, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
September 18, 2008 Thomas Shapiro, Professor of Sociology, Law and Social Policy at Brandeis University, Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Workshop, Africana Studies seminar room, 3rd Floor 3401 Walnut St, Wing A, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
September 18, 2008 Amardeep Singh, Assistant Professor of English, Lehigh University, "Identity Politics and Diasporic Pragmatism: Debating South Asia in Online Communities," Asian American Studies Program, Graduate Education Bldg Room 203, 4:30 - 5:30 pm
September 19, 2008 Wharton Conference on Governance, Leadership, and Networks, 250 & 255 Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm. You must register by September 15.
September 22, 2008 Lynn Okagaki, Commissioner of the National Center for Education Research, Institute of Education Sciences, "Solution-Driven Research: Lessons Learned," IES Lecture Series, 3440 Market Street, Room 501, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
September 23, 2008 Paul Collier, Oxford University, Department of Economics, "Testing the Neocon Agenda: Democracy in Resource-Rich Societies," International Development Workshop, 122 College Hall, 4:30pm
September 24, 2008 Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego, "Transparency and Democracy Are Not the Same Thing: The Rise of Transparency as a Political and Social Ideal," Sociology Fall 2008 Colloquium Series, McNeil 103, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
September 24, 2008 Susanna Loeb, Associate Professor of Education, Stanford University, "Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement," IES Lecture Series, 3440 Market Street, Room 501, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
September 24, 2008 Vida Bajc Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology Queen’s University, Ontario, "Sharing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre: Identity and Boundaries Among Jerusalem’s Christians," Co-sponsored by the Middle East Center and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, College Hall, Room 219, 5:00 pm
September 24, 2008 Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University, "Has Anything Changed Since the Time of Plato?" 2008-2009 Penn Humanities Forum on Change, Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 5:00 - 6:30 pm, Registration Required.
September 24, 2008 Harold P. Blum, Executive Director, The Sigmund Freud Archives, "Anti-Semitism in the Freud Case Histories," PCOP Seminar Series, Penn Hillel, Steinhardt Hall, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
September 25, 2008 Film Festival about Race and the Legacy of Slavery, "Traces of the Trade," Penn Cinema Studies, Huntsman Halll, Room 250, 5:00 pm
September 26, 2008 Film Festival about Race and the Legacy of Slavery, "The Minority Reporter," Penn Cinema Studies, Huntsman Halll, Room F85, 12:30 pm
September 26, 2008 Film Festival about Race and the Legacy of Slavery, "Meeting David Wilson," Penn Cinema Studies, Huntsman Hall, Room F85, 3pm
September 26, 2008 Population Sleep Symposium, Biomedical Research Building Auditorium, 421 Curie Boulevard, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
September 29, 2008 Eugene Gonzalez, Director of the IEA-ETS Research Institute, "Sampling Issues Around (International) Large Scale Assessments Selecting Items and People," IES Lecture Series, Graduate School of Education Room 200, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
September 30, 2008 PENN ERA Proposal Development Training, Room 108 McNeil (UDAL), 12:00 - 12:45 pm. Please RSVP to Russ D'Aiello by 5pm on September 29 at daiellor@sas.upenn.edu
October 1, 2008 Patrick Carr, Rutgers University, "What Moms Supply: What Distinguishes Delinquent and Non-delinquent Girls in Three High Crime Philadelphia Neighborhood," Sociology Fall 2008 Colloquium Series, McNeil 103, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
October 2, 2008 Lisa Bowleg, Assoc. Professor in Dept. of Community Health and Prevention, Drexel University, "REPRESENTing Heterosexually Black Men in Philadelphia:The REPRESENT Study," Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 423 Guardian Drive, 701 Blockley Hall, 9:00 - 10:00 am
October 2, 2008 Londa Schiebinger, Director of The Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research and John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University, "Gendered Innovations in Science," Women's Studies & Alice Paul Center events, R. Jean Brownlee Lecture in Feminist Thought, 200 College Hall, 5:00 pm
October 3, 2008 Andrew Cherlin, "Was Welfare Reform a Success? How Minority Families are Faring," The De Jong Lecture in Social Demography, Nittany Lion Inn, Ballroom C, Penn State University Park Campus 1:15 pm A reception will follow at 4:00 in the Alumni Lounge.
October 10, 2008 Alford Young, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, "Black Men, Racefulness, and Getting Ahead in American Society: A Cultural Paradigm Reconstituted," Sociology Fall 2008 Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
October 13, 2008 Stephen Bell, Principal Associate/Scientist, Abt Associates Inc., "Analytic Strategies for Addressing Cross-Overs in Education Randomized Control Trials," Penn IES Lecture Series, Graduate School of Education Room 200, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
October 15, 2008 Jennifer Lee, University of California, Irvine, "Post-Racial America? Multiracial Identification and the Color Line in the 21st Century," Sociology Fall 2008 Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
October 16, 2008 Richard F. Little, National Cancer Institute, NIH, "Non-AIDS-defining cancer in HIV infection and clinical trials access: Lessons from advances in AIDS-related malignancies," Penn Center for AIDS Research, Auditorium of BRB II/III, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
October 16, 2008 Katha Pollitt, Columnist for The Nation magazine, "Women, Gender and the 2008 Presidential Election," Alice Paul Lecture in Women's Studies, Women's Studies & Alice Paul Center events, Location TBA, 5:00 pm
October 17, 2008 Robert Courtney Smith, Associate Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies, and Public Affairs, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, "TBA," Penn Urban Ethnography Workshop, McNeil 103, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
October 17, 2008 Kyungsoo Yoo, University of Delaware, Plant & Soil Sciences Department, "Integration of Geomorphic and Biogeochemical Processes on Hillslopes," Department of Earth and Environmental Science Seminars, Room 358, Hayden Hall, 4:00 pm
October 20, 2008 Michael Gottfried, Doctoral Student, Applied Economics, IES Fellow, The Wharton School, "Policy Prescriptions for a Broke School District: The Effect of Peers on Academic Achievement in Philadelphia's Classrooms," Penn IES Lecture Series, Graduate School of Education Room 200, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
October 21, 2008 Jane Skok, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, "Choreography of immunoglobulin gene allelic exclusion," Immunology Colloquium Series, Dunlop Auditorium (ground floor of Stemmler), 4:00 pm
October 21, 2008 Maike Sander, University of California, Irvine, "Transcriptional control of progenitor cell pluripotency in the pancreas," IDOM / DERC Research Seminar Series, Clinical Research Building, Room 302, 4:00 pm
October 21, 2008 Rolena Adorno, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University, "The Polemics of Possession in Spain and America," Latin American & Latino Studies Program Events, Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 5:00 pm
October 22, 2008 Simon Cheng, University of Connecticut, "The Experiences of Multiracial Youth: Challenges, Constraints, and Opportunities," Sociology Fall 2008 Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
October 22, 2008 Peter Murray, St. Jude's Research Hospital, "Genetic analysis of macrophage arginase," Microbiology Department Seminar Series, Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 12:00 pm
October 22, 2008 Tallie Z. Baram, UC Irvine, "Stress and Your Brain: Memory, Spines and Mechanisms," Neuroscience Colloquium Series, Barchi Library 140 John Morgan Building, 4:00 pm
October 23-24, 2008 National Symposium on Family Issues, "Development of Hispanic Children in Immigrant Families: Challenges and Prospects," Nittany Lion Inn, Penn State
October 24, 2008 Markus Kreuzer, Villanova University, "Varieties of Electoral Systems. History, Theory Development and the Origins of Electoral Systems in Early Democracies," Penn-Temple European Studies Colloquium, Stiteler Hall Forum, 12:00 - 2:00 pm
October 24, 2008 Daria Nikitina, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Department of Geology and Astrology, "Sea Level Rise and Environmental Changes along the Delaware Bay coast in late Holocene," Department of Earth and Environmental Science Seminars, Room 358, Hayden Hall, 4:00 pm
October 27, 2008 Kirsty Brown, Special Assistant for Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Office of Child Development and Early Learning, "The Role of Research and Evaluation: Pennsylvania’s Office of Child Development & Early Learning," Penn IES Lecture Series, Graduate School of Education Room 200, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
October 28, 2008 Liwu Li, Associate Professor, Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Inflammation, Department of Biology, Virginia Tech, "Innate Immunity signaling Processess and Inflammatory complication," Immunology Colloquium Series, Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 4:00 pm
October 28, 2008 Lei Yin, University of Pennsylvania, "Controlling Receptor Rev-erba: a Transcriptional Link for Circadian Rhythm and Metabolism," IDOM / DERC Research Seminar Series, Clinical Research Building, Room 302, 4:00 pm
October 29, 2008 Frederick Wherry, University of Michigan, "The Philadelphia Barrio: Symbolic Capital and the Transformation of the Latino District," Sociology Fall 2008 Colloquium Series, 103 McNeil, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
October 29, 2008 Matthew Weitzman, Salk Institute, "Insights into DNA repair from the battle ground of virus-host interactions," Microbiology Department Seminar Series, Austrian Auditorium, CRB, 12:00 pm
October 29, 2008 David Raizen, University of Pennsylvania, "C. elegans quiescence as a model for sleep," Neuroscience Colloquium Series, Barchi Library 140 John Morgan Building, 4:00 pm
October 29, 2008 Giuseppe Testa, Provost's Distinguished International Scholar, "Indexing Life: the Scientific and Political Production of Lineages. How Genetic Knowledge and Technology Are Co- Produced by the Laboratory and Society," History & Sociology of Science Department, 402 Claudia Cohen Hall, 4:30 pm
October 30, 2008 Margaret Beale Spencer, "Youth Identity and Development in the 'Colorblind' American Context Post Brown 1954," Eleventh Annual Constance E. Clayton Lecture, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Rainey Auditorium, 4:30 pm
November 3, 2008 Lynnette Leidy-Sievert, "Hot flashes at midlife: human variation and my search for a 'culture-proof' variable," Anthropology Colloquium, 345 University Museum, 4:30 pm
November 4, 2008 Diane Mathis, Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School, Title of talk TBD, Immunology Colloquium Series, Clinical Research Building, Austrian Auditorium, 4:00 pm
November 5, 2008 Cammie Lesser, Harvard University, "New insights into mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis through functional genomic studies in yeast," Microbiology Department Seminar Series, Clinical Research Building Auditorium, 12:00 pm
November 5, 2008 William C. Hahn, Harvard Medical School, "Functional genomics, experimental models and cancer," The Wistar Institute 2008 Lecture Series, Wistar Institute Grossman Auditorium, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
November 5, 2008 Robert Smith, CUNY, "Horatio Alger Lives in Brooklyn, and other histories of the second generation," Sociology Fall 2008 Colloquium Series, McNeil 103, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
November 5, 2008 David Sweatt, University of Alabama, "Epigenetic Mechanisms in Memory Formation," Neuroscience Colloquium Series, Barchi Library, 140 John Morgan Building, 4:00 pm
November 6, 2008 Mira Nair, "Between Two Worlds," Judith R. Berkowitz Lecture in Women's Studies, Ibrahim Theater, International House, 6:00 pm
November 6-8, 2008 International Symposium, "Re-imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil," Sponsored by Penn Design and Penn Institute for Urban Research
November 7, 2008 Trish Riley, Director, Maine Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance, "Maine’s Dirigo Health Reform – Can States be the Laboratories for National Action?" and Mitch Katz, Director of Health, City of San Francisco Department of Health, "Providing Universal Access to Care: Health San Francisco," LDI Special Symposium on Local and State Health Care Reform, Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
November 7, 2008 Douglas Howard, George Mason University, "Quantitative Hydraulic Modeling and Geomorphology of Jokulhlaup-type Outflow Channels on Earth and Mars: Application of Comparative Geomorphology and Remote Sensing," Earth and Environmental Science Seminars, Room 358, Hayden Hall, 4:00 pm
November 10, 2008 Douglas Jerolmack, University of Pennsylvania, "Quantitative Sedimentology on Mars," Earth and Environmental Science Seminars, Room 358, Hayden Hall, 12:00 pm
November 11, 2008 Dongsheng Cai, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Inflammatory and circadian programs in hypothalamic dysregulation of energy balance," IDOM / DERC Research Seminar Series, Clinical Research Building, Room 302, 4:00 pm
November 11, 2008 Ann Marshak-Rothstein, Boston University School of Medicine, "Fine-tuning the Autoreactive B Cell Response," Immunology Colloquium Series, Clinical Research Building, Austrian Auditorium, 4:00 pm
November 12, 2008 Manthia Diawara, "In Residence," Sponsored by Film at International House and the Department of Cinema Studies
November 12, 2008 Mark Goulian, University of Pennsylvania, "Deciphering bacterial signaling circuits," Microbiology Department Seminar Series, Clinical Research Building Auditorium, 12:00 pm
November 12, 2008 Christopher A. Walsh, Harvard, "Genes that control shape and size of the human cerebral cortex," Neuroscience Colloquium Series, Barchi Library, 140 John Morgan Building, 4:00 pm
November 12, 2008 Maarten van Lohuizen, Netherlands Cancer Institute, "Polycomb repressors controlling stem cell fate: Implications for cancer and development," The Wistar Institute 2008 Lecture Series, Wistar Institute Grossman Auditorium, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
November 12, 2008 Dale Jamieson, New York University, "Climate Change: Moral and Political Challenges," Penn Humanities Forum, University Museum, 5:00 - 6:30 pm
November 13, 2008 Katrina Burgess, Tufts University, "Comparing Migrant Transnationalism in Mexico and El Salvador," Latin-American & Latino Studies Events, 303 Lauder-Fischer, 12:00 pm
November 14, 2008 Chris Oze, Bryn Mawr College, "Biogeochemical Synchronicity of Life, Death, and Ultramafic Material," Earth and Environmental Science Seminars, Room 358, Hayden Hall, 4:00 pm
November 18, 2008 Eric Schneider, University of Pennsylvania, "Smack: Heroin and the American City," Urban Studies Colloquium, 130 McNeil, 9:15 am
November 18, 2008 Christopher V. Carman, Harvard Medical School, "BIDMC The Lymphocyte-Endothelial Immunological Synapse," Immunology Colloquium Series, Clinical Research Building, Austrian Auditorium, 4:00 pm
November 18, 2008 Yair Argon, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, "Controlling IGF signaling by modulating the production of the ligands: implications for cell growth and differentiation," IDOM / DERC Research Seminar Series, Clinical Research Building, Room 302, 4:00 pm
November 19, 2008 Stefan Timmermans, UCLA, "Emerging Diseases and Incipient Patients: Effects of Expanded Newborn Screening," Sociology Fall 2008 Colloquium Series, McNeil 103, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
November 19, 2008 Robert Silverman, Lerner Research Institute, "Role of RNase L in antiviral innate immunity," Microbiology Department Seminar Series, Clinical Research Building Auditorium, 12:00 pm
November 19, 2008 Refworks Basics, Class of 1968 Seminar Room, WIC, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
November 19, 2008 Natalie G. Ahn, HHMI, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Signal transduction pathways in melanoma," The Wistar Institute 2008 Lecture Series, Wistar Institute Grossman Auditorium, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
November 19, 2008 Get to the Point - Effective Use of PowerPoint, Class of 1968 Seminar Room, WIC, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 5:00 - 6:30 pm
November 20, 2008 Douglas Nixon, Department of Medicine/Experimental Medicine University of California, San Francisco, "Human endogenous retroelements: new opportunities for vaccines against HIV?" Penn CFAR Seminar Series, Reunion Hall, John Morgan Building, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
November 21, 2008 Robert Kaestner, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Health Insurance and Ex Ante Moral Hazard: Evidence from Medicare," LDI Research Seminar, Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
November 21, 2008 David Grazian, "The Riches of Embarrassment: Missteps, Mistakes and Pratfalls in Ethnography," Culture & Interaction Workshop, 103 McNeil, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
November 25, 2008 Karen Knudsen, Thomas Jefferson University, "SWI/SNF dysregulation in prostate cancer: impact on androgen signaling and proliferative control," IDOM / DERC Research Seminar Series, Clinical Research Building, Room 302, 4:00 pm
December 2, 2008 Panel Discussion on Violence and Stress: Exploring Community Strengths, FICAP Forum Series, CLaudia Cohen Hall Terrace Room, 9:30 - 11:30 am
December 2, 2008 Steven Kahn, University of Washington, Seattle, "ß-cell Failure in Type 2 Diabetes," IDOM / DERC Research Seminar Series, Clinical Research Building, Room 302, 4:00 pm
December 3, 2008 Philippe Bourgois, University of Pennsylvania, "Lumpen Abuse under Neoliberalism: A Photo-Ethnographic Perspective on Homeless Heroin Injectors," Sociology Fall 2008 Colloquium Series, McNeil 103, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
December 3, 2008 Raul Andino, University of California, San Francisco, "Virus evolution: Implications for pathogenesis and vaccines," Microbiology Department Seminar Series, Clinical Research Building Auditorium, 12:00 pm
December 3, 2008 Michael Platt, Duke University, "Whither Neuroeconomics," Neuroscience Colloquium Series, Barchi Library, 140 John Morgan Building, 4:00 pm
December 3, 2008 Eric J. Brown, University of Pennsylvania, "Replication fork stability and the prevention of cancer and aging," The Wistar Institute 2008 Lecture Series, Wistar Institute Grossman Auditorium, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
December 3, 2008 Ian Hacking, University of Toronto, "Changing Who We Are: What is Genetics Doing to Us?" Penn Humanities Forum, Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum 5:00 - 6:30 pm
December 4, 2008 Tom Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania, "Sweet Land of Liberty: the Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North," Penn Bookstore, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
December 9, 2008 David Silver, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, "New genes in fat storage," IDOM / DERC Research Seminar Series, Clinical Research Building, Room 302, 4:00 pm
December 10, 2008 Dmytro Hryshko, University of Alberta, "RIP to HIP: The Data Reject Heterogeneous Labor Income Profiles," Money Macro Workshop, 395 McNeil, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
December 10, 2008 Dan Feldman, UC Berkeley, "Processing and plasticity in rat somatosensory cortex," Neuroscience Colloquium Series, Barchi Library, 140 John Morgan Building, 4:00 pm
December 10, 2008 Wei-Dong Le, Baylor College of Medicine, "The role of Nurr1 in dopamine neuron development and Parkinson’s disease," The Wistar Institute 2008 Lecture Series, Wistar Institute Grossman Auditorium, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
December 12, 2008 Aaron Kesselheim, Harvard Medical School, "Medical Innovation, Patents and Public Health: Can We Reach a Proper Balance?" LDI Research Seminar, Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
December 16, 2008 John F. Kearney, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, "Marginal Zone B cells: Development and Function," Immunology Colloquium Series, Austrian Auditorium, CRB, 4:00 pm
December 18, 2008 Thomas J. Coates, Associate Director, UCLA AIDS Institute & Professor, Department of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles, "What to do next in HIV prevention," Penn CFAR Seminar Series, Biomedical Research Building Auditorium, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Training & Enrichment Oppurtunities
Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health, C2S Summer Biomarker Institute, June 9-11, 2008, Evanston campus of Northwestern University. Application Deadline is April 23, 2008.
Stanford Workshop in Formal Demography, May 1-4, 2008, Stanford, California. Apply by sending CV, and for students a recommendation letter from faculty advisor, no later than April 11, 2008.
Geographically Weighted Regression Workshop, June 1-6, 2008, The Population Research Institute University Park, Pennsylvania. Application deadline is March 31, 2008.
Spatial Pattern Analysis Workshop, July 13-18, 2008, The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science Santa Barbara, California. Application deadline is March 31, 2008.
NECSI Summer School 2008 June 16 - July 4, 2008 MIT, Cambridge, MA
2008 Annual Workshop on Crime and Population Dynamics (formerly Criminology and Economics), June 2-3, 2008 Maryland Population Research Center Application deadline is 11:59pm (U.S. Eastern Time) on May 1, 2008.
First International Summer School in Behavioral Economics and Retirement Savings July 7-17, 2008 Sponsored by the DIA (German Institute for Retirement Savings), University of Muenster, Germany Application deadline is May 5, 2008.
Summer Workshop: Spatial Filtering with the Eigenvector Approach June 16-20, 2008 The University of Texas at Dallas Application deadline is May 5, 2008.
Calls for Papers
Call for Papers: 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences May 29 - June 1, 2008 Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, Honolulu, Hawaii
Submission deadline extended to March 7, 2008.Call for Papers: European Science Foundation Conference, "The Transfer of Resources across Generations: Family, Income, Human Capital and Children's Wellbeing," June 9-13 2008, Vadstena Sweden
Submission deadline March 14, 2008.Call for Papers: Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, September 15-19 2008
Submission deadline May 2, 2008.Call for Participation: 2009 MLK Commemorative Symposium on Social Change
Deadline for Submissions: November 24, 2008.
Call for Papers: Critical Half Fall 2008 Issue - Global Women’s Movements in Changing Societies
Deadline for Submissions: June 16, 2008.
Call for Papers: 2008 Research Conference on the National Survey of Family Growth
Papers or extended abstracts (3 or more pages) should be submitted electronically (preferably in PDF or Word format) to nsfg@cdc.gov or mailed by overnight mail to William Mosher for receipt by 5 pm EDT Tuesday, June 17, 2008.