Center on Population Health and Aging
CPHA News
February 14, 2005
Upcoming Pilot Project Solicitation
Please keep in mind the upcoming CPHA pilot project solicitation. Detailed information about application guidelines, review criteria, and funding levels will be distributed the week of February 21. Pilot project proposals will be due May 15, and funding will begin August 1, 2005. CPHA experts to fund 3-4 large scale pilot projects (e.g., $40,000 approximately in direct costs for a 12-month period). Faculty should contact Mark Hayward prior to submission to discuss research ideas, budgeting, and the application/review process.
Funds for smaller projects (level 1 -- $4k or less) are available on an ad hoc basis, and interested faculty should contact Mark Hayward. Level 1's are intended to help faculty form research teams (e.g., to support meetings to discuss mutual interests, develop research questions, identify team leaders, and divide responsibilities). Please contact Mark Hayward to discuss research ideas, faculty involvement and plans.
For both the larger pilot projects and the level 1's, faculty should also inform the directors of the collaborating centers when relevant (the centers are PRI, Gerontology, CHCPR, CDHG, and CHDFRDC). Co-funding across the centers is possible and, in some cases, desirable. Faculty who have requested/received pilot funds from another center for the project are obligated to identify other sources of support.
Comings and Goings
Mark Hayward will be stepping down as CPHA director June 30, 2005. CPHA's co-director, Duane Alwin, will assume the directorship. Hayward is leaving Penn State to take a faculty position at the University of Texas. He also will direct UT's NICHD Population Research Center.
Two new faculty members with interests germane to the CPHA mission have accepted offers from Penn State and will join the Sociology faculty as Assistant Professors. They are Dr. Michelle Frisco (Ph,D., UT-Austin) and Dr. Molly Martin (Ph.D., Wisconsin). Currently, Frisco and Martin are completing their fellowships in the Robert Wood Johnson program on health policy. Much of their research addresses the life course influences on obesity. They will start their tenure at Penn State with a new NICHD award on this topic. Congratulations to both of them.
Thematic Speaker Series
Dale Dannefer is the kick-off speaker in this year's speaker series on "Life Course Perspectives on Health and Aging." Dale is a Professor of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University. Dale is an eminent scholar in the area of human development, the life course, and aging. His research interests are wide ranging and include topics such as:
- the growth of inequality with age through cumulative advantage/disadvantage
- the social construction of self and aging
- how the body is shaped by social processes
- reform of long-term care
Terrie Knaresboro will be contacting you this week to set up a time to meet with Dale. I encourage all of you to take the opportunity to meet him up close and personal.
Reminder about upcoming events
March 31st-April 2nd. Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Philadelphia, PA.
April 6th. CPHA workshop by Harold Lentzner and Elsie Pamuk, National Center on Health Statistics. Topic: NCHS Data Warehouse on Trends in Healthy Aging.
May 20-22. International Conference on the Future of Cognitive Aging Research. Penn State University.
Honors and Awards
Scott Hofer
2004-2008 Member, Social Psychology, Personality, and Interpersonal Processes (SPIP) Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health.
New Grants
Scott Hofer
2004-2009 Co-Investigator, Center for early diagnosis and therapy research for neurodegenerative diseases: A Swedish network, Neuropsychology Core, Sweden, PI: B. Winblad.
2004-2007 Principal Investigator, Psychopathology in young people with mental retardation, NIH/NIMH 1R01MH061809-01A2.
2005-2010 International Collaborator, Australian Research Council (ARC) research network in ageing well, Australia, PI: H. Kendig.
Duane Alwin and Scott Hofer
2005 Co-Principal Investigator, Conference on the future of cognitive aging research, NIH/NIA, 1R13 AG026231-01.
New Books and Articles
Schaie, K. W. (2005). Developmental influences on adult intelligence: The Seattle Longitudinal Study. New York: Oxford University Press.
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