The Family Research Consortium, supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, will sponsor a 1998 Summer Institute on Process & Outcome Over Time: Interventions With Families. The Institute accepts a limited number of both junior and senior researchers as participants and allows for intellectual exchange among participants and presenters in addition to more structured presentations.Minority family researchers are particularly encouraged to participate. The Institute will be held at The Inn at Semi-ah-moo in Blaine, Washington from June 27-30. Co-Chairs for the 1998 Institute are Marion Forgatch and Howard Markman. Deadline for applying is Monday, March 23. For applications and/or more information contact:Kathy Meese, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB# 8180, 105 Smith Level Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8180. Phone: 919.966.3318; Fax: 919.966.7532; Email:MEESE.FPG@MHS.UNC.EDU
The 10th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society will be held at The University of California at Davis July 8-12, 1998. The meeting will feature plenary speakers and one keynote address. Abstracts for papers are due March 16; symposia abstracts (consisting of four thematically-linked paper abstracts demonstrating a synthetic and interdisciplinary focus) are due February 16. Details for the abstracts will be forthcoming. The program organizers are Jane Lancaster and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder. Beginning January 1998 a web page for the meeting can be found at http://www.des.ucdavis.edu. For further information contact: Debra S. Judge, PhD, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, dsjudge@ucdavis.edu
Indiana University's Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC) will hold a Summer Institute May 18 through June 5, 1998 to provide intensive training in CIPEC theory and methods addressing the Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC), including techniques of remote sensing and GIS, survey approaches, ecological issues, and institutional factors. Formal classes and computer practicums will cover theoretical principles for image interpretation, practical details of searching, ordering, and processing satellite images, and linking regional data to interviews, household surveys, botanical and soil inventories, institutional arrangements, and socioeconomic patterns. Applicants will be expected to pay for travel expenses to and from Bloomington, but Summer Institute Fellows will receive a modest stipend to cover housing and meal expenses. Applicants should send a letter of interest explaining how this training may contribute to their future work, CV, 2 letters of reference, and examples of relevant work. Faculty, graduate students, and mid-career professionals may apply. Deadline for receipt of application is February 15 Notification will be mailed by March 31. Please mail all applications to: Emilio Moran/Elinor Ostrom Co-Directors, CIPEC, 408 N. Indiana Ave., Room 224 Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47408
The Society for Research on Adolescence announces its 1998 Biennial Conference, to be held at the Hotel del Coronado, San Diego, CA, February 28-March 1, 1998. For further information: Enterprises, Box 1793, Lawrence, KS 66044-8793; Phone: 913.832.0737; Fax:913.832.2843;Email: SRA@ECE.LAWRENCE.KS.US