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Volume 32 (2013)

December 23, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 22

• Wendy Naus Named New COSSA Executive Director
• Farewell and Thanks
• Budget Agreement Reached, Congress Moves Next to Complete Spending Bills
• Congressman Frank Wolf, Head of Important Appropriations Panel, Announces Retirement
• NIH Advisory Committee to the Director Hears About Diversity and Peer Review
• Charles Rothwell Named Permanent Director for NCHS
• New from NCHS: Health Insurance Coverage Estimates, First Results of Long-Term Care Survey, and Two Data Briefs
• The National Institute on Drug Abuse Presents the 2013 Monitoring the Future Survey
• APSA Task Force Report Discusses Negotiating Agreement in Politics
• NASW Briefing on Understanding the Intersection of Poverty, Child Abuse and Neglect
• AAAS DoSER Lecture Questions the Science/Religion Divide
• Anthropology Association Rejoins COSSA
• Editor’s Note

December 9, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 21

• NSF Adopts Portfolio Framework to Ensure Transparency and Accountability
• Sen. Alexander and Rep. Holt Honored at Launch of Phi Beta Kappa’s Arts and Sciences Initiative
• Two New NCHS Data Briefs: Pregnancy Rates and Use of Psychotropic Medication
• AAAS Celebrates On-Call Scientist Program in Honor of Human Rights Day
• Academies Report Considers Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change
• Hamilton Project Focuses on Supporting America’s Lower-Middle-Class Families
• National Academies Roundtable on Crime Trends Seeks Reasons for Crime Decrease
• NSF Seeks Proposals for New Methodologies of Evaluation

November 25, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 20

• NSF Reauthorization: A Discussion Draft and a Set of Hearings
• Senate HELP Panel Examines Ensuring Access to Higher Education by Simplifying Federal Student Aid
• Dying Young: Why Your Social and Economic Status May Be a Death Sentence in America
• AHRQ Director Proposes New Agency Priorities
• NIAMS Seeks Comments on its Long-Range Plan for FY 2015- 2019
• NDD Report Focuses on Harmful Effects of Budget Cuts
• BECS Meeting Focuses on Implementing the Climate Action Plan
• Briefing Shares the Work of CDC’s REACH Grants
• Modeling Social Behavior – Funding Opportunity

November 12, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 19

• COSSA Holds Colloquium: Warren Pledges Support, Marrett Announces Political Science Changes, Silver Reflects on 30 Years at COSSA
• Colloquium: Senator Elizabeth Warren: “Social and Behavioral Research is a Key Part of Finding the Answers” to Many Questions Facing America
• Colloquium: Marrett Explains Challenges for NSF and a Resumption of the Political Science Program’s Proposal Review
• Colloquium: Silver Reviews Thirty Year Career at COSSA
• Colloquium: Lawrence Tabak: Challenges for NIH
• Colloquium: Changes at Census
• Colloquium: America’s Political Institutions in Trouble
• Colloquium: How We Live Now: Societal Changes
• Colloquium: Changes Regarding Race in America
• Colloquium: The Press and Social Science
• NSF Announces Policy Regarding Political Science Program
• George F. Koob Named Director of NIAAA
• Senate HELP Committee Holds Hearing on “Attaining a Quality Degree: Innovations to Improve Student Success”
• The Nation’s Report Card: 2013 Mathematics and Reading, Grades 4 and 8
• NCHS Releases Interactive Health, U.S. 2012 Website

October 21, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 18

• Still Time to Register for the COSSA Colloquium
• Government Reopens: Congress Continues to Seek Budget Solutions
• NSF Back in Business: Marrett Decries Funding Lapse
• NIH Works to Deal with Backlog Due to Shutdown
• NCHS Is Back: New Data on Obesity Prevalence
• DBASSE Convenes Policy Roundtable of the Behavioral and Social Sciences
• DBASSE Committee on Population Meets; Discusses Current Studies
• Too Much Evidence to Ignore: New Findings on the Impact of Quality Preschool at Scale
• APHA Holds Briefing on Disabilities Treaty
• PCORI Launches Community-building “Pipeline to Proposal” Awards
• Call for Proposals on the Effectiveness of Torture Prevention
• COSSA’s New Staff Member

October 7, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 17

• Register Now for the 2013 COSSA Colloquium: November 4 and 5
• Congressional Briefing: What’s Ailing America? Shorter Lives, Poorer Health
• National Academies Workshop Explores Earth at 10 Billion People
• AAPOR Report Examines Polling and Democracy
• Vera Institute Releases Report on Effect of Stop and Frisk Police Tactics on Young People in New York City
• Research on the Health Determinants and Consequences of Violence and its Prevention, Particularly Firearm Violence: Applications Wanted
• Center for Evaluation and Coordination of Training and Research in Tobacco Regulatory Science
• Doris Duke Fellowships for the Promotion of Child Well-Being Invite Applications
• IHDP Urbanization Project Seeks Conference Proposals

September 23, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 16

• Marrett, Tabak, and Thompson to Speak at COSSA Colloquium
• Senate Panel Questions Nominees to OSTP and NOAA
• Scientific Solutions to Meth Addiction Discussed at House Hearing; Smith and Lipinski Note Role of Social and Behavioral Sciences
• House Oversight Holds Hearing on 2020 Census
• NSF and NEH Continue Support for Documenting Endangered Languages
• Enhancing Reproducibility and Transparency of Research Findings
• Jon R. Lorsch Presides Over 153rd Meeting of National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council
• NICHD Begins to Implement Vision
• Alvin Roth Receives Golden Goose Award
• AAU Issues Statement of Support for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
• IOM and NAS Release Workshop Summary on Incarceration and Health
• NSF Seeking Nominations for Waterman Award
• Applications Wanted for NCHS/AcademyHealth Health Policy Fellowship

September 9, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 15

• Registration Now Open for COSSA Colloquium on Social and Behavioral Science and Public Policy: November 4 and 5, 2013
• Congress Returns: Debate over Syria Postpones FY 2014 Spending Decisions
• Joanne Tornow Now Acting AD for SBE
• Richard Kronick, Political Scientist, Appointed New AHRQ Director
• COSSA Executive Director Receives APSA’s Frank Goodnow Award
• Steven Rathgeb Smith new APSA Executive Director
• Proceedings of NAS Workshop on the National Children’s Study Released
• Gallup, PDK Poll the Public’s Attitudes toward the Public Schools
• NCHS Roundup: Linked Mortality Files, Prescription Sleep Aids, Alcohol-Related Emergency Room Visits, Birth Data, and Family Planning
• NSF and NOAA Provide Opportunity for Social and Behavioral Scientists
• NSF Seeks Proposals for Innovation Corps Program

August 5, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 14

• In This Issue
• COSSA Seeks New Executive Director
• France Cordova Nominated as Next NSF Director
• NSF Political Science Program Cancels Proposal Target Dates for Rest of 2013
• NIH 101: Former NIH OER Director Wendy Baldwin Provides Briefing to Congressional Staff
• Congress Leaves for August Recess: Appropriations System in “Total Chaos”
• Senate Confirms Thompson as New Census Director
• OMB Suggests Agencies Learn How to “Harness” Research Findings from the Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Senate Commerce Committee Wants Study of Video Games and Programming
• Members of Congress Tell NIH Director to Continue Funding of Social, Behavioral and Economics Research
• Representatives Request GAO Study of Gender Bias in STEM Fields
• CDC Reports on Firearm Homicides and Suicides in Metropolitan Areas
• IOM Presents Webinar on UN Post-2015 Development Report
• Child Marriage Subject of UNFPA Briefing
• Clinical Trial of a Multifactorial Fall Injury Prevention Strategy in Older Persons
• Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Editor’s Note

July 22, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 13

• Save the Date
• FY 2014 Funding Recommendations Emerge from Appropriations Committees for NSF, Census, NIH, and Other Agencies
• FY 2014 Appropriations: National Science Foundation Receives Increase from Both Committees
• FY 2014 Appropriations: NIJ and BJS
• FY 2014 Appropriations: BEA and Census
• FY 2014 Appropriations: Senate Bill Provides $31 Billion to NIH
• FY 2014 Appropriations: International Education Up; Special Education Research Boosted
• FY 2014 Appropriations: Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Census Nominee Faces Friendly Committee
• NSF Updates Impact of Sequestration
• NIH Releases Annual Report on Well-Being of Nation’s Children and Youth
• The CTSA Program at NIH: Opportunities for Advancing Clinical and Translational Research – IOM Report Makes Recommendations
• USDA to Establish Regional Climate Hubs
• New NCHS Data on Racial Disparities in Life Expectancy
• Briefing Looks at Prescription Drug Abuse
• Science and Human Rights Coalition Meets on Right to Benefit from Scientific Progress
• Daniel Kahneman Adds Inaugural SAGE-CASBS Award to his Prize Collection
• Applications Wanted for Secondary Analyses of Alcohol and Chronic Disease
• Implications of New Digital Media Use for Underage Drinking-Related Behaviors and Prevention Research
• High Priority Behavioral and Social Research Networks

July 8, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 12

• FY 2014 Appropriations Process Moves Forward
• Agriculture Bills Reflect House-Senate Differences
• NSF Publishes FY 2013 Current Plan Numbers
• SMRB Assesses the Value of Biomedical Research; Gets New Charge
• Sound Science Integral to Obama’s Climate Plan
• President Nominates Katherine O’Regan to lead HUD’s Policy and Research Office
• Howard Shelanski New Head of OIRA
• Results of “The Nation’s Report Card” Released for 2012
• NAS Committee on Law and Justice Holds Roundtable on Crime Trends
• Webinar Focuses on Native American Male Health Disparities
• Hamilton Project Hosts Forum on Economic Mobility and Expanding College Opportunity
• American Evaluation Association Joins COSSA

June 24, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 11

• NIH: Exploring New Approaches to Optimizing Peer Review
• Labor Markets after the Great Recession
• COSSA Congressional Briefing Discusses Aging in Rural America
• National Academies Committee on Law and Justice Forum on Reforming Juvenile Justice
• NAS Committee on Law and Justice Holds Seminar on Cannabis: Legal and Policy Questions and Research Opportunities
• Congressional Neuroscience Caucus Briefing on Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies for Brain Research
• Arts and Sciences Academy Produces Report on Humanities and Social Sciences
• NSF Wants Proposals Assessing Impacts of Changes in Federal Science Policy
• Strategies for Building a Diverse Scientific Workforce: A Congressional Briefing

June 10, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 10

• Save the Date: COSSA Colloquium on Social and Behavioral Science and Public Policy, November 4-5, 2013, Washington, DC
• Silver to Leave COSSA at End of 2013
• NSF Issues Statement on Implementing the Coburn Amendment
• NCHS Releases Annual Health, United States Report
• IOM/NRC Committee Reports on Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence
• NRC Workshop Evaluates the Risks of Natural Gas Fracking
• Congressional Briefing Discusses Research to Improve Math and Science Scores

May 28, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 9

• Attacking and Defending Science: It’s Been a Busy Month
• FY 2014 Appropriations Process Begins: House and Senate on Different Paths
• NIH Appears Before Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services to Discuss FY 2014 Budget
• SBE Advisory Committee Meets; Youth Violence, Future of Surveys, and Science of Learning Discussed
• NORC President John Thompson Nominated to Lead Census Bureau
• Administration Issues Open Data Policy
• NCHS Board of Scientific Counselors Meets
• New NCHS Reports: Health Behavior of Adults and Teen Birth Rates
• AHRQ Releases 2012 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
• Congressional Briefing on Social Science Research on Disasters
• IOM and NRC Panel Meets to Help Set an Agenda for Public Health Research on Firearm-Related Violence
• William Julius Wilson, Harvard Scholar and Former COSSA President, Awarded Moynihan Prize
• Commerce Secretary Blank Helps IWPR Celebrate 25th Anniversary
• Coalition for National Science Funding Holds Annual Exhibition: Social/Behavioral Sciences Well Represented

May 13, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 8

• Proposed FY 2014 Budgets for Social and Behavioral Science

April 15, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 7

• President Obama Releases FY 2014 Budget
• Coburn Fallout and the Troubles Ahead
• Capitol Hill Briefing Discusses the Contributions of Economics Research to Health
• Assessing the Value of Research in Advancing National Goals
• BBCSS Workshop Explores Next Generation of Individual and Group Assessment
• Two New NCHS Data Reports: Premarital Cohabitation and Prescription Drug Costs
• COSSA Joins the April 8th Rally for Medical Research: “More Progress, More Hope, More Life”
• Research on Comparative Effectiveness and Implementation of HIV/AIDS and Alcohol Interventions
• Applications Wanted for Alcohol Use Disorders: Treatment, Services, and Recovery Research
• Innovation Research Methods: Prevention and Management of Symptoms in Chronic Illness
• NIDA Mentored Clinical Scientists Development Program Award in Drug Abuse and Addiction
• Addressing Health Disparities in NIDDK Diseases: Applications Wanted
• Drug Abuse Dissertation Research Awards Available
• Editor’s Note

March 25, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 6

• Coburn Amendment Restricts NSF Political Science Funding
• Congress Completes FY 2013 Appropriations Process
• NSF Director’s Farewell Appearance with Congress
• Causes and Correlates of Youth Violence Discussed at CJS Hearing
• COSSA Testifies to House CJS Appropriations Panel
• COSSA-Led Collaborative Releases Enhancing Diversity Report
• Changes to the Common Rule: The Implications for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
• NSF Seeks Proposals on Use and Functioning of the Civil Justice System
• COSSA Joins More Than 150 Organizations to “Rally for Medical Research” on April 8th in Washington
• NIH Office of Disease Prevention Seeks Input on Strategic Plan
• OppNet Seeks Revision Applications for Basic Social and Behavioral Research on Social, Cultural, Biological, and Psychological Mechanisms of Stigma
• Home and Family Based Approaches for the Prevention and Management of Overweight or Obesity in Early Childhood

March 11, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 5

• House Passes FY 2013 Appropriations Bill to Keep Government Open Past March 27; Senate Action This Week
• Duplication, Sequestration Main Themes of Appropriations Hearing with Public Health Research Agencies
• House Panels Hold Hearing on Cybersecurity; Hear About Importance of Human Behavior Research
• Ed Sondik to Leave NCHS
• AHRQ Report Identifies 22 Ways to Make Health Care Safer
• NSF Seeks Proposals to Transform Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
• Board on Environmental Change Discusses Climate Change Adaptation
• Social Workers’ Group Has New Leader
• DBASSE Has Two New Committee Directors
• Hamilton Project Suggests Rethinking the Federal Budget
• OPPNet — Short-Term Mentored Career Enhancement Award: Cross-Training at the Intersection of Animal Models and Human Investigation
• 2013 NIMHD Translational Health Disparities Course: August 5 – 16, 2013
• Planning Grants for the New NIH BUILD and NRMN Initiatives
• NIH Director’s Biomedical Research Workforce Innovation Award: Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST)

February 25, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 4

• And So It Comes to This Once More: Sequester on the Immediate Horizon
• SBE Prepares Report for Rep. Wolf on Youth Violence
• Administration Issues Open Access Policy Statement
• More Newcomers for the Second Term
• IES Oversight Board Meets
• EPA Solicits Nomination for its Board of Scientific Counselors
• HUD Requests Input on American Housing Survey Redesign
• New NCHS Data on Pharmaceutical Overdoses, Contraception, Nutrition
• American Community Survey Data Users Group Organized
• National Humanities Alliance to Hear Senators Durbin and Warren at Annual Meeting
• Interventions for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Native American Populations
• RFI: Implementation Plans for NIH ACD Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group’s Recommendations
• NIA Seeks Applications to Explain Regional and International Differences in Health and Longevity at Older Ages
• NIAAA Seeks Research on Alcohol and HIV/AIDS

February 11, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 3

• House Majority Leader Questions Federal Funding of Social Science Research
• NSF Director Suresh Steps Down; Will Become President of Carnegie Mellon
• Carolyn Clancy Leaving AHRQ
• National Climate Assessment Draft Open for Public Comment
• Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Calls for More Language and Cultural Training
• Healthy People 2020 Reviews Cancer and Genomics Progress
• AHRQ Report Shares Lessons on Advancing Patient-Centered Care through Health IT
• PCORI Governing Board Discusses Priority Setting for Patient Oriented Research
• NIJ Seeks Proposals for Research on Firearms and Violence
• William Julius Wilson Announced as Recipient of Moynihan Prize
• Sheldon Danziger Named New President of Russell Sage Foundation
• Sequester Looms Larger; NDD Coalition Assesses Current Fiscal Deal
• PAA Holds Congressional Briefing on Immigration
• AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Discusses Children’s Rights
• NSF, NEH, IMLS Join International Partners to Fund Another Round of Digging Into Data Challenge
• NSF Solicits Applications for Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the SBE Sciences
• Proposals Designed to Examine School Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies, Obesogenic Behaviors, and Weight Outcomes Wanted
• Policy Fellowship Opportunity at Human Research Protections’ Office
• AERA Solicits Applications for Institute on Statistical Analysis
• SAGE Makes Open Access Publications More Available to Social Science and Humanities Scholars

January 28, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 2

• Fiscal Trifecta Very Much in Play
• Collins Discusses Impact of FY 2013 Budget Process on NIH
• NIH SMRB Begin Discussion of the Value of Biomedical Research
• NICHD Holds 149th Advisory Committee Meeting
• BBCSS Considers Revisions to the Common Rule for Social and Behavioral Science Research
• EDM Forum & AHRQ Launch New Journal, eGEMs
• Brookings Foreign Policy Scholars Advise on “Big Bets and Black Swans

January 14, 2013, Volume 32 Issue 1

• Welcome to 2013
• The New Congress Continues to Organize
• Positions Filled in the Executive Branch
• NIH Data and Information Implementation Plan
• Overall Success Rate for NIH Research Grant Remains Static
• Justice Office Scientific Advisory Board Meets
• NSF to Alter Research Reporting Requirements
• DBASSE Holds Planning Meeting on Science of Team Science
• NAS Holds Workshop on the Design of the National Children’s Study
• Shorter Lives, Poorer Health: U.S. Losing Ground in the Control of Diseases, Injuries, and Other Sources of Morbidity
• PCAST Releases Agricultural Preparedness Report
• NIH Seeks Applications for Exploratory/Developmental Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health
• FDA Offers Fellowships to Work on Tobacco Regulation