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MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS

November

12-13: APA Education Directorate in conjunction with the Texas Psychological Association Convention, San Antonio, will sponsor a workshop for high school psychology teachers. Contact: Martha Braswell, Education Directorate, 750 First St., NE, Washington DC, 20002-4242, (800) 374-2721 ext. 6140, e-mail

13: "The spirit of survivorship: a conference for people touched by cancer," Waltham, Mass., is sponsored by Stepping Stones: Bone Marrow Transplant Support Group, New England Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, The Wellness Community, American Cancer Society, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, New England Medical Center, and Ortho Biotech. The conference is for cancer survivors, people in treatment and caregivers. Contact: (617) 632-6351.

26-28: "The infant speaks: the baby, her family and the therapeutic process," Melbourne, Australia. The conference is sponsored by the World Association for Infant Mental Health and the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health. Contact: Fiona Campbell, e-mail: f.campbell@pb.unimelb.edu.au.

30-Dec 2: The 14th national conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Prevention.Successes 2000: better health for all, Dallas, is sponsored by CDC, Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors and the American Heart Association. Contact: Estella Lazenby, (301) 588-6000, web site: www.cdc.gov/nccdph/.

December

10-12: 1999 Dual Diagnosis Conference, Miami, is sponsored by the Florida Psychological Association (FPA). Contact: FPA, 408 Office Plaza, Tallahassee, FL 32301, (850) 656-2222.

January

24-28: The 26th annual Advanced International Winter Symposium "Addictive disorders and behavioral health," Colorado Springs, Colo. Contact: Garry Forrest, Psychotherapy Associates, P.C., 3208 N. Academy Blvd., Suite 160, Colorado Springs, CO 80917, (719) 594-9304 or (719) 597-5959, fax: (719) 597-0166.

27-30: The eighth annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) conference, "Envisioning healing: interactive technology and the patient-practitioner dialogue," Newport Beach, Calif. The conference is jointly sponsored by Aligned Management Associates and University of California, Irvine. Contact: (860) 447-9796, fax: (860) 444-0362, e-mail: westwood@uconect.net, web site: www.amainc.com.

PROGRAMS

The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect presents the Summer Research Institute, Ithaca, N.Y., which will select 12 researchers for the opportunity to perform secondary analysis on child welfare data-sets with on-site support. Applications are due by Feb.14. Contact: Andres Arroyo, National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect, Family Life Development Center, MVR Hall-Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4401, (607) 255-7799, fax: (607) 255-8562, e-mail: DataCAN@cornell.edu, web site: www.ndacan.cornell.edu.

The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies promotes a new generation of young North American scholars with specialized knowledge of modern and contemporary German and European affairs. The program accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or permanent residents who have completed all coursework required for the PhD. Also eligible are U.S. and Canadian PhDs who received their doctorates within the past two calendar years. Awards provide between nine and twelve months of research support in Berlin with a stipend of DM 2,000 per month. Deadline for applications is Feb. 1. Contact: Berlin Program, Social Science Research Council, 810 Seventh Ave., 31st Floor, New York, NY 10019, (212) 377-2700, fax: (212) 377-2727, e-mail: berlin@ssrc.org, web site: www.ssrc.org.

The Olfactory Fund is seeking talented investigators to conduct research integrating the study of olfaction with current issues in developmental, perceptual, social and cognitive psychology. The Fund is particularly interested in supporting research that relates the sensory properties of environmental odor to measurable endpoints of human performance (mental, physical or behavioral). Contact: Olfactory Research Fund, (212) 725-2755, fax: (212) 779-9072, e-mail: info@olfactory.org.

A nationwide competition sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Research Council of the National Academies announces 25 Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities. Awards will be made for study in research-based doctoral programs (PhD or ScD ) in the life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, engineering sciences, behavioral and social sciences, education and the humanities. Applicants must have completed a PhD or DcD degree no earlier than Jan. 7, 1993 and no later than Mar. 1, 2000. Applicants are expected to be engaged in or planning a career in teaching and research at the college or university level. Stipend of $30,000 for one year; $3,000 travel and relocation allowance; $2,000 cost-of-research allowance; $2,500 employing institution allowance, to be matched by the employing institution. Deadline for applications is Jan. 7. Contact: Fellowship Office, National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20418, (202) 334-2872, fax: (202) 334-3419, e-mail: infofell@nas.edu, web site: national-academies.org/osep/fo.

The Society for the Study of School Psychology (SSSP) is accepting applications for its annual General Purpose Awards Competition. The award honors psychologists in the following categories: scientific contributions to psychology; applications of scientific knowledge to school psychology practice; and development of scientific aspects of school psychology as a specialty in the profession. Grant amounts vary. Call for complete rules of submission. All materials must be received by Feb. 15. Contact: Beeman N. Phillips, SSSP Past President, Department of Educational Psychology, SZB 504, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-1296, (512) 471-4407 or (512) 471-4155, e-mail: beeman.phillips@mail.utexas.edu.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Social Science Computer Review invites submissions for a special issue, "Affects in Cyberspace," being edited by David Heise and Adam King. Papers on the affective or emotional concomitants of online social interaction will be considered. Deadline for submission is Aug. 1. Contact: David R. Heise, SSCORE Special Issue Co-Editor, Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, web site: php.indiana.edu/~adking/aic.htm.

Fifth International conference on client-centered and experiential psychotherapy which includes the first formal meetings of the World Association for Person-Centered Counseling and Psychotherapy to be held June 24-29 in Chicago is accepting proposals and abstracts. Deadline for submissions is Dec. 15. Contact: Margaret Warner, 5436 S. Cornell, Chicago, IL 60615, e-mail: mswarner@ripco.com.

Ninth annual conference of International Coalition Against Sexual Harassment (ICASH), which will be held Aug. 10-11, Washington, D.C., is seeking papers, workshops, panels and discussion groups on all aspects of sexual harassment. Deadline for submissions is Feb. 15. Contact: Susan Fineran, Boston University, (617) 353-7912 or Patti Giuffre, Southwest Texas university, e-mail: pg07@swt.edu.

--L. Mattas-Curry





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