October 23-24, 2008
University Park, PA

“Development of Hispanic Children in Immigrant Families: Challenges and Prospects,” is the topic of Penn State’s 16th Annual Symposium on Family Issues, to be held October 23-24, 2008, on the University Park campus. Sixteen scholars from major institutions will integrate perspectives from multiple social sciences and address policy implications. Presentations and discussions at the symposium will focus on (1) social ecologies of Hispanic children in immigrant families, including the range of setting characteristics and the ways in which setting characteristics have implications for child and youth well-being and development, (2) the role of families in children’s successful adaptation to new “host” environments; (3) the implications of school and community contexts as well as education policies for children’s school experiences and academic achievement; and (4) the roles of health care, social service provision, and health policies in children’s health and well-being. Lead speakers include: Richard Alba (SUNY Albany), Kimberly Updegraff (Arizona State University), Carola Suárez-Orozco (NYU), and Margarita Alegria (Harvard Medical School). Information and registration at http://www.pop.psu.edu/events/symposium/2008.htm or contact Carolyn Scott at css7@psu.edu.

June 23 - 25, 2008
Washington, D.C.
Hyatt Regency Washington

Head Start's National Research Conference is a biennial event, which provides practitioners, researchers, administrators, and policy makers involved in Head Start, early childhood, childcare, health care, and administration programs the opportunity to share research that promotes positive development in young children.

The major objectives of the conference are to focus on the development of competent children, understand how families, schools, communities, and cultural context shape young children's development, study evidence-based programming and strategies, and re-examine traditional early childhood practices and approaches.

The intent of this conference is to link researchers and practitioners in order to transform research into practical applications. Previous Head Start Research Conferences addressed concerns about the social context in which children and families live, and the importance of communicating relevant research to the practitioner community.

For more information, visit http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hsrc/index.html or contact hsrc@xtria.com. Register at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hsrc/registration/index.html.

The XIVth European Conference on Developmental Psychology will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania, from August 18-22, 2009. The conference will focus on the most relevant topics and issues within recent theoretical and methodological advances of developmental psychology, basic research and applied areas and will provide a forum for presentation of a wide range of
papers in all aspects of human development in European contexts. Over and beyond basic research, we will put emphasis on the transfer of psychological insights to social policies and programme development. For more details please visit http://www.ecdp2009.com.

The Society for Research on Adolescence invites proposals for Study Groups focusing on new conceptual, empirical, methodological, and professional issues within the study of adolescence. SRA members with common interests in emerging, cutting-edge issues or theoretical perspectives are encouraged to apply for SRA Study Group status. Established study groups may request up to $4,000 as seed money to support their work. The deadline for consideration is August 31, 2008.

SRA members interested in submitting Study Group proposals should refer to the SRA Study Groups Committee Policies and Procedures located at http://www.s-r-a.org/documents/miscellaneous/studygroup_policies.pdf
for details concerning application. If you have questions after having consulted the guidelines, please contact Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck at m.zimmer-gembeck@griffith.edu.au.

Congratulations to the new representatives of the 2008-2010 SRA Council.

President-Elect
Niobe Way

Council Representatives
Sandra Graham
John Schulenberg

Student Representative
Laura Wray-Lake

July 6-18, 2008
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

The National Center for Education Research (NCER) in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U. S. Department of Education announces its second Summer Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials to increase the national capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations of the impact of education interventions.

Application Deadline: March 14, 2008

For more information about the Training Institute, including the application procedures, please visit: http://ies.ed.gov/ncer/whatsnew/conferences/08rct_traininginstitute/

If you need assistance, please contact Christina Chhin, at (202) 219-2280 or christina.chhin@ed.gov

The APA Science Directorate is pleased to sponsor five Advanced Training Institutes in the summer of 2008. These intensive training programs are hosted each summer at prominent research institutions across the country. ATIs expose advanced graduate students, new and established faculty, post-docs, and other researchers to state-of-the-art research methods and emerging technologies. A list of this year’s programs is included here. Complete information about these exciting programs can be viewed at: http://www.apa.org/science/ati.html

You are invited to apply for these training opportunities. Keep in mind that application deadlines begin in March. Applications are available at http://www.apa.org/science/ati.html and must be submitted electronically through each program's webpage. Tuition for all ATIs is substantially lower than marketplace prices because of a subsidy from APA's Science Directorate or, in the case of "Using Large-Scale Databases," a grant from the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development. For more information, contact APA's Science Directorate at ati@apa.org or (202) 336-6000.

June 6-8, 2008
Québec City, Canada

The Jean Piaget Society announces the 38th Annual Meeting to take place in Québec City, Canada, at the Loews Le Concorde Hotel, on June 6-8, 2008. The theme of this year’s meeting is Adolescent Development: Processes of coordination and change. Our understanding of adolescent biological, cognitive, moral, and social development has been significantly revised over the past decade. The view of adolescence as characterized by progressive, qualitative change has given way to the view that adolescence is a period of vulnerability and instability entailing developmental continuity from childhood to adulthood. Recognizing that current views can obscure what makes adolescence a unique period in the life cycle, one of the major goals of the 2008 meeting is to explore the distinctiveness of adolescence from a constructivist and developmental perspective. The meeting will examine adolescence as a unique time of opportunity and vulnerability, as adolescents actively coordinate capacities, skills, and understandings within and across domains from neurological, cognitive, self-system, moral, and social perspectives..

Plenary speakers include: Robert Crosnoe (University of Texas, Austin), Jay Giedd (National Institutes of Health), Judi Smetana (University of Rochester), Larry Steinberg (Temple University) and Avril Thorne (University of California, Santa Cruz). Invited symposia on topics such as; intersections between peer and romantic relationships, risk and resilience, and constancy and change during adolescence will complement the perspectives offered by the plenary speakers.

Please visit the Jean Piaget Society website, http://www.piaget.org, for program and registration details or write to:

Colette Daiute
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
cdaiute@gc.cuny.ed

The abstract submission is available at www.issbd2008.com. The deadline for the abstract submission was November 7, 2007. For further information about the meeting and the online-abstract submission, please visit our website www.issbd2008.com.