Sigma Xi honor society Student Research Conference in Raleigh

Colleagues: Please note that "science" includes behavioral science. 

Sigma Xi, the global honor society for research scientists and engineers will host its tenth annual Student Research Conference this November in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, Sigma Xi wants to issue a special invitation to North Carolina undergraduate and graduate students to share their research through poster presentations at the Raleigh Convention Center on November 11 and 12, 2011.

We hope to feature strong presentations from students at North Carolina State University to research scientists from across the globe. Posters will be accepted in all fields of science and engineering and awards will be given for outstanding presentations. 

A full announcement that you may forward to your students is included below [after the jump].

Additional information at: http://www.sigmaxi.org/meetings/annual/src.shtml

Email questions to meeting@sigmaxi.org

Thank you,

Kevin Bowen, JD

Sigma Xi Program Manager, Society Grants and Awards

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Funding Opportunity: Advancing HIV Prevention through Transformative Behavioral and Social Science Research (R01)

The NIH has issued this funding opportunity announcement (FOA). It appears to be quite broadly based in the social and behavioral sciences, as suggested in its FOA description:

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications that will advance generalizable knowledge about HIV prevention through transformative behavioral and social science research. An underlying assumption for this funding opportunity is that methods of and findings from social and behavioral studies can make essential contributions to research that utilizes biomedical modalities. In addition, biomedical perspectives are essential for the advancement of social and behavioral HIV research on HIV prevention. Therefore, this FOA invites studies that are comprehensive in the sense that the reciprocal influences of relevant variables, whether social, behavioral, or biomedical are included in study design and interpretation. This FOA is intended to address the goals of the National HIV AIDS Strategy, and therefore studies should address issues that are highly relevant to the domestic (i.e., United States) HIV problem.

Details are at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-12-080.html