- The Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is convening a conference on June 17th-18th (in-person in Bethesda, MD and virtual) with an early career networking event on June 16th that welcomes those interested in neuroscience and related research fields. This meeting aims to build the BRAIN community, while providing a forum for discussing scientific developments and potential new directions, and to identify areas for collaboration and research coordination. Register here.
- Opportunity to hear from NSF program officers. June 18 2024 (11 am CT). Join FABBS and the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology (COGDOP) for a webinar promoting funding opportunities from the Directorate for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the NSF. Register here.
- Dr. Diana Bianchi will update FABBS members on current NICHD activities and initiatives. June 27 2024 (10 am CT). This is a particularly well timed opportunity to engage with Dr. Bianchi as NICHD is currently in the process of updating their strategic plan. Register here.
- Knowledge acquisition and transformation (KAT) is a text structure based framework with strong empirical evidence. Accumulating evidence continues to show that KAT helps children to select important ideas, encode strategic memory, generate main ideas, extend the main idea to summaries, and extrapolate inferences. The Literacy.IO team at Texas A&M University has prepared an asynchronous web-based professional development system to bring this intervention to a geographically dispersed audience worldwide. Through multiple grants from the US Department of Education, we are presenting this resource to all SSSR members at no cost. Please sign up and complete the eight-hour PD to learn more about transforming comprehension for all learners (e.g., Special Education, Bilingual Learners, Dyslexic Children). Register here.
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