- NIMH Advisory Council Meeting - February 11 @12 PM ET (Virtual). The National Advisory Mental Health Council (NAMHC) Open Policy Session offers a unique opportunity for the mental health research and advocacy communities to stay up-to-date on the latest National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) programs and priorities. Available here.
- FABBS Advocacy Update and Office Hours - February 13 @ 1:00 PM ET (virtual). FABBS will be hosting another advocacy update and "office hours" style meeting on February 13th. We hope to see you there. Please visit our website for more advocacy resources, here. Register here. Click here to view our website with the presentation slides. Please note, as we are still finalizing them, kindly refrain from distributing further at this time.
- RFI for the NIH Disability Research Strategic Plan. Deadline March 12. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is developing the NIH Strategic Plan for Disability Health Research (FY26-FY30) and is seeking input on its draft framework. This Request for Information (RFI) invites feedback from the research community to help shape the plan. For inquiries, email disabilityhealthresearch@nih.gov. View the complete RFI here.
- FABBS Accepting Nominations for Student Awards - Deadline March 28. FABBS is now accepting nominations for its Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Awards and Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards, which honor student investigators whose research demonstrates exceptional quality and meaningful impact on society. Don’t miss the chance to recognize outstanding student contributions to the behavioral and brain sciences. Click here for more information and how to nominate.
- 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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