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By exploiting the cancellation of the 2012 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, we investigate the role of conferences in facilitating academic collaboration. We assembled data sets comprising 17,467 academics, and in difference‐in‐differences analysis we find that the conference cancellation led to a decrease in individuals’ likelihood of co‐authoring an article with another attendant by 16%. Moreover, collaborations formed among attendants of (occurring) conferences are associated with more successful co‐publications: an effect which is sharpest for teams that are new or non‐collocated. Conferences seem to de‐cluster the co‐authorship network. Altogether, our findings demonstrate the importance of conferences in scientific production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an overview of the work reported at a symposium on age-related changes in the structure and function of forests in the United States Pacific Northwest. Some of the work presented at this meeting is reported in the peer-reviewed papers comprising this journal issue. Age-related changes in leaf structure, CO2 assimilation rate, stable carbon isotope ratio, nitrogen concentration and stomatal limitation were demonstrated at many organizational scales. At larger scales, age-related changes were reported in canopy structure and light profile, stand productivity, tree mortality and respiration. These data raise new questions about the potential interaction among the structural and functional changes in aging forests, and indicate many avenues for future research concerning tree growth and ecosystem functioning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers various announcements related to the U.S.-based learned society American Genetic Association (AGA) in 2014 including the Stephen J. O'Brien Award to be granted to the journal's best student paper, the meeting of AGA on June 28-29 and the introduction of the Special Events Awards.

The article presents information about the fifty-third annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). The conference took place on May at the Marriott Pavilion Downtown in Saint Louis, Missouri. Official registration was 566, including 77 new members. mere were 159 first timers of which 72 were students. A breakdown of the registration revealed 44 percent affiliated with academic institutions, 37 percent commercial, 10 percent government, 6 percent nonprofit, and 3 percent other. A total of 460 people were listed as participants in a variety of roles: session organizers, plenary speakers, short-course instructors, panelists, chairs, discussants, authors, and presenters of papers. In keeping with the tradition for conferences held during even-numbered years, the conference site was shared by the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), whose conference ran May 13-15. Joint AAPOR/WAPOR paper sessions included the themes of public opinion in developing countries, comparisons across cultures, and surveys and the courts.

During the Second World War, the British book trade faced severe shortages of paper, of labour, particularly in the printing and binding sectors, and of shipping space for imports of raw materials and exports of finished books. These limitations drastically reduced the number of books publishers produced—supplies to British booksellers were strictly rationed and exports dwindled to a mere fraction of their pre-war levels. American publications, less affected by war-time shortages, began to supplant British exports in certain key markets. Concern intensified in Britain that this trend would continue, seriously and permanently damaging the book export trade. Overseas book sales were particularly valued, not only because of their very real contribution to the balance of trade, but also because of their immeasurable contributions to the promotion of British culture and ideas around the world: ‘Books are ambassadors of British culture… Books are salesmen of British goods.’1 Prompted by the desire to reclaim markets neglected during the war, drawn by the lure of new markets emerging after, and constantly motivated by the treat of competition from America, the British book trade waged a great campaign to increase book exports. Individual publishers, trade organizations, government ministries and charitable organizations all cooperated in this export drive, introducing an astonishing number of new initiatives and projects between 1940 and 1960. This paper charts traces the motivations behind the book export drive and describes the major initiatives it prompted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the fifty-second conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research held on May 15-18, 1997 in Norfolk, Virginia. The conference focused on the future of survey research on new methods of data collection, problems in maintaining response rates, and the latest methods for developing questionnaires. And there were many papers on that highly visible test of the accuracy of surveys related with the presidential elections. The session, entitled "Controversies in Pre-Election Polling," featured researchers C. Everett Ladd, Kathy Frankovic, Frank Newport, and John Zogby. Frank Newport, from the Gallup Organization, led off the session. He presented statistics on the margin of error in the presidential poll results going back to the 1940s. Several other sessions concerned the problems and impact of different modes of data collection. Two of these focused on the latest technology for doing surveys, the uses of the Internet for collecting data and disseminating the results. Two other sessions explored the impact of computer-assisted interviewing.

Discusses the role of churches in the U.S. in the passage of the Civil Rights Act (CRA) of 1964. Efforts by the National Council of Churches (NCC), an advocate of social gospel, to support the CRA; Information on a conference on religion and race convened by faith communities in Chicago, Illinois in 1963; Factor behind the establishment of the new Commission on Religion and Race of the NCC.

This article reports on the proceedings of the forty-fifth annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), held in May 1989, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The four-day Conference consisted of 27 AAPOR paper panels, 5 WAPOR paper panels, 15 roundtables, two plenaries, and one didactic session. Together, these sessions included over 175 different presentations. The tally of all names listed in the program-including session chairpersons, discussants, roundtable panelists, paper givers and coauthors-indicates that 280 different persons contributed to the intellectual content of the conference program in some direct fashion. The two, evening plenary sessions focused on "Perestroika, Glasnost, and Public Opinion in the Soviet Union" and "Newspapers and Television as Election Pollsters: Do They Do Anything Right?" The didactic session was on "Designing Good Graphs." The AAPOR Award for exceptionally distinguished achievement was presented to Herbert E. Krugman.

A 2009 conference at Arizona State University brought together leading scholars to discuss the future of forensic science in light of the blockbuster National Academy of Sciences report entitled ‘Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward’. This paper introduces the special issue on forensic science that this conference spawned, considers the significance of the report and then offer reasons to be pessimistic about whether major reforms are forthcoming. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article provides information about the development of health education in the U.S. The International Conference on Community Health Nursing Research has made a second announcement of its Third International Conference. A conference titled "Gender, Work and Organization" will be held on June 22-24, 2005. The Alberta Centre for Active Living has published "An Environmental Scan of Workplace Wellness Programs in Alberta."

This article provides information on the 2002 annual membership meeting called to order by outgoing American Association for Public Opinion Research president Don Dillman at Saint Pete Beach, Florida in May. Secretary-treasurer Rob Santos reported that the financial status is good. The association has a surplus of $40,000. In the membership committee report, Dawn Nelson reported that the association have 1,378 members. A variety of outreach efforts were made, including sending e-mails and letters and making phone calls to lapsed members. Scott Keeter reported that the Standards Committee was enlarged to include members from each chapter and Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics and Consortium of Social Science Associations representatives. Diane O'Rourke, chair of the Endowment Committee, asked the members present to review the conference program booklet. They show the goals of the endowment, the status of the funds and the names of the members and organizations who have contributed since the inception of the fund in October 2000. Dick Kulta, reported that despite concerns about attendance after September 11, 2001, numbers were fine. He received 332 submissions resulting in 229 papers, 59 sessions, 10 roundtable discussions and 3 poster sessions.

This year's conference, May 19-22, was the second held at "The Inn" at Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, and the first under the new management of the inn. Attendance was large and, as usual for American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) conferences, the attendees were argumentative. It was a good and useful conference highlighted by three major sessions, the Paul Lazarsfeld Memorial Lecture given by Peter Rossi, the plenary session on the 1976 election, and the return of "The Author Meets the Critics" in honor of Shirley Star. The conference chair, Howard Freeman, and his able committee put together an outstanding program. An innovation this year was the introduction of two sessions of contributed papers. The growth in the number of papers that did not fit any particular session but were of high quality led to this departure. The large number of such papers is a healthy sign for the field as a whole. A strong effort to circulate campuses by Nelson Foote and his committee also led to a set of high quality submissions for the student award. As usual, Joe Klapper did yeoman work in planning and arranging the physical facilities.

The article briefs on events and other happenings taking place in the country under a section of "News and Notes" of the journal "Public Opinion Quarterly." The twenty-ninth annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research will be held May 30 to June 4, 1974, on the theme of "understanding the United States." In another development, a two-year project now underway at the University of Illinois' Survey Research Laboratory will collate and synthesize present knowledge of consumer behavior gathered from various social science disciplines. The project will solicit papers from experts representing specific disciplines, and these will be reviewed and discussed at a small invitational conference prior to their publication. The Institute for Survey Research at Temple University has completed a mail survey of members of the American Psychological Association's Consumer Psychology division, with the aim of developing a more systematic understanding of ethical problems encountered by consumer psychologists.

The article presents information on developments related to the field of biosciences and the people associated with it, in the U.S. Parithychery R. Srinivasan was recently appointed as president of the New York Academy of Sciences for 1980. Ruth Patrick has been elected chairman of the Section of Population Biology, Evolution and Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences. Andrei D. Sakharov has received the Presidential Award of the New York Academy of Sciences for outstanding accomplishments in science. Plans for a Science and Technology Magnet School are underway by the Dallas, Texas, Independent School District. The American Fisheries Society has issued a call for papers for its 110th annual meeting, to be held at Kentucky from September 21-24, 1980.

The article highlights the second International Congress of Parasitology in the U.S. It is stated that the organizers attempted to provide an official sponsorship for the corridor conferences and eliminate most of the formal presentations. The usual 10-minute papers were replaced by a large series of workshops. The presentations were confined to the opening plenary session, closing plenary session and seven technical review sessions.

This paper is the Presidential Address which was delivered before the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Public Opinion Research in Chicago, Illinois, on May 10, 1958. The original, written and spoken with frequent resort to the first person pleural, loses something of its earnest tone when translated into a more conventional style for publication but it still calls for constructive criticism of current opinion research and effect the preparation to meet the increasingly exacting standards of the future. Frederick F. Stephan was President of the American Association for Public Opinion Research for the 1957-1959 term. He is Professor of Social Statistics at Princeton University. The central principle of the Conference is to take a broad look at what is being done in opinion research and to think more deeply about its meaning for clients, the public at large, and researchers themselves. In furtherance of this purpose the author chose as the title of the address on which this paper is based, a simple but serious question.

The author reflects on the Psychological Society of America (PSA) in its 25th year, accommodating memberships of 850 individuals. He said that the papers to be presented at the 1971 PSA Annual Meeting, dealt with electron microscopy, biochemistry, physiology and ecology. He also mentions that technology has contributed a lot to change in emphasis of the progress of phycology.

The article presents information on "International Congress of Sociology," D. Gusti, President of the 14th International Congress of Sociology, urged American sociologists to participate as actively as possible in the Congress. If they can not attend it personally, he asked them to send their papers to be read at the Congress and to be published in the volume of the Proceedings of the Congress. He indicates that so far the number of American papers is much smaller than that from European countries.

The article discusses the paper from the Commission on Undergraduate Education in the Biological Sciences (CUEBS) Symposium held in the U.S. The paper focuses on the relationship between research participation and good teaching. The publication of CUEBS, "Biology for the Non-Major," has raised questions about the structure of a biology course intended for the nonmajor. It cites that the replies on the questions have been edited into a book to present several perceptions represented in the letters of respondents. The author also stresses that the same technique was applied to address the problem of the assumed relationship that exists between research participation and good teaching.

The article offers information on several meetings related to biosciences to be held in the U.S. including the Third Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment to be held at the University of Michigan from October 14-16, 1964, the Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology to be held in Ohio from November 11-13, 1964, and the Animal Nutrition Research Council's annual meeting to be held at Washington D.C. on October 21, 1964.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium sponsored by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on use of biotechnology to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Topics include the sustainability and land use, biomass recalcitrance and development of new or improved biomass sources. The symposium featured several engineers, scientists and policy makers.

Reports on the Systematic Biology annual council meeting on June 20, 2003 in Chico, California. Attendance; President's report; Approval of the 2002 minutes of the meeting; Nominating committee report and election results.

The article details the proceedings of the 55th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) at the Doubletree Hotel Jantzen Beach, Portland, Oregon, from May 18-20, 2000. The conference had a record 68 sessions reviewing the impact and challenges of the e-revolution on research and society, methodological issues, questionnaire design, the 2000 Census, elections, global public opinion and other issues. Nine of the sessions were jointly sponsored by World APOR, with another nine jointly sponsored by the International Field Directors/Technologies Association. Over 650 people contributed to the 2000 AAPOR conference program, including invited speakers, presenters, coauthors, session chairs/moderators and discussants. The theme of the 2000 onference was Facing the Challenges of the New Millennium. These challenges include the impact of technology and the Internet on society, on politics and on survey research. The program featured eight panels devoted to technology issues, including The Impact of Internet Usage, Improving Internet Response Rates, Examination of Web TV for Internet Data Collection, The Internet's Impact on Society and Internet Survey Format and Design Issues. Representatives from virtually every major Internet research company participated in these sessions. Several panel discussants questioned if Internet penetration was sufficient at this point to conduct cross-section samples of the public.

The article reports on the 1997 annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) called into session by vice president and president-elect James Beniger on May 17, 1997 in Norfolk, Virginia. Beniger thanked the outgoing AAPOR Council and president Diane Colasanto for their efforts, particularly in pursuing the standards case and in publishing "Best Practices for Survey and Public Opinion Research" and "Survey Practices AAPOR Condemns." Incoming secretary-treasurer Mark Schutman reported that the organization appears to be in good financial shape but that it is likely to run a small deficit when the books are closed on June 30, 1997. He noted that it is not possible to estimate final income and expenses at this time, because the conference results are not yet included in the tallies. There were several reasons for the possible deficit. The Council authorized two additional expenditures this year. The AAPOR Secretariat computer was upgraded in a one-time expenditure. The Council also authorized adding a half-time position to the secretariat, an ongoing expense.

This section presents news briefs as of December 1978. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concluded its three-year inquiry into the use of invisible coding of mail survey questionnaires. The practice, which the commission's investigation found not to be a common one, has in the past been employed to enable identification of respondents who have returned completed questionnaires. The FTC held that under certain circumstances, such as a prior promise of respondent anonymity, such coding could constitute an unfair and deceptive trade practice in violation of the federal law. Meanwhile, Professors Ivor Francis and J. Sedransk are attempting to compile a list of names and addresses of developers of statistical packages and programs, and separately, a list of experiences users of these programs. The project's objective is to classify, review and evaluate available software and thereby enable users to identify what is most suitable to their individual needs. Moving on, the Seventh Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, scheduled tentatively for early May 1979 will bring researchers from a variety of disciplines together with policy makers from several branches of government. Authors of papers selected for presentation will be reimbursed for travel and living expenses during the conference if no alternative source of funding is available.

Reports on the holding of the First International Conference on Gilles de Bins, dit Binchois at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, New York, from october 31 to November 1, 1995. Number of papers presented; Interpretation of a sign used by Binchois.

This article presents information about events related to sociology and psychology to be held during June-December, 1960. The Sixty-eighth Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association will be held in Chicago during September 1-7, 1960. The American Sociological Association will convene for its fifty-fifth annual meeting at Statler-Hilton Hotel, New York City, during August 29-31, 1960. The Association for Education in Journalism will hold its 1960 convention at Pennsylvania State University during August 29-September 2, 1960. The program will include sessions on media analysis, for which papers have been solicited from researchers in various fields besides journalism. Further information may be obtained from the Program Chairman, Wayne A. Danielson, School of Journalism, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Syracuse University, New York, has announced that the third annual Maxwell Institute on American Overseas Operations would be held at Pinebrook Conference Center, Saranac Lake, New York, during August 14-27, 1960.

The author reflects on dermal exposure to chemicals. He points out that various kinds of diseases could come from occupational dermal exposure to chemicals that may occur everyday. He mentions a conference on the subject held by the U.S. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. He offers details on a project initiated by the Dermal Exposure Network for preventing dermal exposure.

Most of the papers in this symposium were presented at a conference on the economics of information held at Stanford in April 1975, under the auspices of the National Science Foundation—National Bureau of Economic Research (four of the papers, those by Heal, Salop, Spence and Stiglitz, had been submitted to the Review earlier, but because of the similarity of topic, are published with the conference papers). The papers, though all related to the problems arising from costly information, are diverse both with respect to the question addressed, the techniques of analysis employed and the particular markets investigated. A basic theme running through most of the papers is that imperfect information alters, in a fundamental way, the conventional notion of a market, with buyers and sellers coming together to trade; in a full information equilibrium there is a single price, markets clear and all individuals and firms view themselves as price takers. The price charged is independent of the quantity purchased. Although the notion of the market-place is often thought of as an idealization, even when there is not a single market-place at which all transactions occur, the economy behaves as if there were a single market-place; this will be true so long as there are some arbitrageurs to make sure that the "law of single price" prevails. Finally, conventional theory has shown that under fairly weak conditions such a competitive equilibrium exists and is Pareto Optimal. Recent developments in the economics of information, including the papers presented here, have shown that ail of these statements are questionable. In the papers presented here, there is not a single price in equilibrium; firms do not act as price takers; prices do more than just clear markets—they convey information; prices charged may depend on the quantity purchased; competitive equilibrium may not exist and may not be Pareto Optimal. The basic character of how we ought to view the competitive economy is altered if we take seriously imperfections of information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 1974 American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Conference was held between May 30-June 2, at the Hotel Sagamore in Bolton Landing, Lake George, New York. It was the twenty-ninth annual conference on public opinion. A stimulating program of twenty-two formal sessions, four methodological open discussions, and eighteen luncheon round-table discussions was organized by conference chairman John P. Robinson under the general theme "Continuities in Public Opinion Research." The AAPOR Award for distinguished achievement was presented this year to Bernard Berelson. The methodological open discussions, a 1974 innovation for AAPOR was developed to encourage critical review of the central methodological issues of public opinion research. While varying in format, they seek to encourage member discussion of short papers presented by the discussion leaders and invited panelists.

The Pacific Sociological Society held its eleventh annual meeting at the State College of Washington, Pullman, Washington D.C. and the University of Idaho, Moscow on December 27-29, 1939. Some of the papers which were presented were "The Radio as a Social Institution," by Martin H. Neumeyer, University of Southern California; "Sociological Analysis of the Concept of News," by Carl F. Reuss, State College of Washington; "Certain Psychological Processes in the Life History of Welfare Agencies," by S. H. Jameson, University of Oregon; "Political Movements in the State of Minnesota," by Calvin F. Schmid, University of Washington; "Democratic Ideologies in the Sociology of Ward and Cooley," by Elton Guthrie, University of Washington; "Occupational Structure and the Relationship Between Jews and non-Jews in Detroit," by Henry Meyer, State College of Washington and "Teaching Sociology in Our Secondary Schools," by Duane Robinson, Whitman College. Papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Pacific Sociological Society.

This article reports that proceedings of the Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research held at Lake George, New York in May 1963, will be published in the winter issue of the journal "Public Opinion Quarterly." This change from the usual practice of including the proceedings in the fall issue was made to allow more time for the assembly and editing of abstracts of papers presented at the conference.

The 1958 American Association for Public Opinion Research Proceedings Conference was held from May 8 to May 11, 1958 at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. The program, apart from the business meetings, included eight formal sessions, ten round table sessions, and two general sessions-the Presidential Address and the review session of "The Academic Mind". President Stephan's paper appears elsewhere in this issue of "Public Opinion Quarterly".

This section offers news briefs on issues related to biology. The "Conservation Genetics Symposium" sponsored by the Third American Genetic Association (AGA) will be held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. A cash prize will be included in the Stephen J. O'Brien Award for best student paper to be given at the annual meeting of the AGA. AGA president Michael Lynch will host the 2007 meeting of the society titled "Mechanisms of Genome Evolution" in Indiana.

The article provides information on events related to heredity to be held in the U.S. in 2007. The Conservation Genetics Symposium will be held in New York on September 27-30. The Stephen J. O'Brien Award for the best student paper published in the "Journal of Heredity" in 2006 will be given at the annual meeting of the American Genetic Association (AGA). AGA president-elect Michael Lynch will host the meeting of the association at Indiana University in Bloomington on July 11-13.

The article offers information on the scheduled activities of the American Genetic Association in 2007, including the Conservation Genetics Symposium, the presentation of the Stephen J. O'Brien Award for the best student paper published in the "Journal of Heredity" in 2006 and the annual meeting of the American Genetic Association which will be held at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana on July 11-13, 2007.

The article presents a speech by Frank Newport, president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), delivered at the AAPOR's 66th annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona, May 13, 2011, in which he discussed the measurement of public opinion as a primary focus of AAPOR, the significance of public opinion in political discourse, and how public opinion impacts government policy.

Problem: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted existing healthcare disparities in the US, with people of color dying from COVID-19 at twice the rate of white people. A striking disparity in vaccination rates for racial minorities followed, with vaccination rates among white people over 2.5 times that for Latinx and nearly twice that for Black people (March 2021). It is vital we ensure tailored public health messaging regarding the COVID-19 vaccine is delivered to all communities. Facebook provides an opportunity for large-scale, targeted health promotion. Description of practice: Our goal is to increase COVID-19 vaccination uptake across the US, with a specific focus on reaching underrepresented communities most affected by the pandemic. We created a public health campaign centered on a representative group of physicians conveying their own short (<1 minute) video messages that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective. We placed these videos as advertisements on Facebook and directed them using geotargeting to reach zip codes in the US with the highest COVID-19 death rates cross-referenced with zip codes in which >50% of the population is Black or Latinx. We launched the campaign in California on April 9, and nationwide on April 12 2021. The primary outcome measures of the campaign were reach (number of individuals exposed, frequency and duration of views) and engagement (number of likes and shares). Results: During our campaign (April 9-April 30), the videos appeared on Facebook newsfeeds 54.4 million times, reaching 9.9 million individuals an average of 5.5 times each. Overall, the videos received 10,053 reactions and 1,161 shares. 1.8 million video plays ran for at least 25% of the video. Lessons: We demonstrate the feasibility of rapid, social media-based dissemination of tailored public health messages regarding the COVID-19 vaccine to communities in need. We are now focusing efforts on strategies to assess the impact of such messaging on vaccination uptake. Key messages: Geotargeting on social media enabled rapid dissemination of COVID-19 vaccine uptake messages to underrepresented communities. Further work is required to evaluate behavioral change impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents the highlights of the American Society for Aesthetics' 59th annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sessions and topics; Names of invited speakers.

Discusses the challenges of finding the evolutionary origin of feathers which was the focus of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology symposium in Denver, Colorado from January 6 to 10, 1999. Origins of the symposium; Overview of the issues regarding the evolutionary origins of feathers and avian flight; Importance of the symposium in improving the database; Discussion on the possible directions of research.

Reports that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) will sponsor a symposium, Biotic Diversity and Germplasm Preservation--Global Imperatives, in May 1988 at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland. Inclusion of invited papers, invited and contributed poster presentations, demonstrations of computer technology, and visits to ARS laboratories in the symposium; Focus of the program on the needs and opportunities to preserve and use both naturally occurring and engineered diversity; Sponsorship of the symposium by ARS in collaboration with the Friends of Agricultural Research in Beltsville, MD, and the Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources of the National Research Council's Board on Agriculture in Washington, D.C.

In his essay, titled, "The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the City Environment," sociologist Robert Park and his colleagues at the University of Chicago, Illinois, developed several suggestions into an unprecedented program of empirical research on urban life and social problems. The theme for the 1995 annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), "The Problems and Prospects of Urban Society," is addressed to concerns that motivated the work of Park and his colleagues. A number of sessions at this meeting of SSSP highlight continuities in the urban crises that Park envisioned as research problems. Many of the papers being presented reflect the methodological and theoretical heritage of the Chicago tradition. Much of the excitement and collective energy of the academic community at Chicago was generated by a strong sense of mission, the mission of building a science of sociology. The excitement that pervades students' accounts of their research during the era reflects a conviction that they were making a contribution to this mission, that their work was loaded with scientific value.

Presents news briefs relating to biologists and biology. Dedication of an addition to the U.S. National Clonal Repository System in Hilo, Hawaii, which houses the nation's germplasm for tropical, Pacific Basin crops such as acerola, cherry, breadfruit, and guava; Meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences during which awards were presented to James F. Gusella, Frank H. Ruddle, Saul Krugman, and Barbara A. Baird; Creation of the Association of Ecosystem Research Centers; Richard C. Atkinson, chancellor of the University of California at San Diego, who has been named president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Offers a pragmatic, common sense approach to mounting a successful conference on ethnicity, as seen from the Pace University experience. Committee formation; Funding; Program planning; Publicity; Food.

The annual business meeting was held at Carson Inn-Nordic Hills in Illinois, on May 31, 1975. President Herbert Abelson. The Secretary Treasurer commended the new Administrator, Dede Barnes, who took over from Hanna Benzwie at NORC/New York in midseason, and Assistant Administrator Robert Surabian, who had virtually completed the computerization of AAPOR's membership records. She also thanked Ronald Gatty of the City University of New York for making available computer time and expertise to help develop the system. The 1975 Directory of Members was based largely on computer information. It was mailed out in mid-May this year, before the conference, as it was a Special Edition in honor of the 30th Annual Conference.

Information on several papers discussed at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' forum on research with recombinant DNA is presented. Discussions at the forum highlighted the inherent dangers in mixing genetic materials of different organisms and inadvertently creating a virus or bacteria that might cause widespread disease to animals or plants. The forum featured several scientists including David A. Hamburg, Anthony Mazzocchi, and Robert L. Sinsheime.

This article reports on the annual membership meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), held on My 19, 1989, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Retiring president Phil Meyer presided the meeting. President Meyer called the meeting to order. He announced that Chuck Cowan has expressed his intention to step down as Site Selection Committee chair. He introduced Karen Goldenberg, who has been selected as Associate Site Selection Committee chair by the Executive Council. Meyer reiterated the Council's interest in hearing from volunteers to serve on the committee. He then turned to various Council members for reports of their committees' activities during the past year. In reviewing budgetary matters discussed during the past year, three items were noted. A review had been undertaken of the relative costs of supplying services to foreign members: while the dues structure was not covering the full cost of all these memberships, the Council agreed to continue to provide a small net subsidy to this class of members. Second, a decision was made to invest nonworking AAPOR cash balances in conservative bond funds in order to obtain a higher rate of return than is available in checking accounts. Third, slight revisions will be made to current accounting procedures to reflect better the allocation of funds to projects that continue across multiple fiscal years, such as the allocations to cover the production and printing of the AAPOR history.

The 1960 American Association for Public Opinion Research Conference was held jointly with the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) in May 1960 at the Hotel Traymore in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In addition to eleven formal sessions and six round tables, there were two evening sessions, one of the them was a panel session on ways of covering the 1960 U.S. election. Professor Samuel A. Stouffer was chairman of the panel on elections. Two of the formal sessions were organized by WAPOR. Abstracts were presented of various research papers given at the formal sessions prepared by their individual authors, their summaries of the round-table discussions were prepared by session chairmen or individuals appointed by the chairmen. The evening session on the U.S. election was also summarized. There was also the presentation of the Julian L. Woodward Award to Clyde N. Hart at the banquet.