NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The article presents information on meetings related to social development in the U.S. The Inter-American Conference on Research and Training in Sociology, a three-day conference, August 27 to 29, 1960 was held at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California. The Bay Area Forum for Social Science Studies in the Health Fields was organized in March, 1961 to provide a common meeting point and discussion platform for social scientists engaged in applied, theoretical and experimental research in the health fields. A series of informal monthly meetings is planned in which guest speakers will discuss their work with fellow sociologists, anthropologists and others interested in this area. The National Institute of Mental Health is making available, under the Mental Health Small Research Grant Program, grants up to a maximum of 3,500 dollars plus indirect costs to encourage the initiation of research in the social and medical sciences relevant to mental health.