National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works program

The National Endowment for the Arts program, "Grants for Arts: Art Works," is intended to support the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts.  The program allows one application per calendar year per institution.  NC State's slot has re-opened for the August 9, 2012 deadline.  NEA-defined arts categories for which the August 9, 2012 deadline applies: Design, Arts Education, Literature, Media Arts, Music, Theater and Musical Theater, and Visual Arts.

Award:  From $10,000 to $100,000 over up to two years.  All grants require a nonfederal match of at least 1 to 1. 

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Call for Papers: 2013 Community Development Research Conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve System

Colleagues, I received this today from one of the several listservs I subscribe to. This is a very interesting opportunity to present your research on community development, and goes far beyond economics to encompass a wide range of disciplines. 

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Dear Colleagues, 

As you may know, the Community Development/Affairs function of the Federal Reserve System hosts a research conference every other year. We are currently preparing for the 2013 conference, which will be held on April 11-12, 2013 in Washington, D.C. At this time we'd like to share the call for papers, and encourage you and your colleagues to submit relevant work. 
We're very excited about this year's theme, "Resilience and Rebuilding for Low-Income Communities", and about seeking a very expansive perspective of community and economic development research to inform policy and practice. The announcement is below. 
Please share this with researchers whose work addresses the themes and topics of the conference.

Baldy Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies

 

Baldy Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies 

 The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo plans to award  several fellowships for 2012-13 to scholars pursuing important topics in law, legal institutions, and social   policy. Applications are invited from junior and senior scholars from law, the humanities, and the social  sciences.   

Fellows are expected to participate regularly in Baldy Center events, but otherwise have no obligations   beyond vigorously pursuing their research. Fellows receive standard university research privileges (library,   Internet, office space, computer, phone) and are encouraged to develop collaborative research projects  with SUNY Buffalo faculty members where appropriate. Those who wish to teach a course to aid their research or gain teaching experience will be accommodated on a case-by-case basis.   

Communicating Science and Innovation Policy Through Narrative

To Think, To Write, To Publish
Communicating Science and Innovation Policy through Narrative

A rare opportunity for writers and science policy scholars to learn literary techniques and publish their work in a collection of creative nonfiction essays.

WHAT IS IT? A two-part, multi-day workshop that will bring together emerging writers and early career science and innovation policy scholars—along with creative writing and journalism professors, museum professionals, and editors of mainstream publications—to immerse themselves in the art and business of nonfiction storytelling.

Participants will attend workshops in Washington, DC and Tempe, Arizona, and will be guided for an entire year. Travel expenses to attend the workshops will be paid, along with an honorarium.

WHO SHOULD APPLY?

•                     WRITERS: Fiction and nonfiction writers, journalists, poets, documentary filmmakers, bloggers and other writers involved in alternative media, and museum communicators at the beginning stages of their careers.

•                     SCIENCE & INNOVATION POLICY SCHOLARS:  Researchers from academic, public or private organizations who are at the beginning stages of their careers.

Workshop Dates: October 3 - 7, 2012 (Washington, D.C.) & (tentatively) May 16 – 20, 2013 (Tempe, AZ)

HOW DO I APPLY? See complete instructions and details at www.thinkwritepublish.org<http://www.thinkwritepublish.org> orhttp://cspo.org/projects/think-write-publish/. Application is due June 15, 2012.


Sponsored by the Consortium of Science Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University and supported by a generous grant from the National Science Foundation.  Co-sponsored by The Creative Nonfiction Foundation and The Writer’s Center

NEH Summer Stipend Program - Internal Competition

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced the Summer Stipends program, which allows two nominees per institution.  The program is designed to support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.  Examples of work supported include articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archeological site reports, translations, editions or other scholarly resources.

Award:  $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing.

Water Resources Research Institute funding opportunities

Colleagues,

Those with an interest in water policy, coastal policy, and related fields will find these opportunities interesting (forwarded to us, as usual, by the always-helpful and supportive Carol Ashcraft).

Two Water Resources Research Institute funding opportunities, plus three others from federal and state sponsors, are listed below.

 

WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE

FY 2013-2014 research funding: Any topic of significance for North Carolina water resources. Successful pre-proposals must make a strong case for the proposed project’s relevance and importance to North Carolina, whether or not the exact project topic appears on the list of research priorities.  WRRI encourages collaboration among researchers from different institutions, and with federal, state, and local agencies. Additional consideration will be given to qualified pre-proposals from principal investigators in early-career status.

Pre-proposals are due June 1, 2012.  The RFP (plus a link to WRRI research priorities) can be found athttp://www.ncsu.edu/wrri/code/research/callforproposals.htm  . 

For more information:
Nicole Saladin Wilkinson
Coordinator for Research & Outreach
Water Resources Research Institute

nicole_wilkinson AT ncsu.edu
919-513-1216 

 

Fullbright Opportunities

Colleagues, please review the opportunities here and let our office know how we can help you apply for a Fulbright Scholar award. Not all the subjects listed in the note below (helpfully shared with us by Carol Ashcraft) are likely to interest all CHASS faculty, but there are some that are very relevant to your work.

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COUNCIL FOR THE INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OF SCHOLARS:

 

23 Fulbright Scholar opportunities, listed below. 

To see a program announcement, copy the program title and go to http://catalog.cies.org/index.aspx , paste the program title in the search form, and  conduct the search.

To see a list of all Core Fulbright Scholars programs, listed alphabetically by world region and by country, see http://catalog.cies.org/searchResults.aspx?ca=1 .  Disciplinary area and program title are included in this list.

1. Science and Technology
2. Math and Sciences at University of Trento (Junior Teaching/Research)
3. Applied Mathematics
4. International Trade
5. Macro-Economics or Monetary Economics
6. Trade and Investment
7. American University of Madaba
8. Business Administration, Economics, Information Sciences, Law or Philosophy
9. All Disciplines
10. Fulbright-Simone Cesaretti Foundation Award in Sustainable Development
11. Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chairs in Political Science and Public Policy
12. Hong Kong Studies
13. Engineering at University of Trento (Junior Teaching/Research)
14. Social Sciences and Humanities
15. Financial and Banking Studies
16. Business Administration/Economicsfac
17. Community College Faculty Award
18. Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Climate Change and Clean Energy
19. Peace Studies
20. TEFL, Business Administration, Economics, Sciences and Technology, Medicine, Journalism
21. Study of the United States
22. Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Commerce and Applied Economics, TEFL
23. Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chairs in Ethnic and Cultural Studies

NEW: Globalization and Environmental Change

This is a funding opportunity from the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center at the University of Maryland.

SESYNC THEME (2012T-2): Globalization and Environmental Change. SESYNC seeks proposals for activities that will illuminate linkages between globalization and natural resources and environmental change at any scale.  Globalization here refers to increased economic and social interaction among peoples via trade, migration and employment, or via new forms of communication.  Activities could focus on the natural resource implications of social, cultural, or economic phenomena related to globalization, they could focus on natural resources as a driver of globalization patterns and social change, or they could focus on the nature of linkages between social and environmental phenomena. We encourage research proposals related to the wide variety of globalization-environment linkages. These linkages include, but are not limited to:

    •    Natural resource scarcity driven by globalization.
    •    Policy intended to protect natural resources that acts as a barrier to globalization.
    •    Globalization triggered by environmental degradation.
    •    Globalization triggered by social change, with implications for the ways communities manage their indigenous natural resources.
    •    Diffusion of more environmentally friendly technologies and practices triggered by globalization.
    •    Natural resource implications of political alliances and social movements driven by globalization.
    •    Environmental risks created by changing – and accelerating – the movements of people and materials as part of globalization.


These examples are meant to convey a breadth of questions related to globalization’s impact on socio-environmental systems. Applications to undertake Pursuits at SESYNC are encouraged for projects by individuals, small teams, or a working group. One, or at most two, lead investigators must be identified.

See Pursuit Details and Application Guidelines.

Deadline Date:
Thursday, May 31, 2012

This is from SESYNC's website, http://www.sesync.org/new-globalization-and-environmental-change

US Dept of Education: Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships in Education Research

This may present a good opportunity for collaboration with colleagues in the College of Education. Let me know if you have an interest in this solicitation. This is a limited submission announcement, as noted below.

The U.S. Department of Education has announced the program, "Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships in Education Research."  The limit is one application per institution.  The program is designed to support partnerships between research institutions and state or local education agencies to identify an important educational issue for improving student achievement in a high priority area.  It supports the planning stage of a partnership proposal. 

 

Award:  Up to $400,000 over up to two years.

 

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