A new way to apply for CHASS research support: the CHASS Funding Request Form

The CHASS research office is pleased to announce that we have a new system for taking in funding requests. On the CHASS Research Blog you will see, under pages, a link to "CHASS Funding Request Form." This form is now the primary method faculty will use to apply for CHASS support for research and engagement activities. This new system will help us to match the different resources we have with the research needs of the college's faculty.

You can also access the form directly at http://chassresearch.blogspot.com/p/chass-funding-request-form.html

The form is straightforward and easy to use, and many of the parts can be completed using materials you've already written--you need only cut and paste from existing documents, as needed. If you are writing new text, you may want to write in your word processor first, and then paste the text into the appropriate form. This will allow you to more readily save your work and run spelling and grammar checks.

Important things you should know:

1. You cannot use the form unless you are logged into your NCSU Gmail--this login gives you access to all the features of Google documents, including forms. If you are not logged in when you try to fill in the form, open a new browser tab or window, log in, and then refresh the screen.

2. When completing the form, please indicate in the appropriate place that you would like to have a copy of your entries emailed to you. You should then be able to use that copy to share with your department head, who should be informed of your proposal. We will, in any case, seek your department chair's review of your request, unless, of course, we have already heard from your chair regarding the request.

3. We generally ask that all proposers seek some cost sharing from their departments. The target figure is about 25% departmental cost sharing, but this may be adjusted upward or downward as financial conditions warrant. In short, this is not a hard and fast number.

Please share this information broadly with your colleagues. We look forward to hearing from you.

EPA-RTP & NCSU Collaboration Forum on Research and Educational Opportunities

I received this notice today. Many CHASS faculty are interested in research opportunities at EPA. If you are among them, and want to learn of research opportunities, please note that the EPA is hosting faculty visitors at its RTP location on Thursday, September 29 from 9:00am - 12:00pm. We are limited to only 30 participants so have interested faculty register today at http://bit.ly/EPA-RTPforum

Research areas for collaborative research include air quality, impact of pollutants on public health and the environment, human and environmental risk management and assessment, human health and ecological exposure, computational toxicology, Homeland Security, and student training opportunities.

Please share this broadly with your colleagues.

New COS Pivot research funding tool now at NC State

Carol Ashcraft shared this note with the NCSU funding listserv. I realize that Community of Science (COS) is often not that useful for social scientists and humanists, but it has become much more useful in the past four years, and I have found interesting opportunities there, many of which I share with you on this blog. So taking this new tool for a test drive might be a good idea. Here's Carol's note, after the jump:

News and Opportunities from the Social Science Research Council

The SSRC has posted its latest council update. It contains important news and opportunities for social scientists, including open competitions for these SSRC programs:

• Training Awards in Higher Education and Social Inequality in Egypt (Deadline: July 6)
• Workshop on Youth and Social Stability in Eurasia(August 15)
• Grants for Collaborative Research on Environment and Health in China (August 22),
• Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (August 31)
• Abe Fellowship (September 1)
• Fellowship for Journalists (September 15)
• Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) Faculty Field Competition (September 30). 

News from the National Humanities Alliance

As we all know, funding for the humanities is taking a beating in the federal budget. The latest news from the National Humanities Center has details.

But there is some good news in their latest news, in the form of Opportunities for Humanities Funding. Many of these opportunities will be attractive to humanities faculty

Funding: NSF Law and Social Science Program

Here is an announcement from the National Science Foundation on application deadlines for this program. This is an excellent interdisciplinary program for anyone working on law and social science in any discipline.

http://fundingopps.cos.com/alerts/4346