Limited Submission: NSF Critical Zone Observatories Program

The National Science Foundation has announced the Critical Zone Observatories program, which is limited to one lead proposal per institution.  The program is designed to "establish a networked set of Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs) that will address pressing interdisciplinary scientific questions concerning geological, physical, chemical, and biological processes and their couplings that govern critical zone system dynamics."

 

Award:  $5 million over five years

 

Important dates:

 

Mandatory notification of interest in applying:  Due by 5 p.m. July 26, 2012 to carol_ashcraft@ncsu.edu .  Include a working title or a brief description of the proposed project, and identify the NC State principal investigators.

 

Internal preproposal submission:  Due by 5 p.m. November 19, 2012 to carol_ashcraft@ncsu.edu.  Internal guidelines are available at http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/2012/07/czo/ . 

 

Estimated internal review completion:  November 30, 2012

 

NSF proposal deadline:  February 5, 2013

 

For more information and a link to the program solicitation, see http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/2012/07/czo/ . 

Limited Submission: NIH Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13)

The National Institutes of Health's next deadline for the Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13) is October 17, 2012.  The program is designed to support health-disparities-related meetings, workshops and symposia to bring together partnerships that will use Community-Based Participatory Research to address health disparities.  Focus areas include obesity (child, adolescent or adult), techniques for outreach and information dissemination, violence prevention and medical topics such as fibroid tumors and HIV/AIDS prevention.  The limit is one application per institution.

 

Award:  Up to $30,000 per year for up to three years

 

Important dates

 

Mandatory notification of interest in applying:  Due by 5 p.m. July 19, 2012 tocarol_ashcraft@ncsu.edu .  Please provide a prospective topic or focus area for the proposed conference, and identify the individual(s) who will provide the expertise in Community-Based Participatory Research.

 

Internal preproposal submission:  Due by 5 p.m. August 7, 2012 tocarol_ashcraft@ncsu.edu .  For internal guidelines, see http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/2012/07/acpcs-2/.  For examples of the kind of projects funded previously, see the last paragraph below.

 

Estimated internal review completion:  August 10, 2012

 

NIH application deadline:  October 17, 2012

 

For information about preparing a competitive application for this program, you can view abstracts of currently funded projects at http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm .  On the right column in the FOA number box, insert PAR-09-092 .  Click on the "submit" button at the bottom of the page.  When the results of 11 funded projects comes up, click on the abstracts you want to study.

Call for applicants: John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellows

Colleagues, Carol Ashcraft passed this along, and I hope you or someone you know is interested in the Guggenheim program. As you'll see, Carol urges you to notify her if you apply, but it is an open-submission program. Let the CHASS Research Office know if we can help in any way.

Five Triangle area residents won Guggenheim Fellowships recently, attracting news coverage that provides additional information about the kind of work Guggenheim Foundation funds through its awards.  All five Triangle area Guggenheim Fellows are in the arts, humanities and social sciences, but faculty in the natural sciences are also eligible. 

 

The next application deadline is September 15, 2012.  To apply when the Guggenheim online application system opens in July, seehttp://www.gf.org/applicants/how-to-apply/ .  Faculty are requested to inform carol_ashcraft@ncsu.edu about their interest in this program; however, it is open submission and all interested faculty may submit applications.

 

To learn more about our Triangle area Fellows, see

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/15/2001511/five-with-triangle-ties-named.html

 

Our current NC State Guggenheim Fellows are:

Professor of English John Balaban, 2003 (Asian Studies) and

Professor of History Anthony J. LaVopa, 2007 (History)

Two Open Positions in the Institute for Nonprofits

Colleagues, I received this note from Mary Tschirhart. Please share broadly with your colleagues and especially current and former students who may be interested in these open positions. Thanks!

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Please help spread the word.  The Institute for Nonprofits is looking for two individuals to join our team.

We have an opening for Managing Editor of the Philanthropy Journal.  The Journal's mission is to help nonprofits learn, lead, and grow, and build their capacity to help people and places in need.  The responsibilities of the position are to: Oversee creation and production of content for the Philanthropy Journal website, newsletters, workshops, webinars, reports, and collaborative projects; solicit and work with writers, graphic designers, and video producers to develop content; provide editing; and write articles, reports, blog, and social media items.  Additional responsibilities include: Manage budgets for payments to content creators; contribute to development and implementation of Journal business and marketing strategy; develop collaborative partnerships; ensure a portfolio of financially viable and mission-consistent products and services; support relationships with Institute’s prospective and current advertisers and donors; prepare grant proposals and Journal business plan; serve as the Philanthropy Journal's "public face" including speaking at conferences and other events; coordinate appropriate technologies for delivery of products and services; and analyze Journal’s current and prospective users as part of strategy development.  The position number is 00102643 and a more complete description can be found at https://jobs.ncsu.edu/hr/postings/8543.  

We also are looking for a Communication Manager for the Institute (this position will be in the university system soon as a Creative and Marketing Manager).  The person in this position will be responsible for managing the Institute's website, including the website of the Philanthropy Journal. In addition this person will prepare the Journal's weekly e-newsletter and other communication vehicles.  

The individuals filling these positions will join a staff dedicated to building capacity in the nonprofit sector through research, education, and community partnerships.   The Institute is a bridge between NC State University and community-serving organizations. It is a center of expertise, generator of knowledge, and host of a collaborative and diverse community of scholars. In December, the Institute will be moving to the Hunt Library being built on Centennial campus.  Its new location will provide even more opportunity to work with community members on initiatives to strengthen nonprofit organizations.       
  
Please encourage applications for our positions.  

Thanks, Mary  

Outstanding Opportunity for Junior Faculty! Library of Congress Kluge Fellowship

Kluge Fellowships

• Research in the humanities and social sciences, especially interdisciplinary, cross-cultural or multilingual
• Open to scholars worldwide with a Ph.D. or other terminal advanced degree conferred within seven years of the July 15 deadline
• Stipend: $4,200 per month (up to 12 months)

The Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to conduct research in the John W. Kluge Center using the Library of Congress collections and resources for a period of up to eleven months. Established in 2000 through an endowment of $60 million from John W. Kluge, the Center is located in the splendid Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. The Kluge Center furnishes attractive work and discussion space for Kluge Chair holders, for distinguished visiting scholars, and for post-doctoral Fellows supported by other private foundation gifts. Residents have easy access to the Library's specialized staff and to the intellectual community of Washington.

The Kluge Center especially encourages humanistic and social science research that makes use of the Library's large and varied collections. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, or multi-lingual research is particularly welcome. Among the collections available to researchers are the world's largest law library and outstanding multi-lingual collections of books and periodicals. Deep special collections of manuscripts, maps, music, films, recorded sound, prints and photographs are also available. Further information about the Library's collections can be found on the Library's website: http://www.loc.gov/rr/.

Applicant Eligibility

Scholars who have received a terminal advanced degree within the past seven years in the humanities, social sciences or in a professional field such as architecture or law are eligible. Exceptions may be made for individuals without continuous academic careers. Applicants may be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals. Upon selection, and in accordance with relevant visa regulations, foreign nationals will be assisted in obtaining the appropriate visa. To meet the minimum eligibility requirements, the degree must be formally awarded by the deadline date.

Innovation in Archives and Documentary Editing

Innovation in Archives and Documentary Editing

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), a part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), supports projects that promote the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture.

The following grant application information is for Innovation in Archives and Documentary Editing.

Funding Opportunity Number:   INNOVATION-201210

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number:   89.003
        Draft Deadline (optional):   August 1, 2012
        Final Deadline:   October 4, 2012

NHPRC support begins no earlier than July 1, 2013.

More details are available at http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/innovation.html

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. 

Important dates: 
 

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.

 

Important dates: 

Joint EPA/NCSU Poster Session, May 15

Colleagues, I received the announcement that follows, and believe that many CHASS researchers will find this interesting. I intend to attend this session; please let me know if you are presenting here, and with whom you are collaborating, of if you are going to attend out of your own curiosity.

To be clear, EPA in this context means Environmental Protection Agency (at first glance, I thought this was something to do with personnel).

Details after the jump.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

ear Colleagues:

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting innovators to apply for two grant opportunities:

1. Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions, is now accepting grant proposals for its latest application round. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit companies.

Education Technology Funding Opportunity

Program Announcement: Education Technology CFDA 84.305A

Program Officer:
Dr. Jonathan Levy
Jonathan.Levy@ed.gov
(202) 219-2096

Purpose

The Education Technology topic supports research on education technology tools that are designed to provide or support instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, or the sciences (including pre-reading, pre-writing, early mathematics, and early science), to improve study skills, or to provide professional development for teachers related to instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, or the sciences. The long-term outcome of this research will be an array of education technology tools that have been documented to be effective for improving student reading, writing, mathematics, and science achievement.

Additional information is available at http://ies.ed.gov/funding/ncer_rfas/edtech.asp

Encouraging Civic Progress from the Frye Foundation

Researchers who study urban redevelopment may find the Frey Foundation's programs interesting.

If you are interested in pursuing research funding from Frey or any other nongovernmental foundation, please share you plans with me or with Missy Seate before applying. If necessary, we would like to work with you and with our CHASS development officers to ensure that we coordinate our relationships with private funders, and ensure that funds are properly accounted for.

The Frey Foundation describes its program as follows (from http://www.freyfdn.org/programs/civic-progress-programs ):

Encouraging Civic Progress

Communities whose downtown and older neighborhoods are deteriorating are communities in jeopardy. For this reason the Frey Foundation supports projects that encourage urban revitalization and smart growth. Our goal is to foster civic action to improve the livability of existing urban centers and towns in our target communities of western Michigan.

Our grantmaking priorities include:

• Building strong and attractive city centers and revitalized neighborhoods
• Fostering public/private partnerships that further city center revitalization
• Encouraging incentives for urban revitalization through state and local public policy
• Promoting equitable public financing across cities, suburbs and rural areas

View the promising projects in this program area, or a complete list of recent grants.

Call for Proposals: Dupont Summit on Science, Technology and Environmental Policy

Colleagues, I received this in the email last week. PSO is a very interesting--and very interdisciplinary--organization. You and your students may find this opportunity interesting.

Call for Proposals: Dupont Summit on Science, Technology and Environmental Policy

The Policy Studies Organization (PSO) invites you to submit a proposal for the 2012 Dupont Summit focused on science, technology and environmental policy issues. The Summit will be held at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC on Friday, December 7, 2012. The purpose of the conference is to promote dialogue about current policy concerns and to provide a civil space for discussion across the political spectrum.  The format will include panel discussions along with some individual presentations.  You are welcomed to submit a topic proposal or a proposal that includes others beside yourself for a panel.