National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) seeks Research Collaborators

The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) seeks Research Collaborators (PhD required) who are interested in mentoring incoming SESYNC Postdoctoral Fellows and co-developing socio-environmental synthesis research projects with them. Collaborators must have demonstrated expertise in the social, natural, or computational sciences with sufficient research experience to provide intellectual mentoring to Postdoctoral Fellows, and ideas suitable for research collaborations using synthesis methods (data integration, quantitative or qualitative analysis, modeling, etc.). We welcome Collaborators from universities, NGOs, government agencies, and other research institutions.

Additional details are at http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/postdoc-collab

Colleagues, I received this information from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). There are opportunities here from the American Educational Research Association for PhD students, post-docs, and faculty in their area of interest. Please follow the links for more information.

AERA Dissertation Grants. AERA provides dissertation support for advanced doctoral students to undertake doctoral dissertations using data from the large-scale national or international data sets supported by the NCES, NSF, and/or other federal agencies. The selection process is competitive. AERA Dissertation Grants are awarded for one-year for an amount of up to $20,000. The next application deadline is Friday, January 24, 2014.

AERA Research Grants. AERA provides small grants for faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral-level scholars to undertake quantitative research using data from the large-scale national or international data sets supported by the NCES, NSF, and/or other federal agencies. The selection process is competitive. AERA Research Grants are awarded for one or two years, for an amount of up to $35,000. The next application deadline is Friday, January 24, 2014.

Institute on Statistical Analysis: Causal Analysis Using International Data. The AERA Grants Program is accepting proposals to attend the Institute on Statistical Analysis: Causal Analysis Using International Data to be held in Washington, DC May 6-9, 2014. The focus of the 2014 Institute will be on inferring causality and the methodologies available to support causal inferences using data from TIMSS and PISA. Advanced doctoral students and recent doctorates are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants must have completed at least one year of statistics courses at the doctoral level and have familiarity with multiple regression methods. The next application deadline is Monday, February 10, 2014.

internationalization Seed Grant Request for Proposals (Excellent source for building international programs!)

The 2014-2015 Seed Grant Request for Proposals is now available.  The RFP can also be accessed on the following website: http://oia.ncsu.edu/internationalization-seed-grants

The aim of the Internationalization Seed Grant program is to provide funds up to $5,000 to faculty/staff in order to improve the range of international partnerships at NC State.  The Seed Grant process depends on your help for success.  Please encourage your colleagues to submit proposals that foster meaningful, collaborative, global scholarship or engagement by the February 3rd, 2014 deadline. 

Dear Colleague Letter: SaTC EAGERs Enabling New Collaborations Between Computer and Social Scientists

Colleagues,

I am working with the Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development (ORIED) to put together a meeting to discuss this very interesting opportunity for collaborations between social scientists and computer scientists. The NSF's EAGER mechanism is designed to fund "high risk, high payoff" projects that, among other things, "engage novel disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives." Collaborations between social scientists and computer scientists are bearing significant fruit throughout academe, and NCSU is well positioned to contribute to this emerging research.

ORIED, working with me, will convene a "getting to know you" and "match-making" meeting in mid-January to facilitate forming teams that will write two-page statements of interest to the NSF, as described in the Dear Colleague letter that follows. But if you are already collaborating with computer scientists on projects of interest to NSF, please feel free to start forming teams and let me know if you have done so, so that CHASS and ORIED can help with the process. (For what it's worth, I know the Division Director for SES in the SBE directorate, so can put you in touch if that helps.)

The direct link to the Dear Colleague letter is here; the full letter follows after the jump.

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14016/nsf14016.jsp

Global Innovation Initiative: Deadline December 16, 2013

While this announcement is focused on STEM, in many cases these projects won't succeed without a humanist or social scientist. If you are working on an interdisciplinary project that looks like a good fit, I encourage you to apply.

The N.C. State Office of International Affairs is sharing news of the following multilateral collaborative research opportunity, the "Global Innovation Initiative." 

The Global Innovation Initiative (GII), a joint effort of the United States and the United Kingdom, requests proposals for multilateral research collaboration among universities in the U.S. the U.K. and certain other designated countries, including Brazil, China, India and Indonesia.

GII, funded by the U.S. Department of State, U.K. Department of Business, Innovation and Skills and the British Council, will provide grants of up to $250,000 (£150,000) to university partnerships focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) issues of worldwide significance in the following four areas: 

Energy, climate change and the environment; 

Agriculture, food security and water; 

Public health and well-being; and 

Urbanization.

Proposal due date: December 16, 2013 at 9 a.m. Please visit www.global-innovation-initiative.org for more information.

REPOST: DEADLINE EXTENDED: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27: CHASS Scholarship and Research Award (SRA) Fiscal Year 2013-2014

The Office for Research and Engagement is pleased to announce the call for proposals for the CHASS Scholarship and Research Award for 2013-14.

Update: 11/20/2013 -- We are extended the deadline to November 27, 2013--the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. 

The call for proposals and links to the cover sheet and the short vita form are at http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/research/resources/funding/scholarly.php

Please note that the SRA program has changed to promote greater collaboration leading to funded research. There are now two types of proposals that may be submitted.

In Type 1 proposals, the College will fund up to three research groups, each of which will form a research interest group, collaborative team, or other structure, to begin the process of developing a substantive and sustainable research program that will become an ongoing area of strength in CHASS. The primary product funded by the SRA Type 1 award will be an application to an external funding organization, such as a foundation or government agency. We anticipate funding each group for approximately $6,000, but please do not treat this as a hard limit—we will consider proposals that are slightly larger than this target amount.

The "traditional" SRA proposals are now called Type 2 proposals. Under this program, individual CHASS faculty may apply for an SRA that provides support for expenses related to research, scholarship, and scholarship on teaching and learning. We do prefer to fund projects that will yield external funding, such as grants and fellowships. 

Please share this with your colleagues across CHASS, and direct any questions to me at tabirkla@ncsu.edu. 

Global Innovation Initiative: Call for Proposals

The N.C. State Office of International Affairs is sharing news of the following multilateral collaborative research opportunity, the "Global Innovation Initiative." 

The Global Innovation Initiative (GII), a joint effort of the United States and the United Kingdom, requests proposals for multilateral research collaboration among universities in the U.S. the U.K. and certain other designated countries, including Brazil, China, India and Indonesia.

GII, funded by the U.S. Department of State, U.K. Department of Business, Innovation and Skills and the British Council, will provide grants of up to $250,000 (£150,000) to university partnerships focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) issues of worldwide significance in the following four areas: 

Energy, climate change and the environment; 

Agriculture, food security and water; 

Public health and well-being; and 

Urbanization.

Proposal due date: December 16, 2013 at 9 a.m. Please visit www.global-innovation-initiative.org for more information.

CHASS “Lightning Rod” Event for 2014

Call For Proposals

Proposals Due December 9, 2013

Decisions made December 13, 2013

CHASS Interdisciplinary Studies and the CHASS Office for Research invite proposals to host a major interdisciplinary scholarly event on behalf of the College in the Spring of 2014. We are calling these activities “lightning rod” events—that is, events that gain a lot of attention on campus and throughout the region. The event will be a signature event in CHASS, and will be the beginning, not the end, of a process designed to promote externally funded and recognized scholarship in the College.

We invite proposals for a speaker, colloquium, or other public event or series of events over a few days that would attract a broad interdisciplinary audience, both within and outside CHASS and even outside NCSU. The topics are wide open, but should speak to CHASS strategic interests and areas of scholarly distinction.

We also invite collaborative efforts with other colleges or universities.

The proposal should include the title of the event, a budget, including costs for refreshments, honoraria and travel for speakers, and any costs associated with the venue. The CHASS portion of the budget will not exceed $20,000.  It should also include a narrative making the case for why the event is important and will attract attention across many disciplines, and will also spark future scholarly activity among CHASS faculty. Include a general agenda of activities to be undertaken, such as a public speaker, smaller symposia, or similar events. Better proposals will specify the speaker or speakers you plan to invite. It would be ideal for the speaker to agree in principle to join your event, pending notification of funding.  The proposal should not exceed five pages, including the budget.

Competitive proposals will be those that plan for an ongoing program of scholarship that is truly interdisciplinary and has a strong likelihood of attracting outside resources. Such proposals will be very similar to the Type 1 SRA proposals solicited at http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/research/documents/CHASS_SRA_2013-2014_call_for_proposals.pdf

The CHASS Research Office will provide support for financial aspects of the event, such as paying bills. The department or departments proposing the event will retain project management responsibilities. Hourly pay for graduate or undergraduate assistants to help plan and manage the event will be an acceptable budget item.

Please submit your proposals, preferably as a PDF document, to Tom Birkland at tabirkla@ncsu.edu or Helga Braunbeck at helga_braunbeck@ncsu.edu by midnight on December 9. The Dean will review the proposals, with advice from Helga and Tom. We look forward to your proposal!

Arts and Audiences--North Carolina Arts Council

Arts and Audiences

The Arts Council believes that arts organizations should provide programs of high quality and facilitate ways for participants and audiences to find personal meaning in these activities. The Arts and Audiences program underscores the importance of striking a balance between these two principles in order for all kinds of arts organizations to remain relevant and vital in their communities.

Description

This category provides funds to organizations to increase and enhance participation in the arts by linking the content of art programs they wish to produce with the interests and experiences of the audiences they wish to engage. Grant funds will be awarded to support strong artistic programs with clear audience and participation goals.

Projects may be designed to:

• Give your current audience a deeper experience with and connection to your programs
• Build relationships with new audiences whom you want to serve
• Increase the numbers of people involved in your programs

For more details, visit the website: http://ncarts.org/grants/grants-for-organizations/arts-and-audiences/

The NC Arts Council funds a wide range of arts projects, including, of interest to CHASS scholars, projects in Film and in Literary Arts. 

The Department of Energy (DOE) Scholars Program Summer 2014.

Colleagues,

While this program is primarily aimed at STEM scholars, there are excellent opportunities here for students and post-docs in the social sciences as well.

The Department of Energy (DOE) Scholars Program is now accepting applications for Summer 2014.

The DOE Scholars Program offers unique opportunities that introduce students or post-graduates to the agency’s mission and operations. Participants in the DOE Scholars Program gain a competitive edge as they apply their education, talent and skills in a variety of scientific research settings within the DOE complex. Appointments are available in a variety of disciplines at participating DOE facilities nationwide.

Being selected as a DOE Scholar offers the following benefits:

• Career possibilities with the nation’s leading sponsor for scientific research
• Opportunities to learn from top scientists and subject matter experts
• Stipends of up to $650 per week (depending on academic status)
• Travel arrangements to and from appointment site

DEADLINE CHANGED: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27: CHASS Scholarship and Research Award (SRA) Fiscal Year 2013-2014

The Office for Research and Engagement is pleased to announce the call for proposals for the CHASS Scholarship and Research Award for 2013-14.

Update: 11/20/2013 -- We are extended the deadline to November 27, 2013--the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. 

The call for proposals and links to the cover sheet and the short vita form are at http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/research/resources/funding/scholarly.php

Please note that the SRA program has changed to promote greater collaboration leading to funded research. There are now two types of proposals that may be submitted.

In Type 1 proposals, the College will fund up to three research groups, each of which will form a research interest group, collaborative team, or other structure, to begin the process of developing a substantive and sustainable research program that will become an ongoing area of strength in CHASS. The primary product funded by the SRA Type 1 award will be an application to an external funding organization, such as a foundation or government agency. We anticipate funding each group for approximately $6,000, but please do not treat this as a hard limit—we will consider proposals that are slightly larger than this target amount.

The "traditional" SRA proposals are now called Type 2 proposals. Under this program, individual CHASS faculty may apply for an SRA that provides support for expenses related to research, scholarship, and scholarship on teaching and learning. We do prefer to fund projects that will yield external funding, such as grants and fellowships. 

Please share this with your colleagues across CHASS, and direct any questions to me at tabirkla@ncsu.edu. 

November 5, Hunt Library--John Wall's Virtual Paul's Cross Project. Please join us!

I am very pleased to share with you this note from John Wall (English) on the eagerly anticipated installation of his Virtual Paul's Cross Project in Hunt Library. This interdisciplinary project provides participants with the opportunity to experience a lecture by John Donne in a recreation of the outdoor space at the pre-London Fire St. Paul's Cathedral. It's a truly remarkable project, and I urge you to join John and his colleagues on November 5. 

Folks, plans are set for opening the Installation of my Virtual Paul's Cross Project in the Hunt Library on November 5th, 2013. 

There will be two events, a formal opening at 10 am and a symposium at 2:00 pm, all in the Teaching and Visualization Lab of Hunt Library.

Please spread the word. I would be especially grateful for help getting an audience to the Symposium. We have guest speakers and it would be good to have students and colleagues in attendance.

 

Speakers include John Schofield, archaeologist and architectural historian at St Paul's Cathedral in London, also our own Tom Barrie (CoD), our colleague Anne MacNeil (UNC), and Carol Symes (History, Theatre, and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois) and Heather Minor (History of Architecture, University of Illinois). 

Additional information is available here: http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/installation-hunt-library/

or here: http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/symposium/

Please help me spread the word! Hope to see you there. We will show off the installation and have much talk about DH.

JNW

Pilot Projects: NCSU Center for Human Health and the Environment

Colleagues, this is an announcement about a pilot research project from NC State's CHHE.  For more information, contact Jane Hoppins at the address in the signature. Some of you may be interested in the human dimensions of this research; I can particularly see social scientists contributing to computational approaches. These often fail if assumptions about human behavior are wrong. I imagine that this pilot would be an interdisciplinary project, and I encourage you to partner with colleagues across campus. 

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Dear Colleagues,

The NC State University Center for Human Heath and the Environment (CHHE) is pleased to announce its request for pilot project proposals for 2013.Applications will be due on November 15, 2013.  Please make your research faculty aware of this opportunity.  We are hoping for proposals from across the NCSU campus.

 The CHHE aims to enhance and integrate basic and translational research from molecules to cells to animal models to human populations using cutting-edge technologies and computational approaches to understand the impacts of environmental exposures/factors on human health. Individual awards will range upwards to $25,000 for one year. The CHHE expects to fund four to five proposals. To learn more go to chhe.research.ncsu.edu.  

This Pilot Project Program has been made possible by the contribution of funds from the Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation & Economic Development and the Provost.

 

Thanks.

Jane Hoppin, ScD

Deputy Director, Center for Human Health and the Environment

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

CB 7633 

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC

919-515-2918 (office)

jahoppin@ncsu.edu

Welcome, again, to the CHASS Research and Engagement Blog

With the start of a new academic year, I'm writing to welcome you to the CHASS Research and Engagement blog. 

I've started this in 2011 blog as a way to share all sorts of opportunities with the CHASS and NCSU research community, and to to share the good news of our accomplishments of our remarkable faculty and students. Since then, I've done a better job on sharing opportunities than with sharing good news, so this year I will be redoubling efforts to share our colleagues accomplishments as well as to share funding opportunities and other news related to research and scholarship in CHASS and at NCSU.

I would very much like this to be a place where we can share information. With that in mind, if you have any news, announcements, or other information related to our, mission, I'd very much like to hear from you. Please send ideas, comments, and suggestions to me at tabirkla@ncsu.edu.And, of course, if you would like to see more of some sort of information, please provide me with your suggestions.
Many thanks for your continued efforts and support. The CHASS Research and Engagement office looks forward to supporting you in your engagement and scholarship.

Tom Birkland

Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Pre-Application

Colleagues,

Carol Ashcraft has brought this opportunity to my attention. This program is managed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which describes this program as follows:

The Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program (Program) supports metropolitan and multijurisdictional planning efforts that integrate housing, land use, economic and workforce development, transportation, and infrastructure investments in a manner that empowers jurisdictions to consider the interdependent challenges of: (1) economic competitiveness and revitalization; (2) social equity, inclusion, and access to opportunity; (3) energy use and climate change; and (4) public health and environmental impact. The Program places a priority on investing in partnerships, including nontraditional partnerships (e.g., arts and culture, recreation, public health, food systems, regional planning agencies and public education entities) that translate the Livability Principles (Section I.C.1) into strategies that direct long-term development and reinvestment, demonstrate a commitment to addressing issues of regional significance, use data to set and monitor progress toward performance goals, and engage stakeholders and residents in meaningful decision-making roles.

This funding opportunity is currently dormant--no new applications are, as far as I know, being accepted, and given the federal budget situation, we may not know for a while what will come of this. But Carol and I would like to alert you to the possibility that this may come open if a FY 2014 budget is, eventually, passed. We will update you on this, but, in the meanwhile, I think you have time to seek out and engage interested partners in this work to be ready in case this is revived.

The full link to this opportunity is at http://www.grants.gov/custom/viewOppDetails.jsp?oppId=109013 

Call for Applications: Wilson Fellows

Research and Innovation Seed Funding (RISF) program

The University's Research Development Office is now accepting proposals for the Fall 2013 Research and Innovation Seed Funding (RISF) program.  RISF was designed to assist NC State researchers in developing innovative interdisciplinary programs that have strong potential for significant future support from government agencies, corporations, industrial consortia, or foundations.  Proposals should be high risk/high gain and should describe how the project will result in new areas of research for NCSU.

The request for proposals for the Fall 2013 solicitation is attached and can be foundat go.ncsu.edu/RISF. 

Please note that this program is for all disciplines, and CHASS faculty have, in the past, won RISF awards. Please contact me if you have any questions.

Research 101 Workshop Announcement

Colleagues, this event has been postponed, and we regret any inconvenience.

Getty Scholars Grants for Humanities Scholars, Artists, and Writers

This appears to be an excellent opportunity for humanities scholars! Please let me know if you plan to apply.

Social science opportunity! NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES) Fellows

This program is designed to promote interdisciplinary research among junior faculty, and is directly applicable to the social sciences. Indeed, the announcement appears to exclude engineering proposals from consideration for this round, although it encourages interdisciplinary approaches.

The full solicitation is at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13595/nsf13595.htm

Synopsis of Program:

Through the SEES Fellows Program, NSF seeks to advance science, engineering, and education to inform the societal actions needed for environmental and economic sustainability and human well-being while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. The Program's emphasis is to facilitate investigations that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries and address issues of sustainability through a systems approach, building bridges between academic inquiry, economic growth, and societal needs. The Fellow's proposed investigation must be interdisciplinary and allow him/her to obtain research experiences beyond his/her current core disciplinary expertise. Fellows are required to develop a research partnership(s) that will advance and broaden the impact/scope of the proposed research, and present a plan for their own professional development in the area of sustainability science and engineering. Proposals with a primary focus on topics covered by the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) are considered "out of scope" for this revised solicitation; however, proposals may include such topics as a secondary (or tertiary) focus.