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Focus Groups and/or Town Meetings (two solicitations) Agency: Maryland Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH), Family Health Administration is the recipient and administrator of the Federal Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant. Block grant funds are to be used to improve the health of mothers, pregnant women, infants, children and adolescents. Title V legislation requires states to conduct a comprehensive statewide needs assessment every five years to identify the need for preventive and primary care services for pregnant women, mothers and infants, children, and adolescents as well as services for children with special health care needs (CSHCN). The next needs assessment report is due in July 2005. To prepare for this submission, DHMH plans to use a multitude of methodologies (e.g., data analysis, interviews, focus groups) to determine the health status, unmet health needs and emerging health issues of children and adolescents in Maryland. In support of this, DHMH has issued two solicitations: Focus Groups and/or Town Meetings with Providers of Services to Adolescents (Ages 12 to 19): DHMH seeks an organization to conduct 6-8 focus groups, surveys, and/or town meetings with providers of services to adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 living in Maryland. The successful bidder shall collect information from across the State in the following five regions: Western Maryland (Garrett, Allegany, Washington, and Frederick Counties), Metropolitan Baltimore (Baltimore City, Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Carroll, Howard, and Harford Counties), Metropolitan Washington DC (Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties), Upper Eastern Shore (Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s, and Talbot counties), and Southern Maryland (Calvert, Charles, and Saint Mary’s Counties). The purpose is to solicit providers’ views on the health needs and issues of concern to adolescents and their families. Following the presentation of a very brief overview of Maternal and Child Health programs in Maryland and the Title V Block Grant, the successful bidder shall focus discussions on issues such as:
The successful bidder shall ensure that providers in rural, urban, and suburban areas are represented in the distribution of focus groups, surveys, and/or town meetings across the 5 regions. The bidder shall 1) suggest the most advantageous method(s) for determining the distribution of focus groups across regions and populations, 2) suggest the most advantageous method(s) to providers to participate, 3) conduct and moderate provider groups, and 4) prepare a final report. The final report must document 1) the methodologies selected, 2) the participant selection process, 3) summary of discussion and/or findings, and 4) recommendations for improving health and addressing needs. The full solicitation is available at Focus Groups and/or Town Meetings with Adolescents (ages 12 to 19) and Parents of Adolescents DHMH seeks an organization to conduct 6-8 focus groups, surveys, and/or town meetings with adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 and with parents of adolescents between the ages of 12-19 living in Maryland. The successful bidder shall collect information from across the State in the following five regions: Western Maryland (Garrett, Allegany, Washington, and Frederick Counties), Metropolitan Baltimore (Baltimore City, Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Carroll, Howard, and Harford Counties), Metropolitan Washington DC (Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties), Upper Eastern Shore (Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, and Talbot counties), and Southern Maryland (Calvert, Charles, and Saint Mary's Counties). The purpose is to solicit community views on the health needs and issues of concern to adolescents and their parents. Following the presentation of a very brief overview of MCH programs in Maryland and the Title V Block Grant, the bidder shall focus discussions on issues such as:
The full solicitation is available at URL: http://www.dhmh.state.md.us/procumnt/procopps.html#Current%20Procurement%20Opportunities (DHMH Main Procurement Page) Short-Term Research Fellowships Agency: Winterthur Located near Wilmington, Delaware, Winterthur is a center for the interdisciplinary study of America’s artistic, cultural, social and intellectual past, including research in the library’s holdings on preindustrial crafts, Shaker history, and the fine and decorative arts. It is also a center for the study of consumerism, foodways, the history of everyday life, advertising, women’s lives, travel and tourism, and historical memory. Its holdings include materials from the 17th century through 1930, and its museum collections contain domestic artifacts and works of art made or used in America to 1860. The short-term residential fellowships for scholars pursuing independent work in the library or museum collections generally fund one month of study at $1,500 per month. Fellows participate in on-site seminars and programs, and live in a furnished communal residence on the Winterthur estate. Agency: Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS -- University
of Maryland) The Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program (MIPS) promotes the development and commercialization of products and processes through industry/university research partnerships. MIPS provides matching funds to help Maryland companies pay for the research. Projects are initiated by the companies to meet their own research and development goals. MIPS matching grants are awarded on a competitive basis for projects based on proposals submitted jointly by Maryland companies and researchers from any of the 13 University System of Maryland institutions. The maximum MIPS award for any single project is $100,000 per year for large and small companies and $70,000 for start-up firms. The research may be in engineering, computer science, physical sciences, or life sciences. MIPS also supports projects designed to help a company plan and develop industrial training programs for its employees. Faculty whose research might be of interest to MIPS and who would like to be matched with companies wishing to participate in a MIPS project should contact the MIPS office by telephone at (301) 405-3891 or via e-mail at mips@umail.umd.edu NOTE: This program was first announced in the August 23 issue of the Alive Line; since the deadline is approaching, it is being repeated this week. Opportunity for Faculty Members in the Humanities and Social Sciences Eurasia Title VIII Fellowships - Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Agency: Social Science Research Council The Eurasia program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) offers fellowships at the postdoctoral level for research, writing, and curriculum development on or related to any of the New States of Eurasia, the Soviet Union, and/or the Russian Empire. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are intended to provide recent Ph.D. recipients and junior faculty with support to focus on significantly revising or re-writing an existing project or on designing a new project. These awards of up to $20,000 are designated for junior faculty and independent scholars who are within the first five years of having received their Ph.D. (who have no more than three years experience in a tenure-track position) and who require release time from teaching and administrative duties for the completion of on-going projects, for substantive retooling and/or for preliminary research on new research agendas. The awards are to be used to promote research and/or publication records and to further the recipient’s academic career. These awards are not designed as traditional long-term field-research fellowships, although they allow for research to be undertaken. Eligible applicants must be from a relevant field in a social science or humanities discipline, either at an accredited university or working as an independent scholar in the United States. In most cases, scholars would use approximately $15,000 to release themselves from teaching and administrative obligations in their departments (or as a living stipend for independent scholars) and $5,000 for research expenses. All funds must be expended within no more than 18-24 months of receiving the award. Teaching Fellowships support faculty members, at all career levels, wishing to create and implement significantly revised or wholly new university courses. These awards of $10,000 will support the rethinking and reframing of courses in the humanities and social sciences that directly relate to the whole or part of Eurasia. Courses must be wholly new, or substantial revisions of a course previously taught. A strong candidate will have a proven track record of research and teaching in his/her field of Eurasian studies. Fellowships are particularly appropriate for faculty with heavy teaching loads and with proven desires to push the teaching of Eurasian studies in innovative directions and to incorporate contemporary research and thinking on Eurasian studies into new teaching curricula for use in classrooms.
The SSRC invites proposals that have an interdisciplinary or comparative
outlook, encompass a diverse range of literatures and/or source
media (including audio, video, and Web content), and make appropriate
use of various pedagogical approaches. Proposals that target unique
and important student audiences, provide a substantial addition
or significantly diversify existing departmental and/or university
curricula, or that otherwise fill an important niche or fulfill
an instructional gap are especially encouraged URL:
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/eurasia/postdoctoral_fellowships/ (Postdoctoral Research Fellowships)
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