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Announcements from the Office of University Research Services Towson Academy
of Scholars Accepting Applications The Towson Academy of Scholars is pleased to announce that it will be accepting applications for the academic year 2006-2007. All full time faculty members up to the rank of Assistant Professor or Librarian I and II who have been at Towson three years or less are eligible to apply. The purpose of the Academy is to gather senior-mentors with junior faculty members in a seminar setting that will give the latter an opportunity to share their research projects, reflective thinking essays, or portions of their dissertations under revision. The research, thought-analyses, or revisions will be undertaken during the year preceding presentation with support provided by the Towson Academy of Scholars. A committee of senior faculty members will oversee this initiative, and will serve as a review panel to select participating scholars. Applications may be blind reviewed by external reviewers. The committee will select three scholars from applications submitted from across the University community in the spring. For the academic year 2006-2007, junior scholars will receive $1,000 in cash from the University, $200 in books from Houghton Mifflin Publishers, and the use of a library carrel. In the spring of 2007, at a date to be arranged by the Committee, each of the junior scholars selected will present his or her seminar paper in the Towson Room, Cook Library. In consultation with the scholars, the committee will arrange for one or two authorities in their fields to serve as discussants. Faculty members who are selected to be Towson Scholars will be encouraged to invite their students to their presentations. Seminars are open to the University community, and junior faculty will be required to make their papers available upon request. While papers, essays, and/or chapters may reflect the academic discourse of their discipline, the oral presentations must communicate broadly to the university community. URL: http://www.towson.edu/ours
Annual Student Research and Scholarship Expo Agency: Towson
University College of Graduate Studies and Research Application guidelines and materials are now available for the
2006 Student Research and Scholarship Expo, to be held Wednesday,
April 26, 2006 in the University Union. The Expo, which showcases
scholarly work by TU undergraduate and graduate students, encompasses
scholarly activity of merit in any field. Students from all departments
are encouraged to present, and presentations may be in the form
of poster sessions, oral presentations, exhibitions of artwork,
performances, demonstrations, or readings. Students must have the
support of a faculty member to apply. Faculty members are encouraged
to recommend the Expo to students they are mentoring, or those who
display unusual aptitude in the subject area. URL: http://www.towson.edu/ours Institutional, University-Wide, or Cross-Disciplinary Opportunity Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy Agency: National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health (NIH), through the "Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy" funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by its Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, seeks applications for empirical research on health literacy concepts and theory as they relate to the NIH public health goal of improving health outcomes for persons with medical and behavioral disorders and conditions. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and National Institutes of Health are participating in this FOA, through the following components: Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Aging, National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of Mental Health, and National Library of Medicine. This FOA invites applications to develop research on health literacy in general areas that include, but are not limited to:
Applications should be relevant to both the objectives of this FOA and to at least one of the participating Institute's general research interests. Before preparing an application, researchers are strongly encouraged to both review the general research interests of the participating Institutes, and to contact program staff of the relevant Institutes to discuss the proposed research. This FOA will use the NIH Small Research Grant (R03) award mechanism and runs in parallel with a FOA of identical scientific scope that utilizes the Research Project Grant (R01) mechanism. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. The R03 is intended to support small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. A project period of up to two years and a budget for direct costs of up to $50,000 per year for a maximum of $100,000 direct costs over a two-year project period may be requested for this mechanism. The earliest anticipated project start date is July 2007. URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-132.html#SectionIV3A
Agency: NASD Investor Education Foundation The NASD Investor Education Foundation General Grant Program funds research and/or educational or combined research and education projects to improve investor education and protection in the United States. The Foundation is especially interested in projects that:
Funding for educational projects is for programs that respond to an unmet investor education or protection need for the target audience. Successful education projects will be highly practical for serving large numbers of persons and sustainable beyond the term of grant funding. Applicants should develop viable outreach plans to attract and reach the target audience. In addition, applicants are encouraged to collaborate and partner with organizations that can assist in distributing project deliverables. Combined research and educational programs should lead with a research element and follow with a high-impact investor education or protection project based on the research results. There is no set minimum or maximum grant amount. Las year grants ranged from $103,300 to $487,342, and the average grant award was approximately $233,614. Projects should be completed within 18-24 months. Proposals are being accepted up to the May 15 deadline. The Foundation will hold conference calls on March 21 and April 20 to answer general questions about this program. Prospective applicants are encouraged to participate in one of the calls. Detailed information about call times and the registration process can be found at the website listed below. URL: www.nasdfoundation.org/general06.asp
College Preparation Intervention Program Agency: Maryland Higher Education Commission The purpose of the Maryland Higher Education Commission College Preparation Intervention Program is to raise the level of academic preparedness of economically and environmentally disadvantaged students to enable them to attend and succeed in college. This program was established to serve as part of the match required for the Maryland State Department of Education's (MSDE) and the Maryland Higher Education Commission's (MHEC) successful proposal to obtain a federal "Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs" (GEAR UP) state grant. GEAR UP follows students from middle school through high school graduation, providing information, encouragement, and academic enhancement and remediation. For its 2005 GEAR UP grant, MSDE has identified ten middle schools as GEAR UP schools at six Maryland GEAR UP sites. These schools are:
The current GEAR UP state grant focuses on mathematics. All proposed CIPIP projects should be designed to help meet the following Maryland GEAR UP objectives and outcomes:
The statutory purpose of CPIP is to raise the level of academic preparedness of economically and environmentally disadvantaged students to enable them to attend and succeed in college. This purpose dovetails with the goals and objectives of GEAR UP. As a matching program for GEAR UP, CPIP projects must provide activities that:
Activities may include summer academies; Saturday academic sessions; campus-based hands-on mathematics and science activities; professional development for GEAR UP teachers; college admissions and financial aid workshops; tutoring by college students; and career exploration activities that help students make the connection high school courses, college choices, and jobs. Students will be rising eighth grader this year of the new GEAR UP grant. MHEC anticipates awarding six to eight grants in the range of $80,000 to $125,000. Larger awards may be made for projects that serve especially large numbers of students or schools or that otherwise demonstrate exceptional breadth or depth. The grant period will be fifteen months (June 1, 2006 through August 31, 2007). MHEC will hold a CPIP technical assistance meeting on Friday, March 24, 2006 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Gateway Business and Technology Training Center, Room 4, in Columbia, Maryland (6751 Columbia Gateway Drive). Individuals wishing to attend should register with MHEC by March 22, 2006 (by calling or emailing Stephanie Brown, telephone 410-260-3207, email sbrown@mhec.state.md.us). The office of University Research Services would be happy to register interested faculty members and coordinate transportation, and will also send a representative to the meeting and share its notes on the presentation. Please contact us at 4-2236 or ours@towson.edu if you'd like to attend this meeting or discuss a proposal idea. URL: http://www.mhec.state.md.us/Grants/CollegePreparationInterventionProgram/CPIP.asp
Agency: National Science Foundation Projects funded under the National Science Foundation (NSF) CI-TEAM program are intended to prepare current and future generations of scientists, engineers, and educators to use, support, deploy, develop, and design cyberifrastructure as well as foster inclusion in cyberinfrastructure activities of diverse groups of people and organizations, with emphasis on traditionally underrepresented groups. NSF will fund two types of CI-TEAM projects: Demonstration Projects and Implementation Projects. Project teams must be multidisciplinary with expertise in computer science, social science or education complementing disciplinary expertise. In order to have significant impact, dissemination and outreach, projects should build on strong science and engineering-focused partnerships among diverse organizations such as K-20 academic institutions, not-for-profit organizations (for example, professional societies and museums), or federal, state, and local government agencies or organizations. Projects should focus on one or more cyberinfrastructre-related science and engineering workforce dimensions: training, education, advancement, and mentoring. Demonstration Project proposals are expected to carry out and test the feasibility and effectiveness of preliminary, exploratory activities aimed at preparing a diverse science and engineering workforce with cyberinfrastructure knowledge and skills. New, multidisciplinary team collaborations and partnerships are encouraged. Project designs could show promise for future integration with or evolution into an Implementation Project. NSF is also encouraging projects with outcomes that may be transferred across disciplines. Implementation Project proposals are larger in scale and expand, complement, or otherwise leverage previously tested and assessed activities with potential for successful application in the CI-TEAM program. The multidisciplinary project team should have some history of prior collaboration with demonstrated track records. Projects should build on prior experience with tried-and-true activities, teams or tools and are expected to provide sustainable learning and workforce development activities that complement ongoing NSF investment in cyberinfrasturcutre. Projects should assure an increase in the number and diversity of researchers, educators and students trained to utilize, integrate, and support cyberinfrastructure systems and tools in their research and education activities. They also must be implemented over multiple scales or across multiple disciplines to show continued prospects for replicability and scalability to a national level. Examples of the kinds of Demonstration or Implementation projects that might be proposed include, but are not limited to, the following:
An organization may submit only one proposal, either Demonstration or Implementation, as the lead organization. However, there is no limit to the number of proposals on which an organization may appear as a subawardee or non-lead organization. NSF anticipates making 8 to 16 Demonstration Project awards. Funding will be up to $250,000 for 1 to 2 years. The agency expects to make 6 to 8 Implementation Project awards of up to $1,000,000 for projects of 2 to 3 years in duration. URL: www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06548/nsf06548.htm
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